'We all have to help each other,' Matthew Fermin, owner of East Harlem restaurant Santiago's Beer Garden, told Newsweek after delivering oranges to hospital workers across New York.
And yet, in the midst of such unfortunate medical and economic chaos, there are still some people making an effort to not only flatten the curve but do some good while they're at it. Neighbors have gone out of their way to deliver groceries to the immune-compromised and elderly. Residents in major cities have dropped everything to applaud essential workers as they make their way to and from their jobs.
"I saw this video of big refrigerators outside of hospitals, nurses were crying, everybody looked stressed and scared," Fermin, 29, told."A few days before I bought boxes of oranges for me and my family. I figured that the people that really need it and aren't thinking about getting [vitamin C] right now are nurses and doctors, and they're the ones in the hospital.
that showed signs of vitamin C in oranges reducing the risks of respiratory diseases, lowering cholesterol, and improving heart health.in East Harlem, delivered boxes of oranges and strawberries to a number of hospitals, clinics and a police precinct in Manhattan and the Bronx just before New York was issued a shelter-in-place order in response to the coronavirus.
Fermin's act of kindness came shortly after he decided to close the doors of his business, which has become a neighborhood staple for delicious Dominican food in the two years since it opened. Although the restaurant was operating amid the outbreak, the New York native said that he felt it was his duty to ensure that his workers--including a few chefs who are well over 50--were staying safe at home.
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