LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 Here’s How You Crack NY Vaccine Scheduling It Takes Determination, Stick-With-It-Ness By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com If you’re like me, and I only mean that in the COVID-phobic sense, you have been trying to figure out how to get vaccinated. I have been on-line an average of an hour a day for about two weeks trying to find appointments. Then I heard on the news that the New York State vaccination site…
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LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG COVID Transforming Calls For Better Understanding There is a large amount of concern about this new strain of COVID that just Monday was confirmed to have reached New York State. At this time, I keep hearing that it is more contagious than the strain we are familiar with but not more lethal. What we don’t know, and what we will have to find out, is whether it is as sensitive to the approved vaccines as the…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG From Russia, With Love Unintentionally but inevitably, and catastrophically, the Russian National Figure Skating Team has carried out an experiment that lets the rest of the world see what happens when you expose super-elite athletes indiscriminately to the risk of contracting COVID-19. While not immediately fatal, it is not pretty and suggests what the long-term consequences of contracting the disease may be for other young people. According to the Dec. 17 edition of The Wall Street…
Trustees: Volunteers Could Assist With Snow Removal By CHRYSTAL SAVAGE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COOPERSTOWN – Following complaints that arose after last week’s snowstorm, the Cooperstown Village Board is once again debating snow removal from sidewalks in the village. “There has often been a suggestion that the village take more responsibility for snow removal on sidewalks,” said Trustee Cindy Falk. “I think that those of us that have been involved in this discussion in the past understand that that needs…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Vaccines, Part II: They Arrive I wish I had the time, stamina, and column inches to write an article daily. That’s how fast the news is coming. Since last week, Pfizer has begun distribution and vaccinations around the nation, the Moderna vaccine has been approved and it will start distribution by the time you read this, with inoculations going into arms probably by Thursday the 24th. The 350 Tier One healthcare workers from Bassett Healthcare will…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG Vaccines, Part I: Pfizer Into The Fray Many people have asked me to explain vaccines to them, and specifically the ones for COVID-19. They are most concerned with how they work, when they will be available, and if they will be safe. Hopefully, this column will help. The terms vaccine and vaccination derive from the Latin name Variola vaccinae, which means small pox of the cow. Vacca is Latin for cow. The term vaccine was first…
LETTER from CAROLE LaCHANCE Rotary Helps Fight Social Isolation To the Editor: Social isolation among seniors is a reality that has become an even greater concern since the onset of COVID-19. To minimize its effects on our older population, Cooperstown Senior Community Center, CSCC, took full advantage of the sunshine and warm temperatures summer and early autumn provided. Seniors, living in and outside of Cooperstown, have been gathering 1 – 3 p.m. Thursdays since the end of July on the…
LETTER from RICHARD STERNBERG STERNBERG: Doctor In The House (Isolated) Like many of us this Thanksgiving, my family had a very truncated get together and dinner. My daughter visited from Annapolis, Md. She had been self-isolating, had rarely gone out, always took precautions, and was tested the week before she decided to come visit. We decided that the risk of being infected by her was very, very minimal after all of these precautions, and invited her. I myself have been…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 One Word Capture Mood: Sad The following were some of the definitions of the word “sad” from dictionary.com. “Affected by unhappiness or grief; sorrowful or mournful, expressive of or characterized by sorrow, causing sorrow; somber, dark, or dull; drab; deplorably bad, sorry.” Thesauraus.com lists 46 synonyms for sad. And I add an additional from other sources, pathetic. The following story is sad by almost all of these. This was originally reported by CNN. Jodi…
LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 A New Hope On COVID-19 First the good news. Joe Biden has announced his plan for dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. It will include a coordinated national plan of attack and he will be ready on Day 1, Jan. 20, 2021 to implement it. He has already announced his pandemic transition team. Now the bad news. One, Mitch McConnell has said the same thing about Biden that he said about President Obama in 2008,…