LIFE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 What’s All This Testing About? By RICHARD STERNBERG • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com At his Sunday, April 19, press conference, Governor Cuomo reported his 22-year-old daughter had asked him, “What’s all this testing about?” He seemed to be a little surprised by the question. He said he thought he was explaining this well during his previous press conferences but realized he had not been getting his points across to everybody. He went over this again.…
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ALBANY PERSPECTIVE On Mend, Seward Turns Sights On Coronavirus I want to start this week’s column with a heartfelt THANK YOU to all who have reached out to me and my wife Cindy over the past few weeks as we both battled the Novel Coronavirus. Your well wishes and prayers meant a great deal and gave us both strength during our fight against this sinister virus. As the pandemic continues there are so many on the front lines that are…
Building A Foundation – Together Community Foundation Takes Aim At COVID-19 By HARRY LEVINE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com COVID-19 has changed our world. Our community faces dire health and economic shocks that have disrupted our way of life and will continue to affect us for the foreseeable future. The Community Foundation of Otsego County was created in 2019 with the mission of improving the quality of life for all the Otsego County area. We were about to publicly announce our…
WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER It Isn’t All Gloom And Doom By LARRY BENNETT • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com The title of this column is, “We are all in this together.” It’s a statement of a simple reality, but it’s also a dream about working together that I wish to be true for everyone – from our town, to our state, to our nation, to our world. Now that the world is all in this together with the COVID-19 nightmare, it’s…
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…
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.…
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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…
THE VIEW FROM WEST DAVENPORT Oil Embargo’s Lesson Forgotten In 1973, the Organization for the Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC) from the Middle East imposed an oil embargo on the United States. It had a crippling impact on our economy and on our way of life because we didn’t produce enough energy in this country to meet the demand. People waited in line for hours to buy a few gallons of gasoline and tempers flared. The same impact was felt on…
