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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />ADRIE "drie@adriesilva.com> <br />Sent: <br />Saturday, March 28, 2020 8:46 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />Re: DEAR COUNCIL <br />How can I help you help our city? Do you have shelters in place? Do our people need something? Food, towels, <br />etc <br />On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 10:42 PM ADRIE <adrie ,adriesilya,com> wrote: <br />I AM ADRIANA SILVA AND I LIVE ON CHESTNUT AVENUE BY BRISTOL AND FIRST <br />STREET, <br />I HAVE BEEN STAYING SAFE INSIDE MY HOME BUT THIS NIGHT I WENT OUT TO MY <br />LOCAL 99 CENTS ONLY STORE. <br />I TOOK PRECAUTION AND WORE AN N95 MASK AND SURGICAL LATEX GLOVES. THESE <br />ARE ITEMS GIVEN TO MY FATHER IN THE SPRING OF LAST YEAR. <br />WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE STORE, EVERYTHING LOOKED NORMAL, AS IF WE DID NOT <br />HAVE A COVID-19 CRISIS. <br />I WALKED INSIDE AND THERE WERE LINES AT THE CASH REGISTER BUT THE PEOPLE <br />WERE NOT DISTANCING EACH OTHER, WHEN I LINED UP TO PAY, I HAD A YOUNG <br />WOMEN ALMOST PUSHING ME BECAUSE NO ONE BUT ME WAS PRACTICING SOCIAL <br />DISTANCING. <br />THE PEOPLE INCLUDING THE WORKERS WERE MOSTLY WOMEN AND LATINO. BOTH MALES <br />AND FEMALES WERE LATINO. THEIR AGES RANGED FROM 14 TO 38 OR SO. <br />PLEASE PLEASE, I BEG YOU NOW, MARCH 25, 2020, TO EDUCATE THE LATINOS OF <br />SANTA ANA. LIKE ONLY YOU CAN. HOW CAN YOU EDUCATE THEM? <br />—YOU SEND FLYERS IN THEIR LANGUAGE <br />—YOU SPEAK TO THE PARENTS, THE ADOLESCENTS AND THE ELDERLY <br />—YOU SEND A SOCIAL WORKER TO DISPURSE THESE FLYERS AND ANSWER QUESTIONS <br />THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT READY AT ALL, NOT MENTALLY NOT PHYSICAL FOR WHAT IS <br />TO COME AND WHAT IS HERE ALREADY. <br />I DO NOT KNOW WHY IT'S THIS LATE IN THE GAME/BATTLE AND YET LATINOS IN <br />SANTA ANA ARE SO ILL INFORMED OR MENTALLY ILL. <br />I AM ADRIANA SILVA, I AM AN AIR FORCE VETERAN. I GREW UP HERE IN SANTA ANA <br />AND GARDEN GROVE, CA. WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC AND SANTA ANA IS IN ANOTHER <br />PLANET RIGHT NOW, NOT THE COUNCIL, BUT WHAT I SEE IN THE STREETS, THE 711, <br />THE 99 CENTS ONLY STORE, ETC. <br />I WILL SEND THIS LETTER OUT TO YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK, <br />r <br />a <br />