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Lately, I find myself thinking about those generations past and especially the one dubbed the “greatest.”
How would they deal with this moment we’re in?
I think it’s a safe bet that many would step up and pitch in to support the effort.
That’s what much of a generation did in the 1940s. And I am betting on their descendants, in this 2022 version of Oneonta, doing that again.
This time, it’s not the forces of an army that threaten us, but the gloomy reality of a post-pandemic world. Where a decades-long demographic shift — an exodus from the city, the town, the county, the state, and the northeast — coupled with an equally challenging worker shortage, has put us very much at risk.
