LETTER from MONICA CALZOLARI In Crisis, Your Newspapers Are Rising To The Challenge To the Editor: I read your April 2-3 print edition cover to cover and I learned a lot of valuable information I have not seen reported anywhere else. The service you provide to our community is vital! I know that the newspaper industry has been struggling financially for over a decade. I am so impressed that you were proactive and built a following on www.AllOTSEGO.com that attracts…
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LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A Pearl Harbor Moment, Plus By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com Two weeks ago, Surgeon General Jerome Adams made comments that last week would be a Pearl Harbor moment in the battle against COVID-19. Others picked up on the statement. I believe the President used that phrase at one point in a press conference. Others are calling this a 9/11 moment. This is nothing of the sort and is probably an insult to…
LETTER from CHIP NORTHRUP While New York City Dithered, San Antonio Saw Threat, Responded To the Editor: In Texas, a city or county can issue and enforce stay-at-home health orders without the state’s permission. Some West Texas counties have prohibited out-of-county residents from staying in the county overnight, the landlords are fined $1,000 a day. In New York, only the state can issue such sweeping health directives, no such balkanization is allowed. This centralization of authority proved to be fatal…
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,…
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…
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LETTER from FRANK WINKLER Trump Undid What Obama Did, Including Pandemic Responders To the Editor: Mike Zagata (column, 3/26-27) wants to defend President Trump and pass the blame to others on ending the Pandemic Response Team. This (like everything else President Obama did), Trump has gone out of his way to destroy. Trump has never accepted any responsibility for actions under his control. The Trump administration fired the U.S. Pandemic Response Team in 2018 to cut costs. As editor do…
EASTER SUNDAY SPECIAL Resurrection Guides Pastors’ Reflections On The Coronavirus Let Emergency’s Lessons Strengthen Our Humanity This disease has not been sent as a punishment from God. The sacred scriptures have shown us repeatedly that God, while not causing an event, can use an event to teach us, to bring us closer to God’s very self that we might experience God’s mercy and compassion. And might this lesson be found in a curious parallel in Matthew’s Passion? There are two…
