Mission

The mission of the Covid Response Network is to do what we can as concerned people to make a broad, deep, and effective response to the threats of COVID-19. Our pilot region is the Mendocino Coast of California.

Goals

1. Halt the spread of COVID-19
   • by stimulating everyone to wear masks, follow social distancing and wash hands extra frequently, and 
   • developing respectful and effective TTTQI (Testing, Tracing, Treatment, Quarantine, and Isolation) protocols.
2. Build the Network
   • so that existing efforts can share each other’s work, and achieve Goal #1;
   • and so we can communicate and coordinate for rapid, effective responses to whatever may arise.
3. Build our Resilience 
   • by defining scenarios and preparing for them with appropriate supplies, crops, infrastructure, strategies, and teams. 
   • Resilience is the ability to bounce-back from multiple, simultaneous impacts including COVID-19, rising unemployment, supply chain shortages in food and materials, public safety power shutoffs, fires, earthquakes, and more. 

Vision

We envision a diverse, resilient community here on the Coast that is able to keep the number of COVID-19 cases down throughout the Fall and Winter to limit the number of wounded and dead, while working within the  limited hospital resources available (~2 ventilators, 12 ICU beds, for 20,000 people). After the COVID-19 threat is defeated, we plan to transition to a new “CRN” – the Community Resilience Network -to address other threatening situations as they may occur in coming years.

Principles and Philosophy

• We can choose to have both fiscal solvency and public health.  Without public health, we cannot have fiscal solvency.  We need to find ways to eradicate the virus, while at the same time, provide an adequate financial social net.
• Collaboration with other organizations with overlapping missions and goals is essential.
• Clear communication with and among all segments of the local community is critical.
• Our primary strategy is to assist others, such as the Public Health Department, our hospital, the clinics, and the sheriff, in achieving our shared mission.