LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Tragedy Proves COVID No Hoax I graduated from the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine in 1978. Adeline Fagan graduated from the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine in 2019. She started a residency program in obstetrics and gynecology in Houston. She died from COVID-19 Saturday, Sept. 19, age 28. She most likely became infected working a shift in her hospital’s emergency room in the late spring. From what I’ve read,…
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GUEST COLUMN Man Socks Rooster Last late fall, I was getting ready to box up my chickens and take them to Knight’s auction in West Winfield so that we would be free to spend some time in sunny Florida. My neighbor, Jim, who lives across the road, surprised me when he offered to keep my birds in his coop for the winter. “Why would you want to do that?” I asked. “Body heat,” was Jim’s answer. “The more chickens in…
GUEST COLUMN More Than Ever, People Need Guns “On every question of construction (of the Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit of the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” Thomas Jefferson • Clearly among too many politicians, arrogant academia, and New York State itself, there is an…
RUTH BADER GINSBURG AT GLIMMERGLASS ‘These Dark Archangels, Will They Be Conquered?’ As many people may know, the Young Artist Program at the Glimmerglass Festival is an integral part of our work. One of our recent alumni, Alexandria Shiner (last seen as Bertha in the Barber of Seville 2018), went on to become part of the Cafritz Young Artist Program at the Washington National Opera and to win the first prize of the Met auditions. • A few weeks before…
GUEST COLUMN from TERRY BERKSON Whistling Woodchucks! Back Again Not that they ever left. They just take a long winter nap while their heartbeat slows from 80 to an incredible five beats per minute and their body temperature drops from 99 to 37 degrees. Punxsutawney Phil projects a good productive image with his weather predictions but Digger Dan, the name I give to the critter whose been tunneling into my barn every year, is another story. One morning last spring,…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 We’re Getting Closer To A COVID-19 Vaccine. Then What? It appears that we are getting closer to the development of vaccines for COVID-19. There have been some missteps in the process, including the development of an unexplained illness in one participant in the U.K. study of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine. This required a halt to the study for about a week while the data was being reviewed. The study is progressing again at this time.…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER Non-Violence Worked For Revered Trio Does anyone remember how Mahatma Gandhi changed the world? How a slight Indian man, a lawyer who never carried a weapon, defeated the strongest empire in the world and rewrote the future of billions of people? Does anyone remember how Martin Luther King changed the world? How a Black Southern Baptist preacher, a man who never carried a weapon, changed two centuries of oppression of Black Americans and opened new…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID Studies Seek Vaccine, But Treatments Too There has been a great deal of information both published and awaiting publication in the scientific literature about COVID-19. There’s so much literature it’s sometimes difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff, determining how accurate information may be no matter how well-meaning the researchers. In the treatment of COVID-19. There are no fully FDA-approved medications or treatment protocols. So far, the FDA has released EUAs (emergency use…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Even Now, Is Enough Being Done At SUNY? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com “Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” wrote George Santayana. What about the recent history of the spread of COVID-19 and the attempted reopening of colleges was so difficult for SUNY Oneonta to learn? How can you trust 6,000 adolescents and very young adults to do what is correct when set free after being…
DR. WHELAN’S BOOK PUBLISHED What Happened To Freddie Gray? Editor’s Note: Here are excerpts from Dr. Mary Anne Whelan’s just-published “Freddie’s Last Ride,” the retired Bassett Hospital neurologist’s assessment of the controversial case of a black teenager in Baltimore who died in police custody in 2015. It is available through www.amazon.com. April 12, 2015, … police saw a young black man, Freddie Gray, and without provocation other than his identity, chased him when he ran and pinned him when he…
