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November 19, 2020

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Stony Brook University Makes Mental Health a Priority BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Stony Brook University knew that students might have a hard time this year as they returned to school in the midst of a global pandemic. But for those who went home to participate in hybrid and virtual learning, they too could use someone to talk to. That’s when the school stepped up and implemented new programs to help kids on campus and at home, near and far, to give them resources and let them know everything will be OK. The Center for Prevention and Outreach is collaborating across different university departments to support students’ mental health, and is in the process of hiring more mental health staff. According to Danielle Merolla, a clinical psychologist and assistant director of mental health outreach and community-based interventions at CPO, her group offers ongoing support through various virtual and hybrid programming. With programs like Let’s Talk, a brief nonclinical conversation with a counselor, also workshops for coping and connection, balancing levels of care for self and others, and mindfulness, CPO provides suicide prevention bystander intervention training called Question, Persuade, Refer for students, faculty and staff. “We have trained over 800 students since the onset of COVID via virtual platforms,” Merolla said. CPO has also implemented three mental health peer education programs called Chill, Global Minds Alliance and Minds Matter that have been developed and created spaces for students to connect and receive information about how to care for themselves and each other, according to the assistant director. “The resources on campus are intended to support students’ overall health and well-being,” she said. “We want to make sure students know that they are not alone, and there are supports literally at their fingertips as many of our resources are accessible virtually.” According to a recent study with the Journal of Medical Internet Research, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the vulnerable population of student’s mental health into focus. The study interviewed 195 students at a large public U.S. university to understand the effects of the pandemic on their mental health. Of the students questioned, 71% indicated increased stress and anxiety due to the coronavirus crisis. Multiple stressors were identified that contributed to the increased levels of

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stress, anxiety and depressive thoughts among students. These included fears and worry about their own health and of their loved ones, with 91% reporting negative impacts due to the pandemic, and 89% reporting a difficulty in concentrating. “Now more than ever, we need to connect and feel a sense of belonging — and these peer spaces are intended to do just that,” Merolla said. With an unusual mix of students either staying on campus or learning from home, CPO decided that it needed to make all its resources available to students within Stony Brook and abroad. “We adapted all our programs to meet the virtual needs of our students,” said Smita Majumdar Das, a clinical psychologist at CPO. “We also adjusted programming time — offering training at 6 a.m., or later in the day such as after 9 p.m. — to accommodate our students who are dispersed all over the U.S and also in international locations.” Das said that at CPO, she has seen a five-fold increase in the utilization of virtual Let’s Talk since the onset of COVID-19 — not only domestically, but with their international students in France, India, Korea and Japan, as well. “CPO has worked with various employees to provide the needed training so they can be effectively present for our students and provide them the best support and care possible,” Das said. “It is impossible to pour from an empty jar, so as an organization we are extremely mindful to make sure staff feels cared for so that they can pay it forward to our students.” Another program called Healing Arts provides students with engagement and learning opportunities around the themes of creative expression, self-care, coping skills, social support and campus health and wellness resources. During the age of COVID, the program

looks a little different. “We adapted the Healing Arts model to create Healing Arts at Home in March,” said Christine Szaraz, coordinator of sexual violence prevention and outreach programs with CPO. “These programs offered livestreamed, interactive events through CPO’s social media, where students could participate in a virtual Healing Arts event using materials commonly found at home and engage with CPO staff and peer educators through the chat feature.” Szaraz added that CPO provided a variety of synchronous and asynchronous virtual Healing Arts events throughout the summer and over Stony Brook’s opening weekend. “Using Facebook and YouTube live forums, we engaged students with professional staff and

peer educators in conversations regarding coping and self-care in response to COVID, and in relation to their transition to the fall semester at SBU,” she said. And since school started, students are feeling the weight of the world on their shoulders. “Often, we hear and feel that everything feels out of control which can lead to feeling unmotivated and/or stuck,” Merolla said. “It is important to acknowledge we have many choices throughout our day and there is power in each and every choice.” “We must recognize we are stressed or struggling in order to choose to attend to what we may need,” she added. “The sooner you reach out the better. There is tremendous strength and resilience that comes from reaching out.”

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People Still Giving Thanks During COVID Despite New Restrictions

BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite new state restrictions on gatherings, some local small businesses are thankful this year for all the support they’ve received at the start of the holiday season. In pre-COVID times, a typical Thanksgiving dinner could host a dozen or even more people. But as of last week, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced new guidelines for the upcoming holidays, asking people to host small gatherings of 10 people or less. But small groups aren’t stopping people from spending time with their loved ones — just less of them this year. And with the tradition of family get-togethers comes the big Thanksgiving meal, full of sides, pies and of course, turkey. Cathy Raleigh-Boylan, co-owner of Raleigh’s Poultry Farm in Kings Park, said sales have actually increased this year, much to her surprise. “There are a lot of people asking for small or medium sized turkeys, but people are still having Thanksgiving,” she said. “Even if they’re not having a large gathering, they still want a big bird and just have a lot of leftovers.” The farm has been a staple to the Smithtown community for more than 61 years, she said, and usually people come from all over to pick up their Thanksgiving

Turkeys waddle around Raleigh’s Poultry Farm in Kings Park as customers stop by looking for potential Thanksgiving meals. Photo by Julianne Mosher

meats. This year is a little different, but not necessarily in a bad way. “With COVID, we’re realizing a lot more people are eating at home with families and teaching the young kids how to cook,” she said. “Generations are going back a bit. As bad as COVID was, a lot more family time came out of it.” Raleigh’s also sells pies, making it a one-stop shop for local Thanksgiving needs. TURKEYS AND PIES Continued on A9

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of the General Municipal Law is required to be held. DATED: November 10, 2020 BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS SELDEN FIRE DISTRICT TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN ATTEST: MARION WARREN Secretary 958 11/19 1x tmc CENTEREACH FIRE DISTRICT NOTICE TO BIDDERS FOR THE DEMOLITION OF EXISTING FIREHOUSE, CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PREFABRICATED POLE BARN FIRE SUBSTATION WITH SITE WORK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the Board of Fire Commissioners of the Centereach Fire District at the District office of the Centereach Fire District, 9 South Washington Avenue, Centereach, New York, until 11:00 a.m., time then in effect, on December 3, 2020. The bids will be publicly opened and read by the said Board of Fire Commissioners at 11:00 a.m. on December 3, 2020 for the demolition of the existing firehouse located 1152 Stony Brook Road, Lake Grove, New York, and the construction of a new prefabricated pole barn fire substation with site work as more fully described in the Specifications. Complete digital sets of Bidding Documents, Drawings and Specifications may be obtained as a download at CentereachFDbidPak@gmail.com beginning on November 19, 2020. A pre-bid walk through to visit the project site can be set up between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Please contact Michael Cooper, District Manager, Centereach Fire District, 9 South Washington Avenue, Centereach, New York 11720 (631) 588-8652 ext. 132 or by email at mcooper@ centereachfiredistrict.org to schedule. The Board of Fire Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or

Suffolk County Community College nursing students perform mandatory tests for students as they prepare to leave for the semester. Photo from SCCC video

SCCC Nursing Students Perform Student COVID-19 Testing

Suffolk County Community College nursing students are conducting COVID-19 testing on the college’s campuses as part of an innovative program that helps the College community as well as the students who earn required practical health care experience. The State University of New York Chancellor mandated COVID-19 testing of students who attend classes on the college’s campuses. “When mandatory testing became a reality, we were faced with a difﬁcult decision,” said Interim College President Louis Petrizzo, “[Either] divert staff from required duties or hire additional staff during a budget crisis. Associate Dean of the School of Nursing Cheryl Shaffer’s innovative solution not only saved the college money and resources but created an educational beneﬁt for nursing students, providing real world public health experience in the midst of a pandemic and doing it safely and smartly.” During a typical semester, nursing students would be deployed in hospitals throughout the county earning clinical hours by conducting patient assessments, checking vital signs and working with hospital professionals. Out of an

abundance of caution for students’ health and safety the nursing students were removed from in-hospital clinical practicums last spring. “We were very happy to answer the call to help Suffolk County Community College with the Chancellor’s mandate for COVID testing on our campuses,” Shaffer said. “The nursing students are performing the testing and learning about infection control, diagnostic testing, and documentation and it’s giving them some autonomy, that they would not have necessarily gotten in other clinical settings, to resolve issues, clinical reasoning and make some decisions to protect themselves and others from the spread of COVID,” she added. The College’s SUNY mandated pooled saliva testing program has collected 3,381 samples as of November 10 yielding two positive results. “This is a unique community health experience to be able to experience and be students during such an unprecedented time where we have a lot of challenges to overcome,” said nursing student Sarah Santiago. “It’s really great to be part of the solution and to help as a nursing student.”

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With Weeks of Counting Left, Some Races Closer than Others BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite Election Day being Nov. 3, local races have a week or more to settle on the final count. Suffolk County Republican Board of Elections commissioner, Nick LaLota, said via email they hope counting will be finished before Thanksgiving, Nov. 26, though there is no way to know when everything will be finalized. Republican candidates took leads in every local state and congressional race based on inperson ballots as the BOE started its absentee ballot count Nov. 16. Election experts have repeatedly said on average more Democrats used absentee ballots than Republicans did, though races will largely depend on unaffiliated voters. With that said, it will still be hard going for many Democrats in a few of the most hotly contested races. The U.S. Congressional District 1 race between U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) and his Democratic opponent Nancy Goroff still remains out, though Zeldin currently holds a 65,120-vote lead. There are still over 89,000 absentee ballots left in that race, but Goroff would need to reportedly take

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Transgender Awareness Month, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless BY JULIANNE MOSHER JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Her name was always Erica. Erica Forman, of Hauppauge, began to transition her gender from male to female in her late 20s. In 2012, she officially changed her name to Erica, one of two names her mother loved before she knew the sex of her baby 51 years ago. “This would have been my name,” Forman said. “Back then, you had to choose two names, so Erica was the name that was planned.” Forman chose to share her story to commemorate Transgender Awareness Month. November has been dedicated to the transgender community across the country in hopes of bringing awareness to a community that rarely has a voice. Nov. 20 is dedicated to solemnly remember the lives lost to anti-trans violence Transgender Day of Remembrance. According to GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media force, TDOR was started in 1999 by transgender advocate Gwendolyn Ann Smith as a vigil to honor the memory of Rita Hester, a transgender woman who was brutally killed in 1998 as a hate crime. The vigil, to take place Nov. 20, commemorates all the transgender people lost to violence since Hester’s death, something now called the annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. This year, more than 30 transgender people were killed in acts of violence as of Oct. 6, according to the nonprofit Human Rights Campaign. The campaign reported it has not seen such a level of violence at this point of the year since it began tracking that data in 2013. Forman said she knew something was

different as a child. At around age 12, she began experimenting when her mother wasn’t home. “I never really understood why I identified with girls’ things growing up, but I couldn’t really be open about it,” she said. “I spent a good amount of my time pre-transition trying to fit in.” In college she was in a fraternity. “I love those guys,” she said. “They’re my brothers and I’m their sister now.” David Kilmnick, president and chief executive officer of Long Island’s LGBT Network, said ac- ‘I’m lucky I live knowledging this month is important because it sheds here. There are light to issues that are rareparts of the country ly talked about. “We’re bringing visibility that I might go to, and awareness about the trans where I wouldn’t community and the issues our trans community faces,” wear this shirt.’ Erica Forman, of Hauppauge, shares her he said. “We join together as to be a voice for the transgender —Erica Forman story one community to stop hate community. Photo by Julianne Mosher against all groups, particumale at larly the issues of violence against trans women and women of color that are work, Forman decided to transition full-time in 2008. kept in the closet.” “At my job, I experienced a whole a lot of Kilmnick said the names of those who resistance,” she said. “HR confronted me and perished from hate crimes are rarely ever said. “This brings together our community to speak said, ‘You know, we hired a man.’” She said the job forced her to wear a tag with out and say whatever is on your mind — say what you want to see happen,” he said. “Say the names the male name she was assigned at birth, because of those who were murdered by hate violence, so she was still going through the lengthy and arduous process to legally become Erica on paper. we don’t have to say another name ever again.” “It was awful,” she said. “Eventually I was Transgender people often experience harassment in the day to day, such as in the able to hold on to it, and transition at the job, but it was a fight. There was a fight almost all the workplace. After more than a decade presenting as way. It’s one of those very difficult things that

we face, finding work as our authentic selves — there’s just a lot of bias, and people will find other reasons not to hire you.” Forman said she shared her story as an advocate to the trans community to let people out there know that things will be okay. “Would you rather be happy, or would you rather be miserable?” she said. “My days are filled with me wanting to be alive and wanting to do things, and now I’m able to interact with the world, like I never did before.” Along with the LGBT Network, The Transgender Resource Center of Long Island, based in Manorville, is a relatively new nonprofit established by members of the transgender, nonbinary and gender non-conforming community, their families, partners and allies. “We’ve helped hundreds of people,” said Ursula Nigro, the director of operations for the center. “Whether it’s a call for a resource, support groups, hooking people up together to go and rent spaces — we have a lot of homelessness in the trans community and it’s super difficult.” Nigro helped found the group four years ago when her wife started transitioning. Their goal was to create a space that will help the local transgender community, while educating businesses, schools and offices on inclusivity training. “Trans folks want to be treated with respect and dignity just like everyone else,” she said. “I think there’s a fear that needs to be extinguished, and people need to be aware that quite a large population of the world is trans. It’s not a choice and it’s not a mental illness.” TRANS AWARENESS Continued on A9

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The month of November, especially this week ending Nov. 20, has become a time for the trans community to communicate tolerance. “You’ve met somebody who’s trans in your life,” Forman said. “And did it hurt? Did that encounter hurt you? No, it doesn’t hurt anybody. The worst it does is wounds somebody’s heart and their memory of you.” Being transgender means something different to each and every person. “The best way to think about is people need to be comfortable in their bodies and their identity and that looks different for lots of people,” Forman said. “That’s why identity is something in your soul. Only you know what feels right, what fits right and what sounds right.” On Friday, Nov. 20, The LGBT Network will be hosting Transgender Day of Remembrance: Speak Out, a free virtual event to share stories to remember the lives lost this year to transphobic violence. “Speak Out is for everyone to join,” Kilmnick said. “It’s not just for the trans community — We have to join together to stop hate and violence.”

“We’ve sold more pies than ever,” she said. “I think people just want to make Thanksgiving special this year. We can’t do a lot of things right now, so people are looking for some normalcy.” Some people are opting not for the bird this year, and are switching it up. At Cow Palace in Rocky Point, owner Debbie Teitjen said there are other options they offer. “A lot of people are doing turkey breast or turkey London broil,” she said. “We’re doing tons of catering for smaller events and a lot of curbside catering.” But Arthur Worthington, of Miloski’s Poultry Farm on Middle Country Road in Calverton, said many of his customers are choosing to size down. “There definitely are still a lot of people going along with the tradition,” he said. “There are a lot of inquiries similar from years before.” He said customers who still want the bird are preferring smaller ones for this year’s dinner. “They’re looking for the 12 to 16 pound range, which is tough because everything we do with raising turkeys, we have to plan years in advance,” he said. But over in Huntington, Nick Voulgaris III, owner of Kerbers Farm on West Pulaski Road, said it’s been busier than typically this time of the year. “This is normally the busiest time of the year for us,” he said. “We’re slightly above normal, which is a good thing especially during the

Lisa Harris, the owner of Torte Jeff in Port Jefferson, said although they are down in sales, people are still buying Thanksgiving day pies. Photo by Margot Garant

current economic climate.” Voulgaris said people are gravitating towards smaller birds for smaller groups, but as of right now, they have completely sold out of turkeys for the holiday. “We’ve seen a 20% increase in sales over the last six months, or so,” he said. While they’re out of birds for the upcoming holiday, they still have plenty of pies to preorder before Sunday Nov. 20, he said. Lisa Harris, owner of Torte Jeff Pie Co. on East Main Street in Port Jefferson, said her shop has been down about 25% in sales from last year because gatherings are smaller, but people are still looking to celebrate with their favorite pies

for the holiday. “We’re selling less pies, but to the same amount of people,” she said. “We have definitely had a request for smaller pies.” Although it’s a small hit to her business, she’s still happy people want to shop small. Some, she said, are starting new traditions ordering and bringing home her savory Thanksgiving Day pie. “It’s everything you would have on Thanksgiving in a traditional pie,” she said. “That’s becoming really popular.” To deal with COVID-19, Harris implemented online ordering through Nov. 20 on a new portal on the shop’s website.

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E M PL OY M E N T / C A R E E R S Rocky Point UFSD AVAILABLE OPENINGS:

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Editorial Letters to the Editor Is Thanksgiving Canceled? Finding Solutions for Making Voting Better There’s no good way to put this. We know in a year of hardship so many of us crave the companionship and familial connection of a traditional Thanksgiving, but because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s something we simply can’t have this year. Yes, we fought through the worst of the virus in New York, but cases are rising again all over the country. Suffolk stands as a positive test rate of 3.4% as at Nov. 17. Just a few weeks ago we were bragging about how well we were doing at 1%. Experts have repeatedly said we will enter a second wave of the virus as the weather cools and more people spend time indoors, where the virus can spread more easily. Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced new limits on several businesses and gatherings. Bars, restaurants and gyms are mandated to close by 10 p.m. for everything barring takeouts. The state also limited in-person gatherings to 10 people, though it excludes households with residents already numbering 10 or more. Some have questioned the point of the latter restriction, especially whether the state even has the ability to restrict the number of people in a family home. Though there are residents who have reported large gatherings in backyards, the order should be taken more as a notice and reminder. It’s easy to guess just how quickly COVID-19 spreads when there are 20 or more people sitting shoulder to shoulder shoveling Thanksgiving delights into maskless mouths. We only have to look at recent superspreader events to know just how dangerous maskless gatherings can be. A Sweet 16 event at the Miller Place Inn in September caused 37 people to come down with the virus, some of whom weren’t even at the event, while a reported 270 were required to quarantine. Local officials have already cited Halloween parties for an increase in positive cases. One can only think holidays like Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year will do even more harm if we don’t take the initiative now. With that said, there are still many local businesses who depend on Thanksgiving sales, whether it’s the local butcher or bakery. We ask people to still patronize your neighboring establishments even if you might not need as much this year as previous. I mean, don’t we all look forward to Thanksgiving leftover sandwiches? But likely more people are concerned about not seeing their family sitting around the table as they do every year. There’s no way around it, no, you shouldn’t. Keeping it to household members only will be hard, but there are ways to talk to friends and family through video and phone. We know some people in our office will offer toasts over Zoom and other facilities. And we know that we will be toasting the many people who work and continue to work, making sure people are safe during an unprecedented time. We also need to thank the many volunteers providing food for the needy during an especially difficult time, and hope all those hungry people find some meal and companionship this holiday. So, combined with people still traveling home for Thanksgiving, with more visitors likely to come from out of state, we are left with few good options. Some people say something to the effect that “we can’t let the virus control our lives.” We would counter that thought with the following: If every single one of us having a smaller Thanksgiving for one year saves even just one life, then it would have been worth it. Is Thanksgiving canceled? Maybe a traditional one is, but the spirit of the holiday certainly won’t be, not if our goal is to keep those around us safe and healthy.

I am an 88-year-old citizen of Suffolk County who thinks we can make things better. Your editorial of Nov. 12 [“Voting for Better”] advocated for making voting more accessible and easier, especially given the large number of engaged voters and current challenges of outdated voting practices. Solutions will require all of us, including government officials, to bring our thinking into the 21st century. But solutions are possible. I would like to share one practical change that could be implemented prior to the next election cycle. Ballots can safely and securely be mailed to all registered voters prior to the election. Other states successfully mail ballots and official government documents such as from social security are safely mailed all the time. Ballots can then be returned in three ways — by mail, at a polling location, or via a

protected drop-box. As seen this year, the slowing of postal delivery and the dearth of polling places made the first two options difficult for many. To address this, I am suggesting that the Suffolk County Board of Elections install drop boxes at a secure building located in every Suffolk community — the local fire department. Fire district buildings are secure and often monitored by video. They are conveniently located. A community fire station drop-box would mean that each ballot would be handled only by the voter, the vetted board of elections representative picking up and delivering the ballot, and the person responsible for receiving and entering the ballot data. If this proposal were to be implemented the following would have to happen: • All Suffolk fire districts (which are taxpayer funded) would agree to provide

a secure area for the drop-box in their station, accessible during determined voting days and hours. • The Suffolk County Board of Elections would supply and install the secure drop-boxes. • The Suffolk County Board of Elections would provide vetted personnel to pick up the ballots from the drop-boxes and deliver them securely to election headquarters. This proposed revision should improve the voting system by providing safe mailed ballots and easy return of ballots, relieving the burdens on the post office and most importantly, avoiding long lines at polling places. I have served as a firefighter in my local fire district for over 50 years, and I know that with forward thinking we can make this happen. Al Kopcienski Mount Sinai

Time to Address Brookhaven’s Unrealized Potential As we conclude the election of 2020, it is time to take stock of where we are as a community, and where we should be headed. While absentee ballots are counted, it is not too early to turn our eyes to where we live, assess the community’s needs and chart a plan forward that addresses Brookhaven’s challenges, including the Village of Port Jefferson. Brookhaven has a solid waste crisis. It is decades in the making and has been borne by the communities of color that live in close proximity to the landfill. North Bellport has the lowest life expectancy on Long Island at 73.2 years according to estimates for census tracts, and lower property values than the surrounding neighborhoods. With the landfill set to close in 2024, it is past time to pursue innovative 21st-century solutions to our waste crisis and go the route of environmentally conscious, zerowaste solutions. Burning garbage is not the future. We must move in the direction of robust, innovative recycling and waste

reduction programs. Affordable housing is almost nonexistent in Brookhaven, leaving our young people without options. We must address and change this. Rather than reward corporate donors and wealthy developers with land-use contracts that do not address the needs of the community, we must keep our young people, our future, here with affordable housing. We must prioritize safety as well, so they are not living in dangerous, overcrowded and illegal rentals. We must create a path to commerce that bridges Stony Brook University to the surrounding community. Creating a “main street” that entices students to come into our town is good business and economic development. In Port Jefferson Station, we need to address the blight and create a mixed-use plan that brings affordable housing and commerce to the area. And, we must address the many empty storefronts in Port Jefferson and work with the village to encourage

businesses to make their homes on our picturesque waterfront. Our roads are in deep disrepair. Too many of our streets are filled with potholes. We need a comprehensive infrastructure plan that repairs our roads and makes them sustainable for years to come. To accomplish these goals, we need fundamental change to how town government works. We need consistent communication, transparency and our elected officials to connect with us rather than with their wealthy donors. Our interests have been sidelined for far too long, and it’s time for change. With our federal and state elections concluded, it is time to address the mismanagement of our town. We are an area of unrealized potential, and with all stakeholders coming to the table, we can make Brookhaven sustain our families into the future. Shoshana Hershkowitz South Setauket

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Hoping Next Year We Can Go from Coming Apart to Coming Together

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Now, if we’re coming together apart, we are focusing on the fact that we can be, and are, together first, before we also admit that we may be hundreds or even thousands of miles away from people whose hugs, smiles and laughter fill the rooms we share. Zoom, FaceTime and other modern conveniences make it possible for us to see each other’s faces, even though the image of the other person can feel flat compared to the reality of sharing time and space. The third of those possibilities, just plain coming apart, enables us to throw up our arms and acknowledge the reality of our world. Many children are home most, or all, the time. Parents are still working through Zoom, looking at small squares of people on computer screens for way too many hours during the day. The sameness of each day can become tedious and wear on our nerves, especially during this time when we’d typically plan for family visits. And, of course, without passing any specific judgment, the hot button election continues

to drive wedges among families, friends and neighbors, who can’t imagine how the other side fails to see the obvious realities their favorite anchors or faux news and commentary shows echo each day. It’s agonizing to see how the differences between camps have become a deﬁning feature and have stirred a sense of frustration and antipathy for the other camp. Where are the adults in the room? For so long, the country brought together people from different backgrounds, uniting us under the umbrella of an American Dream that was available to anyone who worked hard enough for it. Our sports-crazed culture believed in the winners they cheered for and used their teams as an inspiration to get ahead, to put more into their craft and to try to win the battle for original ideas. Even fans of hated rivals acknowledged the skills and remarkable games they witnessed from their rivals during heated playoff series. I always rooted against Red Sox

great Carl Yastrzemski, but I also recognized his incredible talent. Will a vaccine enable us to come together, together? I hope so. Next year at this time, if we have returned to some level of normalcy that allowed us to visit with our friends, to celebrate weddings, graduations, birthdays, and newborns, we will have the structural opportunities to spend time indoors, even in crowded rooms, and support each other. Between now and then, ideally we’d plant the seeds that enable us to move forward together. We are not an archipelago nation, separated from each other by the ideological, religious or other labels. We do best when we play to the strengths of a workforce dedicated to getting ahead, to providing for our children and to helping the country even as we help ourselves. While many of us are physically apart, we can try to reach out to family, friends, and neighbors, even if their ideas temporarily bafﬂe us. We can come together if we are there for each other and if we listen to views outside our own.

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other holidays for Thanksgiving at our home every year. I guess we can include thanks this time for and via Zoom. Could you imagine a political stalemate over the election at the presidential level like the one playing out in the courts in different states across the country? Yes, the 2000 vote was a handwringer, but it pales in drama when compared with this election. Back then, the decision hung on 537 votes. This time, with vital information withheld and with a pandemic raging, more is at stake than the outcome of the election. We are vulnerable to attack as a nation. And as for that pandemic, as direly predicted this past spring, it is rearing its ugly head now that the weather has cooled and we are living more indoors and closer together. We have learned some things since the affliction started. Masks make a difference in protecting others and also ourselves from the spread of the virus. Fresh air, social distancing and hand washing continue to be vital. HEPA filters are powerful allies. And broad scale testing, followed by tracing, matter. Still, people are hospitalized, emergency rooms and ICU beds fill up and even some patients die, as we wait to be rescued by

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science. Incredible progress has been made developing a vaccine, and by more than one laboratory, but distribution to and acceptance by the general public of the vaccines will not happen during this imminent winter. Weather has also been a villain. Violent storms and hurricanes, the ferocity of which has been unleashed, we are told, by climate change, have disrupted life for many in the United States and across the globe, even in the midst of desperate efforts to fight the pandemic. And further complicating rescue are the unprecedented fires burning in California and the far west. Then throw in assorted mudslides and tornados for good measure. Tragic! The economy continues to worsen for many as it excels for the few businesses that benefit from the consequences of the virus. Restaurants, hotels, travel, transportation, formal entertainment, cultural events, retail, health care, child care, education — all have suffered huge financial blows. And the effects are not, curiously, shared equally among men and women. Most of the jobs in those industries are filled by women, who now have no jobs because of shutdowns, or have

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jobs they cannot get to because of child care responsibilities. This one issue is being viewed as a significant setback for women in the workplace, and for society as a whole, for years to come. Meanwhile construction, renovation, manufacturing and high tech, that makes Zoom and countless other products now deemed a necessity possible, are mushrooming. The tenor of watershed events in people’s lives is tarnished. Weddings, graduations, significant and not-so-significant birthday parties, reunions, baptisms, funerals — all are put on hold or otherwise unwillingly altered in timing and attendance. Even an entitlement as innocent as looking forward to a thrilling freshman year in college has now morphed into a two-dimensional, remote experience. And returning college students are considered risks for households and communities. There is no point in complaining. It will not alter this bizarre year and the troubles it has brought. The one thought I could offer my friend on a return text: “we will be able to say, as we someday will tell the tale, that we lived through it.”

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