LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
Ask Your Local
Governments:
Take Care Of Us
By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
On Sunday, a friend of mine was talking to a family from South Carolina. They told him how bad it was down there now and how great it was up here and how we had beaten the virus.
They talked for a while, then walked away down Main Street. None of them were wearing masks, nor knew if they had the disease and could be spreading it. Nor had they quarantined for two weeks after arriving in New York. Now multiply this by a hundred.
Locally we did a great job of containing COVID-19. We went weeks without a case until recently a few cases popped up. Effectively the whole area had quarantined itself.
Recently there were cases. They had to be coming from the outside. And they will keep on coming.
There really is only one way to beat this disease and that is to prevent it from establishing itself. We have to keep it out.
If we can’t control the SARS-CoV-2 virus, it will run through the entire population, and locally we have a population which has a high percentage of people with risk factors.
