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When Raymond Castronovo, of Riverhead-based Zenith Group, asked Town of Smithtown Supervisor Ed Wehrheim (R) how he could help during the COVID-19 pandemic, Wehrheim told him his biggest concern was helping the residents who rely on the senior center and meal delivery program. Castronovo responded by writing out a check for $3,000. “I wanted to do something to help those
less fortunate, and I knew that the path would be safe here in Smithtown … it comforts my heart, knowing that my donation will go to help these seniors,” Castronovo said. The supervisor said his biggest concern were those who were homebound and had no assistance to purchase essential supplies. Currently the town is delivering five meals per person for the week. “Having additional funding in the budget
would allow for our Senior Center to add essentials for the week to those meals,” Wehrheim said. “The thought of anyone in our community rationing food is heartbreaking … let alone the greatest generation of our residents. Thanks to Raymond’s generosity we can help more, care more … do more.” The donation provided 900 meals for seniors. Photo from Town of Smithtown
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United for mental health awareness Even though the DECA national conference has been canceled, the message presented by Smithtown High School West student Juliana Buonaiuto is still extremely important. Buonaiuto recently completed her DECA manual focusing on mental health awareness. To promote the Breaking Silence campaign and its message of mental health awareness, Buonaiuto (center holding sign) initiated a schoolwide mental health awareness day in January. Students were asked to dress in green to show their support and wear their “break the silence” awareness wristbands.
Additionally, students signed health unity pledges at the table in front of the new mural. The mural was painted by Buonaiuto and is meant to have a lasting impact on the students of Smithtown High School West. Her inspirational message reminds students on a daily basis to “keep their head up and their heart strong.” The Breaking Silence community service project also provided valuable resources for community members through the Smithtown High School West weekly newsletter, providing a weekly mental health and wellness tip. The newsletter was sent to all parents and students via email and the tips offers suggestions about caring for their mental health.
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We’ve set up online fundraisers for Long The novel coronavirus has changed the way we live our lives. We are educating our children Island Cares to feed struggling families and at home, and many of us are working remotely. called our neighbors to check in and see if they We are practicing social distancing, and the small need anything. We’ve used our own social media luxuries of life like getting a haircut or eating in a platforms to encourage the people in our lives to fill out the census before April 1, because our restaurant are temporarily unavailable. As I adapt to this new way of temporary representation and resources are dependent on living, I am beginning to hear of friends falling every one of us being counted. We’ve encouraged ill with COVID-19 and of friends losing loved our social circles to register to vote, which can now be accessed online. These ones to the virus. I find myself are small daily actions that we analyzing every sneeze, every take to keep our activism going, cough, every twinge in my because in this unprecedented body. I take my temperature time, taking action is a means several times a day to relieve of restoring calm in our lives. my anxiety. It is in this new Electoral politics takes on a landscape that I attempt to stake whole new character when out a new path of organizing politicians cannot kiss babies and activism. As an organizer and activist, and shake hands. the human connection is a It is my opinion that the key part of how the work is digitally savvy, strong virtual accomplished. Activism was communicators will have an not intended to occur at a advantage in this new landscape. distance. Goals are achieved by The old retail politics relied on face-to-face personal contact, By Shoshana Hershkowitz the door knocks, the town halls, be it at a peaceful protest, a the house parties. Candidates community meeting, lobbying a legislator or campaigning in the age of the coronavirus will canvassing voters. need to adapt and engage their base in a new way. Organizers and activists are passionate about Virtual town halls, Zoom barnstorms and pithy the issues and communities we work in, including tweets are the new currency. Reaching out to health care, human rights, environmental volunteers via Skype and getting them to follow up protection and electoral work. The new normal from their couches, rather than fundraising totals, requires us to reevaluate and adapt, and attempt will be the measure of viability. It is a fascinating to create a human connection in a virtual space. In time to be a candidate, as the rules of politics and a strange way, social distancing brings me back society at large are turned upside down. to the beginning of my journey as an organizer. The big question you may have is: “Why? It is a journey that began at my kitchen table in In an age of fear, anxiety and sadness, why is November 2016, the week after the presidential political activism important?” And the answer election. Inspired by the Indivisible guide, which for me is quite simple. We are in this moment supports local groups with civic education in part because our government has failed us. and resources, I began to call my members of While pandemics cannot be eliminated by Congress daily from my kitchen table. It became the government, our leaders are very much a part of my daily routine, like brushing my teeth responsible for how they have chosen to respond. and unloading the dishwasher. I began to write We are in this mess in part because we do not letters to the editor on my laptop at the kitchen guarantee health care as a human right; we do not table. A couple of months later, I founded Suffolk have paid family and sick leave; and almost half Progressives at my kitchen table, a Facebook of our nation lives paycheck to paycheck. This is group intended to get like-minded folks into the where our government and leaders have failed work of activism. us. President Donald Trump (R) has added to this It took me far longer to get comfortable with crisis by ignoring the doctors and scientists, and the in-person aspects of political activism and caring more about the stock market than public organizing. It was several months after I began health. This is why our leaders should and must be my “kitchen table activism” when I began to held accountable, and why our work is so crucial. venture into the world of peaceful protests and It is why every one of us, whether you consider lobbying legislators face-to-face. yourself an activist or not, must be informed and So now the members of my group and I find engaged — and vote on Nov. 3. ourselves back where we started, at our kitchen We cannot afford to be complacent. Lives tables, trying to figure out how to effect change depend on it. together while apart. We call our legislators Shoshana Hershkowitz is the conductor of the daily, asking that our state does not make any Stony Brook Chorale and Camerata Singers at cuts to Medicaid, that the federal government Stony Brook University. She is also the founder enacts the Defense Protection Act to produce of the Suffolk Progressives Facebook page, which personal protective equipment for physicians provides county residents the opportunity to share ideas for activism. and essential workers.
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Long Island Couple Helps To Set Up Central Park Field Hospital BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
Above, an overview of the field hospital constructed at Central Park; left, Shawn and Lisa Cooper volunteered to help at the field hospital site in Central Park. Above photo by Lisa Cooper; left photo by David Beidel
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or three more had to be assembled, though she wasn’t surprised. “It’s a well-oiled machine how Samaritan’s Purse does things,” Cooper said, adding she volunteered with them in 2012 during Hurricane Sandy and has found the nonprofit to be dedicated and passionate with their outreach. The Coopers were put to work right away, and the wife said she first helped to assemble cots, while her husband took part in laying down flooring outside of the tents. They also helped to lay down plywood planks across Central Park, she said, to protect the grass. She was also able to help to unload some boxes with equipment and set up monitors along with other projects. Cooper said she was amazed that the volunteers were able to get the field hospital ready in two days, and while she had to get over some concerns about the virus, it made her feel better that patients would soon benefit from it. “We only played a very small part,” she said. “When you think of it as a whole body, the whole body is needed to get the task done, but yet we were just such a very small part of it. I was honored that I would be asked to do that.”
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A Long Island couple recently did their part in the fight against the coronavirus. Central Islip resident Lisa Cooper, along with her husband, Shawn, joined dozens who helped to construct a field hospital for COVID-19 patients in Central Park at the end of March. Cooper said she and her husband received an email from a friend telling them how the organizers, Samaritan’s Purse, a nondenominational Christian organization that provides aid to people around the world, was looking for volunteers to pitch in and help. The couple, who are the founders of the Long Island ministry Bridge Connection, talked over some of their concerns about traveling into the city during the pandemic, but Cooper said she started thinking about her son who is deployed overseas in Saudi Arabia and a former job of hers where she worked with the National Guard, with many members now activated in New York. “If they can stand up and be willing to serve, how do I not stand up and do my part?” she said. The couple traveled to the city March 30 for the second day of the build. They opted not to take public transportation and drove their car. Cooper said they felt comfortable knowing they were in control of who was inside their vehicle and where they could park. It took them just over an hour to get from their home to Mount Sinai Hospital in Uptown Manhattan, and they were able to find street parking near the site directly across from the health care facility. They couldn’t help but notice how empty the streets were. “It was not New York City on a normal Monday commute,” she said. During the short walk to the site, they did see a few pedestrians, who seemed like health care workers, on the streets and many were wearing face masks. She said they also noticed there wasn’t anyone in the park walking or jogging like on an average day. She said the day they arrived many of the larger tents were already erected, and only two
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‘Grieving Twice’: People Face Trials Mourning the Dead During Pandemic BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Carla Sciara’s father, former Port Jefferson Station resident Ronald “Ronnie” Scalone, passed away March 17 after a long illness, one unrelated to the escalating coronavirus pandemic. Scalone was a past aeronautical engineer at Grumman, and lived a life bound to nature and the Long Island Sound. In Sciara’s father’s final days, he was living in the Patchogue-based Suffolk Center for Rehabilitation, a nursing home that had decided to close most access to visitors, their residents being especially vulnerable to COVID-19. Sciara was one of the few people the staff allowed in to visit during her father’s final hours. She walked through halls mostly devoid of the normal family members strolling the halls, with nursing home staff all garbed in masks and gloves. Amidst all the pain and suffering of losing her father, she said dealing with the panic and stress of a pandemic was like “grieving twice.” For people looking to mourn and memorialize the recently passed, the ongoing coronavirus crisis has upended everything. Places of worship of every denomination far and wide have limited their public services, and with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines Moloney’s Funeral Homes are advertising a motorcycle-based farewell ride through town for the recently passed. Photo from Moloney Funeral Homes Facebook having limited the number of people in a room at once, services for the recently passed have where many services are held, were not. Not of 10 mourners for each gathering, he said he services. These, he added, have been for the only that, but CDC guidelines advise limiting wouldn’t simply deny a family if they wished most part limited to one a day. They have also become small, solemn affairs. to bring in around 20, but the goal is to limit set up live streaming of the services through Sciara had worked with Robertaccio Funeral such occasions to 10 or less people. Zoom for extended family and Funeral Homes like the number of people in the Home in Patchogue, who friends, which “has worked M.A. Connell in Huntington same space. Otherwise, they she called “amazing” for Station have severely are providing access for famwell so far.” their work with her father’s limited the number of ilies to listen to the prayers Vigliante said they have cremation, and Infant services they host, with via online streaming. They cleaning staff on hand seven Jesus R.C. Church in Port arrangements being made are also offering alternative days a week and have worked Jefferson for either a Mass by only two or less people services such as a motornot just to protect the people and funeral arrangements, or done via phone or email. cycle-based farewell ride coming to grieve but staff as but she decided to hold off, Services are limited to 10 through town. well. The owners have also knowing family who live as —Carla Sciara people or less and to one The facilities are also being encouraged mourners to stay far away as Florida shouldn’t hour. Only one service is sanitized regularly after every six feet apart from each other, be traveling during the allowed at a time. service. But the hardest part of even in the chapel. ongoing pandemic. She Peter Moloney, along these services in the time of a “It’s a truly heartbreaking has plans to celebrate his time,” he said. “We’re doing life sometime in the future, after the end of the with his brother Daniel Moloney Jr., owns pandemic is watching people panic, though it’s hard to say when that will be. Moloney Family Funeral Homes, with eight necessarily stay apart. Even in —Paul Vigliante the best we can to allow families that time to grieve “It just added to the grief of it all,” she said. locations on Long Island including Port tight-knit groups, friends and Jefferson Station, Lake Ronkonkoma and family not living in the same … It’s very difficult. It’s “We wanted to celebrate his life.” unfortunate the circumstances Beyond the fear and the tragedy of the more Hauppauge. The challenge has been allowing house often try to keep apart, than 200 people in Suffolk County who have people the room to grieve when there are limits even when the inclination is to hold each other we’re living through.” Despite the hardship of putting off a full died from the virus, the act of mourning has on how many people can be in the same place in times of grief. “A lot of these people are passing away service for her father, Sciara still marveled at become limited. Funeral homes throughout the at once. “This isn’t what the community wants alone, so it’s really doubly troubling for families the work and professionalism of everyone she’s North Shore have limited the number of people who can be at a service at a time and have — this is something that is forced upon and emotional,” Moloney said. “People are interacted with, from the staff at the nursing home to the funeral home to the church. looked to offer people as much ability to grieve us,” Moloney said. “The families still need keeping their spacing.” to grieve.” Paul Vigliante, who owns Branch Funeral “They were willing to do whatever we as they can. Moloney’s has established tents at some of Homes in Miller Place and Smithtown along wanted to do,” she said. “It’s brought out a The March 22 executive order by Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) called funeral homes their locations for families to hold ceremonies with his family, said his locations too have been whole lot of good. It’s incredible how people are essential businesses, but houses of worship, outside. While their website lists a maximum limited in the number of people who can attend still coming together.”
‘It just added to the grief of it all. We wanted to celebrate his life.’
‘It’s a truly heartbreaking time. We’re doing the best we can to allow families that time to grieve.’
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SBU Cancels Commencement Ceremony BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
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ranging between the ages of 18 and 72, joined the nearly 200,000 Seawolves worldwide as Stony Brook University celebrated its 59th commencement. On April 1, the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University announced it would allow its senior medical students to graduate in early April. The move is to enable them to work at SBU hospital during the COVID-19 pandemic under the supervision of residents, fellows and attending physicians. The graduates will begin their residencies July 1 at the facilities they match with across the state and country. The school held the medical student’s Match Day via Facebook Live last month. The university and 116 students were complying with social distancing guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19, according to a press release from Stony Brook Medicine. Each year medical students around the country look forward to Match Day, a national event where approximately 30,000 fourth-year students find out their residency assignments. Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, senior vice president of Health Sciences and dean of the Renaissance School of Medicine, joined in the celebration. “You are an incredibly bright, energetic and accomplished group who will soon be called ‘doctor,’” he said during the virtual event. The medical students graduated April 8, again using Facebook Live to celebrate.
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In medicine, there is the concept of triage. Essentially, it is prioritization, the assignment of degrees of injury or illnesses that necessitates hard decisions. When resources are limited, and when the number of patients is staggering, medical teams often need to focus on who is in most dire straits. Beyond that, however even more morose, it is prioritizing patients that medical professionals believe can be saved and those who are more likely to die. It is not a healthy subject to think long and hard about if you’re not on the front lines of fighting the virus. It is something doctors have learned to do in war zones and during great hardships. If things do not go smoothly, and if hospitals don’t have the correct amount of resources, personal protective devices, hospital beds and ventilators, then once we reach the peak number of cases, that is where events could lead. One of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D) most recent and most controversial acts as of Friday, April 3, was to sign an executive order saying they would take necessary equipment like ventilators from hospitals upstate which have seen relatively few cases and transport them to the hospitals in the most need. That is in itself a sort of triage, a step to prioritize who needs such medical items the most. To say some hospitals, such as Stony Brook University Hospital, which was cited by Cuomo as a coronavirus hot spot, need more resources is to say they will be the ones who will be keeping even more people from dying from the virus. People are helping these hospital workers in any way they can. We have seen local businesses and business groups band together to offer food for hospital and EMS workers. We have seen local residents create masks and other personal protective equipment from cloth they had at home. Libraries have come together to 3D print necessary PPE in the form of face shields. We have seen so much good come from our North Shore and Suffolk County community. But on the smaller end, with the people who are simply staying at home, we have to recognize just how much good that has done. Cuomo recently stated they are hopeful we may be reaching the plateau in the number of cases New York is seeing. It won’t be the end of the issues. We will likely have to remain isolated for several more weeks, but the amount of good social distancing has done is evident. People simply staying at home, getting the exercise when they can and not shaking hands has likely prevented an even greater overload of New York’s medical systems. Many people are feeling burdened with a sense they are doing nothing. They are out of work, and they have nothing on their plate. It’s a malaise that settles deep, and we should all be thinking of the people who did not have money at the start of this pandemic, and now have even less since being out of a job. New York will have to grapple with that. We Long Islanders should not feel like we have simply wasted time in languishing at home. This is society in action, with many thousands of people making sacrifices for the whole. It’s a sort of triage of the self and of society, finding what is more important and focusing on that. We should focus on the people who mean most to us, our friends and family. We should focus on the people who are in the most need and attempt to reach them and offer whatever kind of support. And at the same time, we should focus on ourselves, rest and take some time to think. When this whole thing comes around, all that time we spent in our homes will not have been wasted. It will mean a society that has learned to care for others in a time of crisis.
The coronavirus crisis has exposed the flaws of our public health system. It’s also exposed the sickness of our body politic. We have a Senator, Rand Paul, who quietly took advantage of his privileged access to a COVID-19 test. Instead of selfquarantining while awaiting the results like he was supposed to, he just went on his merry way, playing golf, and denouncing a coronavirus aid bill on the Senate floor, with no worries that he might be spreading the virus to his aged colleagues, let alone everyone else he came into contact with. When after six days of this his result came back positive, far from apologizing, he angrily insisted he had done nothing wrong. Is this what we mean by the land of the free? Senator Paul’s failure even to understand he had done anything wrong is exhibit A of the utter moral bankruptcy of his brand of libertarianism: the view that individuals should be free to do whatever they please, and damn the consequences for everybody else. There is a quartet of Republican senators whose big priority was not helping millions of Americans facing severe financial stress as quickly as possible. No, it was that some working stiff somewhere
Triage of the Self
Republican Senators’ Crisis Response is Subpar might possibly be benefitting too much by getting an extra six hundred bucks of unemployment pay, and we can’t have that. Funny how these same senators were remarkably unconcerned about handing out billions of dollars in tax benefits to the biggest corporations in America, which predictably used the money on stock buybacks to up their share price, thus justifying further increasing the already rich multimillion dollar pay handed out to their executives. These are some of the same corporations that are rattling the cup now and turning their pockets inside out, because now they’re running out of cash. We have an incompetent president who accepts no responsibility for the bungled American response to the coronavirus threat. Shortages of tests, shortages of protective gear for our brave health care workers and first responders, shortages of life-saving ventilators. South Korea is putting us to shame. No, Harry Truman is long gone, and the buck doesn’t stop here. It’s all too clear that the priority of our “fearless leader” is his own re-election, not the health and welfare of us, the governed. Instead of a national plan he calls for each state and locality
to purchase what it needs on the open market, thereby competing with each other, hospitals, and the federal government itself for scarce resources. The predictable result is increased prices, chaos, shortages where the need is greatest and needless suffering and death. Is this what we mean by “free enterprise?” And, oh yes, the appropriate response to the lies of the Chinese government’s propaganda is not a juvenile ethnic taunt, with no regard about further increasing bigotry and hate crimes against Asian Americans. And why is it so hard to understand that without mandatory paid sick leave, what we are doing is putting everybody’s health at risk by in effect forcing sick employees to come to work and spread illness? This is true in general, not just of the present crisis. This is not about partisanship. Governors, both Republican and Democratic, have for the most part done what they could without national leadership. Perhaps Republican Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan put it best: “You can’t put a timeframe on saving people’s lives.” David Friedman St. James
Don’t Just Think of Ourselves During Pandemic As we stumble through this unprecedented epidemic, many are fearful and uncertain. COVID-19 is testing our resilience as a society. We are seeing amazing community organizing. But we are also seeing the people who struggled the most before, struggling even more now, including the impoverished, homeless and the food insecure. In times of crisis, the socioeconomic divisions between us are magnified. Some can afford to hunker down and weather this storm; some cannot. Those who find themselves on the brink of survival now are the same people who are most in danger in this era of climate change. They are the ones who tend to live near polluting industrial areas. They are the people who face permanent displacement from their homes when intensifying storms and rising seas usher in floods. They lack access to affordable,
nutritious food. They cannot afford to miss work because of illness, whether COVID-19, or respiratory issues from pollution. The fears that many have about COVID-19 are the same fears that many of us have about climate change. One thing that the coronavirus has taught us, though, is that we have the ability to mobilize as a society, whether that means free meals to those in need, people connecting digitally to support each other while in quarantine or our government working to accommodate for lost wages and the health care crisis. It has also taught us that we have the power to clean up the planet if we are willing to clean up our act. The water in Venice is clearing up and the air pollution over Beijing has diminished. The circumstances surrounding these developments are devastating, but
perhaps going forward, changes to our economy, industry, and lifestyle could set the stage for sustainability. In this critical moment for change, will we have an economic plan that prioritizes workers, health care, and the environment? Are we going to push polluting industries to scale back? Or are we going to bail them out and leave our workers, our people, floundering in a rapidly declining environment? During this pandemic, we are told not to think of just ourselves, but about our society as a whole. Solving climate change demands this same sort of fellowship because climate change, like COVID-19, is a deadly crisis. But it is a crisis that we are evidently capable of handling, if we are only willing to work together for the greater good of life as we know it. Erin Zipman Stony Brook
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Opinion
With No New Sports, I’m Replaying Games in My Head
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ith sports on hold during the pandemic, I would like to borrow from the sports channels and share a collection of sports memories.
base, where she placed the ball in the glove of her teammate, starting an unlikely victory celebration.
The singing pitcher
Knowing from the standings that the basketball team I coached would struggle against a team that should have been in a different league, I told my team that if they kept the other team under 50 points and we scored 30, we would have a pizza party. At the end of the game, the other team scored 49 points. We had a chance, with one last shot, to reach 30. We didn’t make it, but the referees congratulated each player on our team for fighting till the end. If they only knew ...
My daughter was pitching against a heavily favored team. In the first inning, she walked in two runs. As the coach, I raced out to the mound to check on her. She D. None was quietly singing of the above a song to herself. BY DANIEL DUNAIEF I knew there was nothing I could say that would top whatever song was entertaining her. In the final play of the game, the batter hit a ground ball to her and she raced over to first
The basketball game where we almost covered the spread
The stampede game
In Cooperstown, I coached a town team of 12-year-olds against a team aptly named the Stampede. Hoping to confuse their 6-foot tall hitters, I chose our softest throwing pitchers. It
worked early, as they only scored one run in the first inning. In the second inning, my son hit a home run, giving us a 2-1 lead. We lost 11-4, but our players and their parents couldn’t have been happier, as we were the first team to score more than one run in an entire game and were also the first team the Stampede didn’t mercy.
hitting at different angles and further away from the defense, crushing balls just out. When my daughter served the last five points for the win, I joined a collection of elated parents as we screamed and threw our arms in the air. I briefly turned my head to hide the tears of pride welling in my eyes.
Even with a face mask on her softball helmet, the fastball that hit my daughter caused the mask to give her a bloody lip. The umpire said she could come out and return later. She refused help or attention and ran to first base. She stole second, third and home, and returned to the bench with a triumphant smile.
When my son was in pee wee ball, he watched a lot of baseball my fault. He played shortstop in a station-to-station game, in which each player moved up one base, regardless of where the ball went and whether someone got out. With the bases loaded, a player hit a line drive to my son at shortstop. He caught the ball, ran to third to get the runner who was jogging home and tagged the runner who approached him. After his unassisted triple play, he jogged off the field and dropped the ball near the pitcher’s mound. I had to explain to him that he didn’t play that way yet, but that he would, and hopefully will again, soon.
Tough as nails
The tiny team that did
My daughter was on a vastly undersized volleyball team that made it to the finals against a team that, in warm ups, pummeled balls into the ground. With my daughter anchoring the back row, the other team became frustrated that their hard hits didn’t win points. They tried
The kid who was way ahead of his time
Some Information on COVID-19 from Johns Hopkins Hospital
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mong the reams of writings that have been issued, I found this summary of information from Johns Hopkins Hospital to be most helpful, and so I am sharing with you now. The virus is not a living organism, but a protein molecule, DNA, covered by a protective layer of lipid, aka fats, which when absorbed by the cells of the ocular, nasal or buccal mucosa, changes their genetic code and converts them into aggressor and multiplier cells. Between Since the virus is not a living you and me organism but a BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF protein molecule, it is not killed, but decays on its own. The disintegration time depends on the
temperature, humidity and type of material where it lies. This virus is very fragile, and the only thing that protects it is a thin outer layer of fat. That is why any soap or detergent is the best remedy, because the foam cuts the fat (that is why you have to rub so much, for 20 seconds or more, to make a lot of foam). By dissolving the fat layer, the protein molecule disperses and breaks down on its own. Heat melts fat, and this is why it is so good to use water above 77 degrees Fahrenheit for washing hands, clothes and everything. In addition, hot water makes more foam, and that makes it even more useful. Alcohol, or any mixture with alcohol over 65 percent dissolves any fat, especially the external lipid layer of the virus. Any mix with one part bleach and five parts water directly dissolves the protein and breaks it down from the inside. Oxygenated water helps long after soap, alcohol and chlorine, because peroxide dissolves the virus protein, but you have to use it pure and it hurts your skin.
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No bactericide or antibiotic serves. The virus is not a living organism like bacteria; antibodies cannot kill what is not alive. Never shake used or unused clothing, sheets or cloth. While it is glued to a porous surface, it is very inert and disintegrates only: • between 3 hours (fabric and porous) • 4 hours (copper and wood) • 24 hours (cardboard) • 42 hours (metal) and • 72 hours (plastic). But if you shake it or use a feather duster, the virus molecules float in the air for up to 3 hours, and can lodge in your nose. The virus molecules remain very stable in external cold, or in artificial cold such as with air conditioners in houses and cars. They also need moisture and especially darkness to stay stable. Therefore, dehumidified, dry, warm and bright environments will degrade it faster. Ultraviolet light on any object that may contain it breaks down the virus protein. For example, to disinfect and reuse a mask, UV light is perfect. Be careful, it also breaks down collagen, a protein in the skin.
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The virus cannot go through healthy skin. Vinegar is not useful because it does not break down the protective layer of fat. No spirits or vodka serve. The strongest vodka is 40 percent alcohol and you need at least 65 percent. That means Listerine or other mouthwash can serve, as it is 65 percent alcohol. The more confined the space, the more concentrated of the virus can be. The more open or naturally ventilated, the less. You have to wash your hands before and after touching mucosa, food, locks, knobs, switches, remote control, cell phone, watches, computers, desks, TV, etc. and when using the bathroom. You have to moisturize dry hands from so much washing of them, because the molecules can hide in the micro cracks. The thicker the moisturizer, the better. Also keep your nails short so that the virus does not hide there. This is republished with gratitude to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. I hope it helps your understanding and visualization of what is going on as it did mine. Wishing you all care in following recommended procedures and good health.
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