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From YouTube: Expanding Food Access Announcement - 2/1/22
Description
Mayor Wu will shop at Daily Table in Roxbury, followed by an announcement regarding food access. She will be joined by Daily Table’s Chief Operating Officer Michael Malmberg and Store Manager Rose Marsan.
A
Happy
lunar
new
year,
happy
first
day
of
black
history
month
as
well.
I
am
so
excited
to
be
here
at
daily
table
with
our
partners
in
the
nonprofit
space
and
with
our
amazing
district
councilor
tanya
fernandez
anderson,
to
celebrate
some
big
news
that
they
have
recently
secured
approval
to
make
life
even
easier
to
access
nutritious,
affordable
food.
So
I'm
going
to
pass
it
over
to
michael
and
rose
from
daily
table
to
tell
us
what
the
news
is.
B
B
It's
an
important
step
for
us,
particularly
for
our
mission
of
making
healthy
food
affordable
to
all
particularly
communities
that
need
the
support
for
the
past
two
years.
You
know:
we've
seen
skyrocketing
rates
of
food
insecurity,
and
this
is
one
additional
way
that
we'll
be
able
to
increase
access
and
equity
to
communities
who
need
it
most.
C
Good
good
morning,
we'll
say
thank
you
to
you
mayor
who
for
coming,
so
we
are
so
excited
to
launch
this
program
so
to
help
people
to
afford
more
healthy
food,
so
now
they
can
order
their
food
online
and
pay
with
the
ebt
card.
So
we
are
really
excited
for
this
launch
and
we
can't
wait
to
have
them
ordering
and
help
the
community.
Thank
you.
D
Okay,
so
I
think
I'll
leave
the
spanish
to
mr
mayor
wu.
I'm
super
excited
and
so
happy
to
be
able
to
have
this
program
here
daily
table,
as
we
know,
is
an
amazing
program,
and
we
like
to
do
more
of
this.
Hopefully
we
can
expand,
create
more
access,
more
ways
to
completely
do
away
with
food
insecurities
in
our
community
extremely
important.
Maybe
next
we're
collaborating
with
gyms
and
our
medical
providers,
our
mental
health
providers
and
create
this
ecosystem
of
holistic
life
in
our
community.
Thank
you.
So
much.
A
I'm
so
excited
I
did.
A
little
shopping
earlier
rose
was
helping
guide
me
as
we
filled
one
of
the
online
orders
that
have
already
come
in.
I'm
told
that
since
the
approvals
were
given
and
again,
this
is
a
big
deal,
because
right
now,
the
approvals
to
use
snap
benefits
for
online
purchases,
making
life
that
much
easier
and
just
recognizing
how
hard
it
is
for
especially
working
parents,
working
families
with
kids
to
be
balancing
everything.
A
That
barrier
has
been
taken
down
previously
only
for
the
very
very
large
players,
the
online
amazons
and
and
other
players
instacart,
and
so
to
have
one
of
our
own
local
non-profits,
able
to
provide
the
service
and
continue
growing
throughout
the
city.
Bringing
that
access
to
every
single
resident
is
a
wonderful,
wonderful
opportunity.
A
So
I'll
just
speak
a
little
bit
from
the
programmatic
side,
and
I
know
the
district
counselor
will
have
a
lot
to
say
as
well.
I
am
a
mom
with
two
kids,
I'm
a
working
mom.
I
have
many
many
a
night
where
it
just
feels
like
you
can't
juggle
everything
and
to
be
able
to
have
this
option
available
for
so
many
of
our
families
who
have
been
bearing
the
burdens
of
this
pandemic,
who
already
face
such
tight
requirements
and
burdens
of
of
living
in
an
even
more
expensive
city.
A
The
city's
office
did
provide
a
bit
of
support
with
grants
to
help
subsidize
the
delivery
part,
because
the
requirements
around
snap
are
very,
very
strict
that
it
can
only
be
used
for
the
food
itself
and
not
for
delivery,
not
for
bags
or
anything
like
that,
as
I've
learned
and
so
to
be
able
to
draw
in
other
partners
and
show
that
this
is
here,
it's
accessible
and
the
city
can
help
support
it.
A
little
bit.
D
This
thank
you
so
much
for
that
question.
The
reason
why
such
an
important
question
is
because
I
think
that
there
are
so
many
stereotypes
to
that
right,
so
people
already
have
their
presumptions
about
how
or
what
is
luxurious
for
low-income
families.
So
imagine
a
family
with
you
know
maybe
two
or
three
children
and
already
a
pre-existing
some
kind
of
medical
condition
in
the
middle
of
a
pandemic
and
then
a
snowstorm,
a
blizzard
and
you
have
no
car.
Maybe
you
do
it's
a
hooptie
and
it
doesn't
work
anymore
right.
D
So
then
you
have
to
get
your
kids
to
school,
but
one
bus
is
late
and
then
the
other
kid
might
be
sick,
you're
going
to
the
hospital
by
the
time
you
get
home.
You've
had
no
time
to
provide.
So
you
eventually
right.
Inevitably
we
spend
on
fast
foods
right,
and
so
we
have
all
of
these
pre-existing
issues.
On
top
of
that
are
stressors,
there's
no
place
anywhere
for
us
to
decompress,
but
then
you
can't
provide
healthy
meal
for
your
child
right.
This
allows
an
option
for
at
least
to
provide
healthy
access
right.
D
So
then
it's
not
luxurious.
Then
it's
a
necessity.
It's
equitably
planning
right,
so
I
hope
that
folks
can
open
up
their
minds
to
this
program
and
that
we
can
expand
on
it
and
be
able
to
think
of
other
in
in
the
perspective
of
the
low-income
family.
What
the
needs
are,
as
opposed
to
the
opposite.
Thank
you.
D
Absolutely
I
mean
I'll
tell
you
a
little
short
story
right
so
I
live.
I
tell
people,
I
tell
you
guys,
like
all
the
time
like
I
lived
in
roxbury
in
academy
homes.
I
was
an
immigrant,
no
no
green
card
right.
So
I
get
to
these
projects
and
there's
no,
you
know
there's
nobody
around,
but
me
and
my
mom
and
then
I
work
enough.
Save
money
bring
my
brother
and
sister
over
from
africa.
D
We
get
here
and
there's
no
food
right,
so
the
feeling
of
always
being
excluded
and
not
having
my
brother
would
come
into
the
house
to
this
day.
He'll
come
and
visit,
he'll
say:
hey
where's,
the
tea
and
hot
dog.
The
joke
is
that
the
last
thing
in
your
hot
dog
is
freeze
burn.
Your
in
your
fridge
is
freeze,
burn
raw
hot
dogs
and
a
tea
bag
that
always
lasts
in
the
cabinets
right.
So
with
that,
you
know
what
I
mean
you.
D
You
know
that
you
haven't
been
included
because
the
programs
and
your
society
and
and
you
vicariously,
internalize
all
of
this
stuff-
you
feel
like
you're,
not
worth
it.
My
government
doesn't
care
about
me.
My
government
doesn't
include
me,
and
so
therefore
you
act
as
though
this
is
a
reality,
and
so
we
create
this
dual
personality.
You
know,
baldwin
talked
a
lot
about
it
right
in
terms
of
quote
switching
and
how
we
perform
in
our
society
so
to
for
us
to
be
included
for
the
first
time
for
us
to
have
real
conversations.
D
Every
policy
that
comes
out
that
I
feel
is
equitable.
I'm
going
to
support
my
mayor
and
I'm
going
to
be
president,
I'm
going
to
be
very
vocal
and
very
strong
in
that
position
if
it
means
that
we're
pushing
forward
to
include
all
those
who
haven't
been
included,
you're
going
to
see
me
and
we're
going
to
continue
to
fight-
and
I
appreciate
you
being
here
every
single
time
so
that
we
can
create.
D
A
It's
been,
it
feels
like
yesterday
in
some
ways,
but
it's
also
been
an
eternity.
Today
is
the
first
day
of
lunar
new
year,
and
I
remember
now
two
years
ago,
when
we
already
started
to
see
the
impacts
of
the
pandemic
and
of
coba
19,
even
before
the
virus
was
really
circulating
in
the
community
in
boston.
We
saw
the
impact
on
businesses,
we
saw
the
fear
and
the
sense
of
anxiety
and
isolation
that
was
already
starting,
and
so
it's
been
a
long
long.
A
Two
years
we
have
a
lot
of
work
to
do
as
the
counselor
was
just
saying.
There
are
so
many
steps
we
need
to
take
to
continue
bringing
equity
and
to
bring
resources
and
to
bring
opportunity
to
our
communities
and
really
the
issues
over
the
last
two
years
are
are
not
new
right.
The
virus
is
ever-evolving
and
we
are
always
looking
to
stay
on
top
of
that
and
stay
ahead
of
the
curve.
B
A
E
Shortly
done
two
years
afterwards,
but
there
are
a
lot
of
places
that
are
saying
a
lot
of
towns
and
cities
that
are
saying
we're
a
lot
better
off.
We
have
vaccines.
People
are
not
getting
as
sick.
The
numbers
of
hospitalizations
are
going
down.
So
do
you
have
any
plans
to
roll
back
mass
mandates
or
vaccine
mandates
in
the
near
future?
We're.
A
In
constant
communication
and
with
all
of
our
hospital
partners
to
very
carefully
watch
those
hospitalization
rates
and
our
boston,
public
health
commission
has
been
working
on
metrics
as
we
understand
community
positivity
and
where
we
may
be
either
plateauing
or
coming
down
quickly
and
so
covid
will
be
around
for
a
while.
Even
after
we
are
through
this
surge.
We
know
it
is
likely
that
next
fall
next
winter.
There
likely
will
be
another
surge,
but
in
the
meantime,
as
we're
tracking
these
numbers,
these
protections
are
not
permanent.
A
As
we
think
about
the
need
and
the
urgency
for
strong
protections
from
the
pandemic,
there
are
a
couple
metrics
that
help
us
understand
where
we
are
for,
of
course,
there's
community
positivity
and
we
peaked
at
a
little
over
32
percent.
We're
now
down
to,
I
believe,
somewhere
around
18
percent.
Although
I'd
have
to
check
with
dr
ojuku
to
be
sure
until
we've
see,
we've
been
seeing
that
come
down
in
recent
weeks,
we're
also
looking
at
hospitalization
rates
and
we're
looking
at
vaccination
rates
across
the
entire.
A
So
it's
you
know,
the
virus
keeps
changing
and
the
five
four
percent
five
percent
threshold
was
around
delta,
where
it
was
a
more
dangerous
illness.
If,
if
you
are
sick
with
delta
but
less
contagious,
and
so
when
omicron
was
up
to
10
times
more
contagious
but
tended
to
be
on
average,
more
mild
the
threat.
You
know
we
never
imagined
under
delta
that
we
would
ever
be
talking
about
30
or
above
and
so
we're
trying
to
adjust
based
on
current
situations
and
also
anticipate
the
continued
variance
that
may
come.