LETTER from M.A. WHELAN With Crisis, We See World, And Dump, With Fresh Eyes To the Editor: Given our current situation, I find even a trip to the Northern Transfer Station – aka The Dump – an exciting occasion. I have looked at it with fresh eyes. And it’s not a pretty sight. OK, I know it’s a dump, but there are dumps and then there are dumps. This one is really awful. Fetid piles of trash, papers blowing everywhere,…
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MONEY MATTERS Bad Numbers, Good News By TOM MORGAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Let us call it The Finger-Pointers’ Dilemma. The toll of the virus has been less than what we were promised. The WuFlu medical experts assured us the sky was definitely falling this time. Maybe 2 million of us would croak. These experts convinced themselves of this. They convinced our public health officials. They convinced Big Media. All of them teamed up to convince our leaders. And so,…
FROM THE FRONT LINES Crisis Tells Us: Be Prepared! By CHARLES HYMAN • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com I want to thank Richard Sternberg for bringing up the difficult issue of triage. Fortunately, our area has not had to face this type of excruciating decision-making. But we may yet. His “elephant in the room” makes me think of yet another “elephant in the room,” and that is the one of advance directives and healthcare agents. April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day.…
EDITORIAL Reprinted From This Week’s Hometown Oneonta, Freeman’s Journal ANDREW CUOMO FOR PRESIDENT He’s Ready For White House; Americans Ready For Him Andrew Cuomo for president. Already, he seems presidential, never more than this past Monday in announcing his collaboration with five other Northeast governors in a multi-state council “to restore the economy and get people back to work.” Let’s do it. In the five weeks of New York State’s fight against the coronavirus invasion, the governor’s shown all the…
LIBBY’S BEST BETS Attend Earth Fest Online, Make Movie Poster, Much More By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Keep the little ones – and the big ones too! – from growing restless inside with a photo contest, Earth Fest, a family fun run and more. • Learn to save energy and reduce food waste, and do a scavenger hunt in your own backyard as part of OCCA’s annual Earth Fest, featuring new online webinars and activities every day! Saturday,…
Bassett Researcher Conducts Tests On 3 Anti-COVID Drugs Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir, Losartan Explored In Local Lab By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Bassett Healthcare Network is doing original research into finding a cure for COVID-19. “This is an opportunity to have residents of this area participate in a really rigorous and sound clinical trial to get these drugs with the most up-to-date and most recommended method,” said Dr. Daniel Frelich, an infectious disease specialist. The study, dubbed COVID…
UPDATE: SENATOR OUT OF ICU Seward Off Ventilator, On Road To Recovery MILFORD – As with everything since the coronavirus arrived in Otsego County, things moved quickly. When the last edition of this newspaper went to press on Tuesday, March 31, the news was state Sen. Jim Seward, R-Milford, and his wife, Cindy, had been stricken with COVID-19. It was announced the day before that the senator was being treated at Albany Medical Center, and Cindy was recuperating at their…
THIS WEEK’S NEWSPAPERS The Freeman’s Journal • Hometown Oneonta April 09-10, 2020 PHOTO OF THE WEEK CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Downstate Ventilator-Grab Stalls, Streck Says Off Ventilator, Senator Seward Now Out Of ICU County May Lose Equivalent Of 2/3 Of Tax Levy 3 Healthcare Workers Ill, Maybe Not Bassett’s Cooperstown Man’s Father Dies Of COVID-19 Front Line Profile: County IT Director Pokorny County’s Wheels Of Justice Turn – Virtually AllOTSEGO.COVID-19 Walkin’ Off The Coronavirus Blahs Desperate Calls Fast-Track Better Visor Libby’s List…
Streck Says Downstate Ventilator-Grab Stalls Deal: For Now, Only Inventory Required By ELIZABETH COOPER • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – National Guard troops will not be taking ventilators from upstate hospitals for use in downstate hospitals hit hard by the coronavirus. In an executive order signed Tuesday, April 7, Governor Cuomo backtracked on statements made Friday about issuing an executive order to requisition medical supplies, including 20 percent of unused ventilators, and having the National Guard help ensure compliance. Instead,…
BILL GATES ON FOX It’s Gotta End, Maybe By The End Of April…
