Original illustration for The Freeman’s Journal and Hometown Oneonta by Lianna Witherspoon Teachers: Our 2021 citizen(s) of the year Perhaps we can look at The Pandemic as some hideous, great equalizer: it spares no person, no profession, no walk of life. COVID demands that everyone, regardless of age or status, adapt to new or modified practices that are at best unpleasant and annoying, at worst, life-changing. Our health care professionals, caregivers, and first responders to whom we owe so much and, yes, our representatives at all levels of government (and their staff) whose lives have been upended for the past…