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INSIDE: DURING THIS
COURT REPORTS PANDEMIC, IS
LOCAL COLUMNS BY
MERIDITH JUMISKO SOCIAL MEDIA
DEANNA FABIANO
A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
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Combating an ‘infodemic’: When
fear & false information go viral

One thing quarantines some 2 million tweets

can’t stop is the spread of spreading conspiracy

false information and fear theories about the

on Facebook and other epidemic, concluding that

popular platforms. In the at least some of the

world’s first social media activity was due to

pandemic, that presents a coordinated campaigns

parallel set of challenges involving fake accounts,

for citizens and leaders according to The

alike. Washington Post. And

Many have found social amid the swirl of dire

media an effective tool for predictions, a

rapidly conveying official microbiology professor in

guidelines and Spain has deemed this a

recommended practices, “pandemic of fear.”

as well as for connecting Indeed, fear and false

with each other and information have gone

supporting the most viral. Everyone from data Alex Won shows the message that spread a rumor
vulnerable in society. But scientists and doctors to on social media while eating in Los Angeles last
mixed in has been a psychologists and pastors month. Photo: Brian Melley/AP
torrent of misguided are weighing in on how to

advice and inaccurate contain this infodemic and the betterment of including the intentional

claims – including from its attendant effects. Many society,” Dr. Lee says,“that development of

supposedly scientific see an opportunity for really is known to elevate coronavirus as a

studies. This false society and individuals to and protect our well- bioweapon to “snake-oil

information has amplified come out of this crisis the being through times of salesmen” peddling fake

concerns in ways that stronger for it. difficulty.” cures. Those cures have

have made it difficult to “Sometimes a crisis can From “snake-oil included special
ascertain clearly the
scope of the global health give us a lot of fear but it salesmen” to Kremlin toothpaste and potions,
challenge and how best to
address it. can also prompt us to disinformation prompting a spoof from

think deeper and to think Carl Bergstrom, a comedian John Oliver
biologist at the University
better,” says Kristen Lee, a of Washington, says half- who offered “Premium
jokingly that he was “pre-
The director-general of behavioral science designed” for this crisis, Werewolf Solution” for
with a background in
the World Health professor at studying novel infectious $49.99.
diseases as well as how
Organization has called Northeastern University information spreads One of the challenges of
through networks from
on governments, in Boston who cautions ant colonies to Facebook. combating false

companies, and news against “hype contagion.” information is the

outlets around the globe To avoid the sometimes underlying architecture of
paralyzing effects of fear,
to tackle an “infodemic” she advocates limiting social media and the
social media consumption
of fake news, which he and finding opportunities algorithms that drive it.
to help others and live in a
characterized as being as purpose-driven way. “What goes viral
“When we’re using our doesn’t have a lot to do
dangerous as the skills, resources, and As he’s monitored false with what’s true, it has to
capacities to contribute to information online about do with what’s shocking,”
coronavirus itself.The U.S. COVID-19, he’s seen
everything from anti-
State Department’s China conspiracy theories

foreign propaganda- story continues
on page 4
busting center has

compiled a report on

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Infodemic In this turgid sources and encouraging
them to minister to their
information environment, neighbors.

story continued from page 2 it has been difficult for Coming together to
work through this crisis
says Professor Bergstrom, tweeted, “Text message leaders to find “a healthy could be a catalyst for
who commends social rumors of a national human progress, says
media companies for #quarantine are FAKE. balance between virologist Anjeanette
trying to prevent There is no national Roberts, who worked on
misinformation from lockdown.” Governors conveying calm and being SARS for three years and
spreading on their and mayors have issued serves as a research
platforms. “On the one similar missives. And the frank about troubling scholar with Reasons to
hand, kudos to them for Pentagon has called out Believe.
doing that. On the other China for spreading “false facts,” as former Treasury
hand, the problem exists & absurd conspiracy “It’s the crises that have
in an ecosystem of their theories about the origin Secretary Henry Paulson the ability to bring out the
making.” of COVID-19 blaming U.S. very best in us because it
service members.” Jr. advised in a Washington makes us lay aside what
we tend to focus on that
Post op-ed last week. can divide us,” says Dr.
Roberts, a public advocate
Imparting lessons he of her Christian faith who
is deeply concerned about
learned from helping to the level of polarization in
American society today.
steer the nation through “We have gotten really far
away from the idea of ‘Do
the 2008 economic crisis, unto others as you would
have them do unto you.’”
he called fear “as big an
Now, with a global
In addition to the often enemy as the virus itself.” health challenge that has
well-intentioned sharing neighbors leaning out
of unverified information An internal European To be sure, minimizing their windows and singing
that turns out to be false, or ignoring information together, younger people
another threat is Union document from official sources going grocery shopping
organized disinformation carries its own dangers, for their older neighbors,
campaigns designed to describes a “significant and there is disagreement little kids leaving drawings
distract, distort, and about what constitutes an in every mailbox in their
deceive. disinformation campaign “appropriate” level of fear. neighborhood, and many
Some say fear spurs other examples of people
by Russian state media people into necessary helping each other, some
action. But it can also lead see an opportunity not
and pro-Kremlin outlets to poor decision-making only to survive the crisis
and unnecessary worry, but come out stronger for
regarding COVID-19” in and negatively affect one’s it.
health.
numerous languages Pastor Gray says, “I
think it’s putting us in a
When the crisis designed to “exacerbate place of saying, ‘Wow,
maybe I do need a hope
s ramped up last week, confusion, panic and fear” and a power and a
strength and a love that is
there was a four- to five- and thereby undermine beyond me.’”

day window in which public trust in authorities By Christa Case Bryant

official communication and national health care

channels were relatively systems. Messages in

unfettered by such Spanish, for example, “After working for 45

campaigns, says Marc “advance apocalyptic years in the field of

Ambinder, a digital fellow stories, blame capitalists psychiatry, I have seen fear

at the University of for trying to benefit from cause a lot of long-term

Southern California the virus, and emphasise consequences in people’s

studying disinformation how well Russia and lives,” says Dr. Mary

and cybersecurity around [President Vladimir] Putin Moller, associate

elections. But, he adds, if are dealing with the professor of nursing at

the number of cases outbreak,” according to a Pacific Lutheran

spikes,“there’s going to be Financial Times report. University in Washington

more anxiety, and the Nicholas Christakis, a and the 2018 American
physician and sociologist
purveyors of at Yale who has become a Psychiatric Nurses
prominent voice on
disinformation in this COVID-19, complained Association’s Psychiatric
on Twitter of having
arms race are going to gained the unwanted Nurse of the Year.
attention of lots of
regain their footing very Russian bots.“Their intent “Ultimately, over time, it
seems to be to waste my
quickly.” time. Their psychological can lead to compromising
tricks are incredible,” he
The Trump wrote. your immune system.”
administration has alleged
that a foreign In addition to mental
disinformation campaign is health professionals’
underway to sow fear.This efforts to help people
past weekend, the address their fears, faith
National Security Council leaders are also pointing
seekers to spiritual

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When fighting bureaucracy means
disbanding a pandemics office

When PBS journalist that come with greater President George W. pandemic, we should
Yamiche Alcindor recently velocity, greater impact, Bush’s NSC. prefer a team with
asked President Donald and cost, and we need a sufficient seniority to
Trump about his decision facility within ... the White “Can you invent it as a guarantee access and
to disband the National House that has the posse at the last minute? trust,” says Loren DeJonge
Security Council’s office authority to see around Yes,” he adds, “But would Schulman, the NSC’s
for pandemics, Mr. Trump corners, see things early, it be more effective if it’s director of defense policy
said the question was act very quickly, and bring already on the spot? Yes. during President Barack
“nasty.” about accountability and And it could act faster.” Obama’s first term.
coordination of the U.S. “These are not matters
But it pointed to a response,” says Stephen Moreover, when the you want to learn on the
Morrison, director of the pandemics group was job in crisis.”
fundamental tension in Mr. Global Health Policy moved into a larger story continues
Center at the Center for directorate, it lost on page 6
Trump’s view of Strategic and International expertise. “Amid a
Studies in Washington.
government. Can he “That has been missing”
with the disbanding of the
“streamline” a White House pandemics
office.
government that he feels

has become too bloated

while maintaining its

ability to act effectively?

The administration sees

this as essential work, “Some of the

returning the NSC to its sluggishness and

core function as an confusion that we have

advisory body of several seen bedevil this effort

executive branch since the very beginning ...

secretaries serving the [is connected to the]

president – instead of a absence of effective

growing bureaucracy structures within the

pursuing a variety of White House itself,” he

agendas. adds.

But some former NSC That’s because a
pandemics office could
officers from both have filled a vital role from
the first moments of the
Republican and crisis – coordination.
Organizations had to
Democratic spend valuable time
getting on the same page.
administrations worry

that Mr. Trump has cut

into the meat of the NSC.

The disbanding of the

pandemics office in 2018

under John Bolton, which “In a crisis like this you
don’t go to HHS [Health
was then folded into a and Human Services] and
ask them to manage it.You
broader directorate on go to the White House
where presumably you
issues such as nuclear have the expertise
developed to work across
proliferation and all the relevant agencies,”
says Peter Feaver, who
terrorism, shows the was a strategic planner for

costs of such downsizing,

they say.

“We live in an era of
recurrent crises of this
kind [like coronavirus]

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Pandemics
office

story continued President Donald Trump listens as John Bolton, then national security adviser,
from page 5 speaks during a February 2019 presidential memorandum signing. A White

The National Institutes House decision to disband the pandemics office in 2018 under Mr. Bolton has
of Health leader who has come under renewed scrutiny amid the coronavirus crisis. Photo: Lea Mills
become a fixture at daily
White House coronavirus
briefings acknowledges the
team’s absence is felt. “It
would be nice if the office
was still there,” Dr.
Anthony Fauci, director of
the NIH’s National
Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases, told
Congress March 11.

What is the NSC for?

To Mr. Trump, however, views,” she adds. the same mindset that implementation that
the NSC had become gives him concern about should go to agencies – a
something that was never Some also suspect that the so-called deep state, fundamentally
intended. National security the downsizing aims to but it reflects a high level Scowcroftian view,” says
adviser Robert O’Brien reduce the number of of insecurity and a Ms. DeJonge Schulman.
said recently that the NSC career officials – the “deep unilateral approach to
had “ballooned” to 250 state” – seeing them not as loyalty.” Ms. Rice, too, undertook
staff members under a source of expertise but a “right-sizing effort,”
President Obama. Mr. as a potential den of Golden days worried that the NSC had
O’Brien reduced it to 175 disloyalty. begun taking over agency
when he took his job, and For his part, Mr. O’Brien duties. But the NSC’s key
it is now at 110, he added. “It’s just not the case role was “making sure
that the NSC O’Brien says he is trying to return agency perspectives get a
“The NSC is not there took over was too big, fair hearing and fair
to re-create the State especially given the the NSC to the model evaluation with the
Department or the complexity and variety of president,” Ms. DeJonge
Pentagon” within the issues the president has to created by the legendary Schulman adds.
White House, he said. deal with,” says Mr. Feaver,
who is now a public policy Brent Scowcroft under Beyond that, there are
But in shrinking, the NSC professor at Duke limits to a model from
has become too much of a University in Durham, President George H.W. three decades ago.
“yes, sir” body that tells North Carolina. “What is
the president what he the case is that Trump Bush – a focus on “Brent Scowcroft didn’t
wants to hear, says Ms. didn’t think he needed any need an office on cyber,
DeJonge Schulman, who is NSC staff.” implementing the but it’s a necessity now,”
now a national security says Mr. Feaver. “In the
expert at the Center for a Mr. Trump’s president’s policies. same way, the judgment
New American Security in impeachment was largely was made at some point
Washington. launched by a “If you can’t get on that pandemics were going
whistleblower assigned to board with [the president], to become a bigger
“The NSC staff is not the White House from an you’re probably better off problem in our current
there to implement the outside agency – the CIA. back in your agency or ... time and so necessitated
president’s every desire, The president’s running for Congress,” he more high-level attention
but to make sure he has preoccupation with “the told a crowd at the at the White House.”
the best options, agencies” suggests to Mr. Heritage Foundation to
evaluation or risk and cost, Feaver that the laughter. To him, “that view has
and perspective on agency streamlining “is fueled by been borne out.”
But others have a
different view of Mr. By Howard LaFranchi
Scowcroft’s legacy. Under
Mr. Obama, National
security adviser Susan Rice
“believed the NSC staff
should focus on
coordinating policy and
advising the president, not

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Three questions as Biden

effectively locks down nomination

Dear reader: Hohmann of the
Washington Post writes,
Joe Biden’s sweep of “many Americans seem far
less interested in partisan
Tuesday’s primaries politics now than the
virus’s potential impact on
effectively seals the their lives and their
livelihoods.”
Democratic presidential
Still, it’s an election year
nomination for the former - albeit one filled with
uncertainty. Will Senator
vice president. As I write, Sanders work hard to
unite his army of
his only opponent, disappointed followers
behind former Vice
Vermont Sen. Bernie President Biden in the
effort to defeat President
Sanders, is “assessing” his Donald Trump? Will the
national party conventions
campaign and is expected take place this summer -
or at all? Will the election
to drop out at some point. itself even happen?

For now, though, both Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice
candidates are focused on President Joe Biden speaks in Delaware on March
the COVID-19 pandemic,
and in live-streamed 12th. Photo: Matt Rourke/AP
remarks Tuesday night,
expressed their concerns On the first question, only highlighted their
and aspirations for Mr. Sanders promised differences: Mr. Sanders, a
Americans at this earlier this month to back democratic socialist, is
challenging time. Mr. Biden if he’s the
nominee, but the crisis has story continues on
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Biden an independent, as some for vote-by-mail to keep
people safe, as CNBC
feared) reinforced reports. And as Buzzfeed
recently asked, what
Continues from previous page Democratic unity. happens if Mr. Trump tries
to cancel or postpone the
focused on protecting low- enough to energize Perhaps the quadrennial election because of the
conventions won’t be coronavirus? The short
income Americans while Sanders supporters needed to ramp up answer is, he can’t do
partisan enthusiasm. As either. To go to that length
the center-left Mr. Biden remains to be seen. things looks now, with all would require both an act
major gatherings off the of Congress and a change
projects a more holistic Which brings the table for the foreseeable to the Constitution, both
approach. future, a convention-less liberal and conservative
discussion back to and rally-free campaign experts agree.
may be in our future. The
At the same time, Mr. President Trump. Even if parties may have to find By Linda Feldman,
another way to formally Christian Science Monitor
Biden has said he’ll adopt not inspired by Mr. Biden, nominate their candidates.

plans from both the Sanders supporters can be

Sanders and Elizabeth motivated by the “negative

Warren campaigns on partisanship” of voting

education costs and against Mr. Trump. The

bankruptcy. The decision Thursday by

Democratic mainstream Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard

has most certainly shifted to drop out and endorse And what of the election
itself? Senators are pushing
left. Whether that will be Mr. Biden (and not run as

home • Make a movie—
Nurture your children’s
Keep Kids Busy inner filmmakers by
With A PLAYlist encouraging them to
create their own movie
(NAPSI)—At times, it’s Meredith Sinclair, author proud of what has using a smartphone/tablet,
up to parents and and The Genius of Play blossomed under their some of their toys to play
caregivers to keep kids Ambassador, suggests care. the characters and crafts
busy. Instead of waiting to writing activities on for scenery. Once the
hear the dreaded “I’m popsicle sticks and placing • Camping—No need to movie is finished, gather
bored,” families can be them in a play jar to create go far. Gather all the the family and some
prepared with fun a PLAYlist of fun ideas. camping essentials, such as popcorn to have a viewing
activities to ensure Whenever children are flashlights, sleeping bags, party and admire your
children are playing and bored or need inspiration, s’more ingredients and a children’s creativity.
learning all vacation long. encourage them to select pop-up tent, head to the
from the play jar to stir up living room or the • DIY T-shirts—Have
According to experts at their creativity. backyard and set up camp children play clothing
The Genius of PlayTM, a for the night. designer for the day. Let
national movement to To help get your them personalize a T-shirt
encourage more play in • Rock art—Whether with craft supplies such as
children’s lives, research PLAYlist started, Sinclair used as decorations or to tie-dye, puff paints,
shows that play is not only leave kind messages sequins, iron-on patches
critical to healthy child recommends the around the neighborhood, and anything else they
development—it’s an rock art is a trendy and might like.
important teaching tool. following activities: easy craft. Have kids
Through play, kids build collect rocks of various Play is not only critical
physical skills, improve • Grow a garden—A shapes and sizes, and once to healthy child
cognitive abilities, learn fun, educational way to let the rocks are clean, use development—it’s an
communication and social kids get dirty is by having acrylic paint to decorate important teaching tool.
skills, process and express them start their very own them. Through play, kids build
emotions, and increase vegetable garden. They’ll physical skills, improve
creativity. love planting the seeds to cognitive abilities, learn
watch them grow. They’ll communication and social
also be learning a sense of skills, process and express
responsibility and getting a emotions, and increase
confidence boost by being creativity.

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Opinion: In the shadow of coronavirus,

t remembering the toll of TB

As news of the spreading sturdier structures. They cities.
COVID-19 pandemic were wrong.
began to crowd out every When my grandmother
other thought, I went Patients aren’t listed by was sent for treatment, my
searching for my paternal father was left on his own
grandmother. name. But the records He would have been about
t More specifically, I sought 15 at the time, 16 at most
to understand the struggle detail who was served His father was deceased by
she faced to stay alive, then, killed in a trolley car
hoping it would give me during particular years, accident in Mexico City
resolve in these uncertain His two aunts and their
, times. through 1958, categorized families lived in Chicago.
r You see, Grandmother
suffered from the most by gender, occupation and
feared communicable
disease of her generation: nation of origin. Between
tuberculosis.
fiscal 1932-1934, 642
One thing I discovered
was that the public health people were treated, 274
systems that we’re
depending on now — and men and 368 women. They Alone, he went to make
are rightfully criticizing for his way. He found work at a
some basic failures — have Readers can reach Mary included nine who worked restaurant in downtown
their roots in the early Sanchez at Kansas City, living in a hotel
20th century and efforts to in packing houses. Five where he could pay by the
eradicate tuberculosis. msanchezcolumn week.
@gmail.com and follow patients were Mexicans.
The human toll of
tuberculosis, sometimes her on Twitter Grandmother exists
referred to as @msanchezcolumn
consumption, would be among those nameless
difficult to fathom today. By Like COVID-19,
the beginning of the 19th tuberculosis is also a tallies. He was also helping pay
century, it had killed about potentially fatal respiratory for her treatment, which
one in seven of every illness and easily spread by Juana Melendez de could range from $1 to $4
person who’d ever lived. coughing, sneezing or Sanchez brought my father a day, depending on the
merely talking. People once to the U.S. when he was a severity of the case. The
I found myself delving believed it was hereditary. toddler, leaving their home archives discuss such costs
into the online archives of A German doctor in Mexico City. Counties were sometimes
the State Sanatorium for discovered the tube- assessed $1 a day for
Tuberculosis in Norton, shaped bacterium that The family story always people without means
Kan. harbors it. said that she contracted Patients with advanced
tuberculosis while working cases that “have no chance”
My grandmother was It’s much rarer now, in one of the packing would be accepted if
treated there in the 1930s. especially in developed houses that once dotted leaving them in their homes
Such treatment facilities countries, but it has not the Kansas City’s West could infect children.
were built across the banished from the world, Bottoms.
nation to isolate people even with a vaccine. And it
with tuberculosis and offer proved to be a far more Tuberculosis was difficult Grandmother did
them medical care resilient foe than health to manage as a public
augmented with fresh officials of my health issue because it recover. Years later, but
country air and improved grandmother’s era might could go into remission,
diet. have hoped. and a person might not before my birth, she would
show symptoms for quite
Norton is about 350 some time after becoming die of cancer.
miles from Kansas City, on infected.
land near the Kansas- The historical trajectory
Nebraska border. Many of Heavy coughing and of COVID-19 awaits. It may
the original buildings were damage to the lungs are prove to be a longstanding
wooden. Archival notations symptoms. threat or one that we meet
show that when it was built squarely and effectively. But
in 1914, health officials The government’s role in what’s clear is that the
believed that tuberculosis providing chlorinated and coronavirus is not the
would be eradicated by otherwise treated water to deadliest global health
1920. There would be no the public, as well as emergency humanity has
need for more permanent, providing suitable housing, faced.
monitoring food safety and
collecting garbage evolved Attitudes and public
from efforts to end the health systems, shaped
scourge of tuberculosis in from learned experience
will aid us in this challenge.

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Opinion: A different Pearl Harbor

"War" has been declared lives in combat in defense in authority must have the
against the Corona virus of the nation. ability to present or
and its disease Covid-19. recommend presentations
But waging war against any Today's heroes in the of medals. And if that
inanimate object is battle against Corona and means awarding medals for
inherently risky. Consider Covid-19 wear different hundreds of thousands or
how wars against poverty, and even no uniforms. more who display courage
crime, drugs and terror Doctors, nurses, medical and valor over time, these
fared. Still, rallying the technicians and health care awards are well deserved.
nation is essential if this specialists are manning the
viral killer is to be defeated. front lines. Except with a Next, harken back to
virus, no front lines really
exist beyond the need to December 1941 and the
deal directly with the sick.
Recalling a certain Dr. Harlan Ullman is a And many unsung heroes planning that followed. The
parallel with the immediate Senior Advisor at the with seemingly mundane
aftermath of Japan's attack Atlantic Council. He can but as it turns out vitally first White House visitor
on Pearl Harbor on be reached on Twitter important jobs are in the
December 7th, 1941 is fight. was British Prime Minister
instructive. It is December @harlankullman.
8th in Washington. After Winston Churchill who
President Roosevelt's
stirring speech to risked the long journey to
Congress and the
subsequent declaration of Isokuro Yamamoto who meet with FDR and decide
war, how were the public planned the attack
and government grappling understood that "a sleeping on the overall strategy.
with the attack that put the giant" would be awakened.
U.S. Navy's battleship fleet In forty-five months, that Staffs in supermarkets, Churchill stayed over a
at the bottom of Pearl giant had forced Japan (and
Harbor? with allies that May, pharmacies, banks, month. There needs to be
Germany) to accept
unconditional surrender. transportation, utilities and a convocation of world

emergency services to leaders, obviously

include police and electronically, to establish

firefighters along with strategy. And this cannot

others too numerous to be limited to a few hours.

Seventy-five years later, count will be risking their As a comprehensive plan
Corona is a new form of a for victory was fashioned
Pearl Harbor attack lives to carry out the basic in and near the White
catching certainly Western House and adjacent State,
states by near complete yet vital necessities of War and Navy Building, a
surprise, or at least the similar initiative is essential.
Roosevelt had been leadership. And, as with every day life. Wielding The plan must begin with
Pearl Harbor, a few setting achievable aims and
moving the nation towards warnings were issued that masks, gloves and copious be as comprehensive as
would not be taken possible. As plans do not
war for some time, signing seriously. One significant amounts of soap rather usually survive the first
difference is that Pearl contact with the enemy,
Lend Lease to aid Great Harbor was a sudden and than rifles, bayonets, this plan must be flexible
instantaneous shock. It and revised on a continuing
Britain; renewing the draft took weeks for Corona to artillery and other basis.
achieve at least that level of
by a single vote; and signing impact. weapons of war, these

the various Vinson- Americans are the

Trammel naval equivalent of the infantry,

construction bills that built fighter and bomber pilots,

6000 warships before warship crews and other

World War II ended. combat arms personnel on

However, FDR's target was which victory, success or

Hitler and Europe and not failure rest. While focus will be at

the Pacific. The task was What can be done to home, the international
support these brave and
immense: organizing the often invisible Americans? dimension is vital. What is
First, as with the military, a
nation to fight a global war. A similarity with the war system of awards for valor happening elsewhere is
and superior service must
The sense of desperation that followed and today is be established on a national vital to what is happening
basis. As awards can be
and vulnerability was the courage that was and issued at different levels of here. That too must be
seniority in the military,
overcome by anger and will be shown. The governors, mayors, city assimilated and
managers and other people
fury over Japan's "sneak difference is the incorporated.

attack" that Roosevelt so participants. Valor Whether the war
analogy is appropriate or
elegantly described as occurred almost entirely not, this is a titanic struggle.
And it is one we cannot
"dastardly." Were on, under or above the lose!

politicians today so battlefields. Soldiers,

articulate. Japan's Admiral marines, sailors and airmen

heroically risked and lost

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– Friday, at the

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Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - dear doug Understanding

hoarding

Coupon obsession Q: My dad has always
been a hoarder. Every
Q: My wife and I compromise is key. Many room and surface in his
looked forward to home was always
retirement for a long people find the covered in junk, and he's
time. I devoted most of just used to the mess.
my time to a demanding transition to retirement
job and am now taking
my time and enjoying abrupt, and you and your Last year, he finally Doug Mayberry makes the
life. We made enough agreed to downsize after most of life in a Southern
money to live wife have different having struggled with the
comfortably for a long stairs for a long time. California retirement
time to come. perspectives on community. Contact him at
My brother and I
spending. helped him move into a [email protected].
new house and got rid of Emma, Doug's
Many retirees struggle almost all of his old junk.
to figure out what to do I thought it would be granddaughter, helps write
with all the new free new home, new start! this column.
time. Although the Sadly, that hasn't been
We have no serious obvious motivation for the case. Ten months in, their risk of falling at
debts, and our mortgage finding deals is to save his new home is piled up home due to obstructed
is almost paid off. But money, it can also act as with new junk. walkways. It also makes
you wouldn't know our a hobby. it much harder to clean,
financial situation based Why is he doing this and related hygiene
on my wife's habits. She's Your task is to find a again, and what can we issues can cause health
obsessed with coupons middle ground. do? problems.
and deals!
Instead of resenting A. Hoarding is a state Hoarding is a coping
your wife's habit, offer to of mind, not a habit.
Going to restaurants is alternate choosing Look at it as a mental mechanism to fill an
restaurants for date health matter first.
embarrassing. She night. She can find the extant emotional need.
best deal for your dinner Seniors are more
chooses restaurants one night, but then it's prone to hoarding and Hoarders come from a
your turn. When you less able to deal with it.
based on their discounts choose the restaurant, Hoarding can be variety of backgrounds,
ask her not to look at especially dangerous to
and always orders the the prices on the menu. them, as it increases and the disorder is still
It's your treat. -- Emma,
cheapest things on the Doug's granddaughter not completely

menu. We don't go understood. It is often

anywhere nice. associated with

I don't know how to depression or other
bring it up, but this habit
is really getting on my mental illnesses.
nerves. We both delayed
retirement for several Clearing your dad's
years so we wouldn't house out again for him
have to worry about won't fix it. Instead, try
money again. to open up the subject
with him. Does he
We don't have to find realize he has a problem?
bargains for every little He may not know how
thing, and I don't know his compulsive collecting
why she's so into it. I is affecting himself and
want to enjoy life. others.

You may want to

How can I get us on consider finding
the same page?
professional help. Even if

your dad isn't ready to

A: Saving is a good address his problem, you
trait that, like anything
else, can go overboard. can get some

perspective on how best

In any relationship, to help him. -- Doug

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Staff and Volunteers Mobilize to Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life
Deliver Meals on Wheels

Staff and volunteers from the Kenosha County Division of Aging & Disability and KAFASI delivered
frozen meal packs to over 100 Meals on Wheels recipients. To protect KAFASI's mostly older
volunteers, the two organizations are mobilizing to provide coverage during this health emergency.
The meals are prepared by Hoffman House. If you are interested in receiving Meals on Wheels, call
KAFASI at 262-658-0237 to learn more.

Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource
Center service changes during COVID 19 Public
Health Emergency

The Kenosha County Aging & Disability Loan Closet: The Loan & Supply Closet is
Resource Center (ADRC) have put the following suspended until further notice.   Please hold on
preventative measures in place in an effort to to your donations during this time. Once the
provide the best care for our consumers during Loan closet reopens your donations will help fill
the COVID 19 Public Health Emergency.  the needs of those who are waiting.

EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY AND UNTIL The ADRC will continue to monitor this
FURTHER NOTICE: rapidly changing situation carefully. For the most
up-to-date information on ADRC services, visit
Phone lines open: Though our doors are our website, adrc.kenoshacounty.org, or our
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We look forward to having this health
Events and workshops canceled: All previously emergency behind us and returning to offering
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Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Caregiving in a time of
Coronavirus

A message from your Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center

We are addressing but other organs as who has a weak provide care is in a
this to all the family well. Because it is a high-risk situation.
members and friends new strain, very few immune system is at Most persons living
who provide care for people can resist it, no with Alzheimer’s are
persons living with matter how hardy risk not only for over the age of 65
Alzheimer’s disease they may be. Our (one risk factor), and
and similar illnesses. bodies haven’t seen acquiring the illness most persons over 65
The care you provide this strain before, so have at least one, and
is always vital to the our immune systems but is vulnerable to typically more than
quality of life and well- haven’t developed one, chronic illness
being of that person. ways to fight it off. becoming severely ill (the other risk factor).
The Novel Also, there is, as yet,
Coronavirus (i.e. no vaccine, so no with the virus. Two
COVID-19) pandemic medical measures can
places extra burdens yet be taken to factors are associated
on you in providing protect us against it.
that care. We want to with weakened
provide you with
information you can immune response: age
use to strengthen the
effectiveness of your and underlying chronic
caregiving and assist
with your own peace conditions.Those over The CDC website is
of mind during this an excellent source of
time. 60, and especially reliable information:

Some Basic Facts. those over 80 (even
The information
below represents those who seem fit), www.cdc.gov/corona
what we currently virus/2019-
know about COVID- are at higher risk for ncov/index.html
19. We present these
facts starkly because Serious. It is difficult acquiring the illness.
this is a serious
situation. Having good at this time to have a Also, smokers and Local Health
information should
help you to protect very accurate picture, individuals with Department Numbers
yourself and your
person with dementia. but COVID-19 chronic conditions like can be found here

Something New. appears to be a cancer, lung disease,
Novel Coronavirus –
or COVID-19– is a serious disease threat. diabetes, high blood www.cdc.gov/corona
new strain of a virus virus/2019-
that attacks the The Centers for pressure, and heart ncov/downloads/Phon
respiratory system, e-Numbers_State-and-
Disease Control and disease are at Local-Health-
Departments.pdf
Prevention (CDC) increased risk for

include, in their range COVID-19.

of possible futures for Points of Entry. The Guidance for

the illness, a prediction illness enters the body Caregiving. We

that more than half of through the nose, recognize that we are

the US population eyes, or mouth and relatively early in this

could be infected. The then proceeds to the outbreak and that

illness appears to have lungs. This is why we information and

more serious are advised to avoid guidance is coming out

outcomes than the flu, touching our face. It in an ongoing way, so the

and death rate may also enter guidance we are

predictions are higher. through particles in providing is guidance for

Risk Factors. the air. This is why now. It will certainly

COVID-19 requires social distancing and change, and we will

the body’s immune avoiding crowded provide updates as we

system to mount a situations are learn of them. Follow

response to fight it off. recommended. these general rules to

According to the Alzheimer’s and protect you, the person

you care for, and your

World Health COVID-19. The family.

Organization, anyone person for whom you

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General Rules – Please Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life -
follow these rules even if
you or your person has
not been diagnosed with
COVID-19 or neither of
you is showing signs of
it.

Self-Care. The best

protection for you and

those you care for is for

you not to acquire the

virus. Do your best to

stay healthy. Take your

medications as

prescribed and follow

your exercise and rest

programs.

Handwashing and wheels, and other Monitoring. Watch streamed services, or
Sanitizing. If you leave high-use surfaces daily. yourself and your consider using the
the home, always wash Change hand and person for symptoms regular time of
your hands when you kitchen towels daily. (fever, cough, sore attendance as a time
return and frequently Open windows (if throat). Take your of home worship.
during the course of the possible) to increase temperature
day. Cleanse hands for at ventilation. Do not occasionally. • If you take your
least 20 seconds (sing share dishes and person shopping or to
Happy Birthday twice). utensils. malls, reconsider. If you
Use hand sanitizer often. must, perhaps use
Use hand lotion to smaller shops at off-
prevent drying and hours, and avoid very
crowded places. Call
cracking of skin. friends, family, or
neighbors to see if
Do not Shake Manage Underlying Social Distancing. they are going to the
Hands. Avoid direct Remove yourself and store and can pick up
skin-to-skin physical Chronic Conditions. your person from items you might need
contact. Wave; nod; close contact with
bow; give the peace Chronic conditions, groups of people. This • Think about
sign. But don’t touch. is admittedly very outings that present
Do an elbow bump, if such as diabetes, heart difficult, so here are minimal risks: going to
you’re both in sleeves. some thoughts: large parks, taking
And fist bumps? That’s disease and COPD tax walks
skin-to-skin, too. So
don’t. the immune system. • Limit going out to
restaurants – or stop
Adhere to • If you are working altogether. If you
outside the home, see cannot stop going to
management regimens if it is possible to work restaurants, call ahead
at a distance through story continues
to prevent the telecommuting means on next page
(phone and videocall
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surfaces in your home worsening. Ask

using the CDC’s providers to call in

recommended refill orders and see if

solution of 4 the pharmacy can • Examine patterns
of social interactions.
teaspoons bleach per deliver – or has a drive

quart (4 cups) of through pickup

water. Clean door window. Do this for • If you regularly

knobs, sink handles, the medications that attend worship

refrigerator and oven both you and your services, see if your

doors, steering care-recipient take. place of worship offers

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Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Coronavirus & your home and also
visits other homes, ask

Alzheimer’s to review the
procedures she or he
has in place to prevent

continued from you have to fill in those come in to be with the spread of COVID-
previous page times with other your person for brief 19 to their clients.

(or look online or on engaging tasks and periods of time, seek Medical Care.You are

the restaurant’s app) to activities. So, plan for and accept that help, very likely in a position

order take out and see that. Consider the and take yourself for an where you have to

if they can deliver kinds of at-home outing – observing all manage your person’s

curbside activities that seem to the rules when you routine and chronic

• Here’s a really hard please and engage your return (and also the health care as well as
one: family visits. person. Are there ways advice about having to respond to changes
to repeat such help come in). in condition or react in
• Keep them small – activities over the an emergency
one or two people at a course of a day? Are Help from Outside situation. It’s important
time there similar kinds of the Home. If you have to recognize that, with
activities you might try someone coming into COVID-19, you need
• Ask everyone who (if the person enjoys the home to help care to have a plan for how
feels unwell, has come helping with cooking, for your person, then to handle some
into contact with might s/he enjoy the general rules medical situations that
people with the virus, helping with the should apply to them as might arise in the
or has any symptoms laundry)? Try new well.The person should course of
to stay away. Ask all things out and add adhere to hand
others to follow the those to your toolbox washing rules, be urged Primary care
same safety rules you that you see to be to follow good self-
are (wash hands). working well. care procedures, and providers (nurse
monitor him/herself for
• No grandkid visits practitioners,

physicians, physician

• Do not Shake Pay Attention to Your symptoms of COVID- assistants) can bill for

Hands. Avoid direct Own Isolation. If 19. If a home health telehealth with

skin-to-skin physical following the “rules” care worker comes to Medicare and Medicaid

contact. Wave; nod; means you are finding

bow; give the peace yourself more

sign. But don’t touch. homebound, be sure to

Do an elbow bump, if check to see how this

you’re both in sleeves. is making you feel. Take

And fist bumps? That’s some preventive steps

skin-to-skin, too. So before you begin to

don’t. feel a sense of being

More Home isolated. Make

E n g a g e m e n t arrangements with
family, neighbors and
Opportunities. If you friends to have regular
have relied on outings contact. Phone and
– like those listed FaceTime calls can be
above – as a way to
helpful. If you do take
keep your person walks with your
pleasantly occupied person, invite another
during the day, then person along. If a friend
removing them from
the schedule means or family member can

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patients. So, call the first. They may be able if you have an extra action.Try to go out for Your Life -Your
office and see if they to provide advice phone or tablet a walk, call family and
have put procedures in about whether you computer (iPad), will friends, listen to your
place for handling – need to be tested they help the person to favorite music, look at
through a phone call or immediately or if it is use it when you call so scrapbooks or read a
a video call – routine appropriate to wait. If the person can see good book. If you
visits and visits related you do need to be your face. belong to a church or
to any concerns you tested immediately, The staff will synagogue, call and ask
may have. If they don’t, they may also be able continue to provide to be put on a prayer
ask for advice about to direct you to the care and comfort, but list. Many religious staff
appropriate testing you will not be able to are working from
• Handling routine location. In many areas have in-person time home and can respond
and chronic care of the country, the with the person that to your messages. Have
situations that you’d clinic office or may be important to family and friends mail
usually manage by E m e r g e n c y you. If you are alone cards and letters to
bringing the person to Department may not and feeling this as yet them.
the office. be where you can get another loss, take
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• Dealing with may need a provider’s
possible COVID-19 referral before they will
symptoms test you.

• Responding to If you and/or your
emergency situations –
should you call the person are
office first? Go directly
to an Emergency participating in a
Department?
research study, call
If you feel you have
an emergency, but are your research
not sure, and cannot
get through to your coordinator for
primary care provider,
call your local current information.
Emergency
Department. Most have Some studies have
a nurse or physician on
duty who can offer been put on hold;
advice about the need
to come in immediately others may have moved
or wait at home.
to enable contact at a
If you think you or
your person might be distance (e.g., by
showing signs of
COVID-19 and think phone).
you should be tested,
it’s important to call If Your Person is
your primary care Living in an Assisted
provider (or the Living or Skilled
Emergency Nursing Facility:
Department or your
Health Department) It is increasingly likely
that visitors, even close
family, will not be
permitted to visit
relatives in such
facilities.

See if the facility can 031220
help you to make
contact by a distance.
Can they help put a
phone call through? If
the facility has WiFi and

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Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - social security
and you

With a Spouse, Taking
Your Social Security
Early Might Be Better

I'm sure you've seen If you have a Social should wait until I am 70 total of $1,300. (A
websites, or received Security question, Tom and she is 66 and then spousal benefit is always
mailers from financial Margenau has the answer. file on my record, based on your full
planners, that entice you because if she files for retirement age rate, not
with come-on's like this: Contact him at reduced benefits now, your augmented age-70
"Learn the secrets to thomas.margenau that reduction would rate.) So, your wife will
maximizing your Social carry over to the get her retirement
Security benefits." Or, @comcast.net. spousal benefits she will benefit supplemented to
"You may be losing tens eventually be due on my 50% of your $2,600
of thousands of dollars if fun for the past decade record. So, who is right? rate, or $1,300. In other
you don't know this spending our reduced words, in the option you
Social Security secret." Social Security checks. A: I think your wife is think is best, neither of
right. Let's compare the you would get any
If you open the Besides the "eat, drink two options. We'll take benefits until you are 70
website, or attend the and be merry" types like yours first. In your years old, at which point
seminar, here is the me and my wife, there is scenario, no one would you would start getting
"secret" you will learn: another group of people get anything until you $4,732 per month in
delay taking your Social who should seriously turn 70 and sign up for combined benefits.
Security benefits until think about starting Social Security. At that
age 70.And the theory is benefits earlier rather point, you would get Now let's look at
that you will live long than later. And that is $3,432. Then your 66- what your wife wants to
enough to make up for retirees who have a year-old wife would sign do. She wants to start
the money you lose by spouse potentially up for her full taking her reduced
not starting your eligible for benefits on retirement benefit, retirement benefits now.
benefits sooner. their record. Today's which should be about So, she would get $787
questions and answers $1,050. At the same per month for the next
That's probably good illustrate what I am time, she would file for four years. That's
advice for lots of people. talking about. spousal benefits on your $37,776 you guys would
But there are still record and get an forfeit if you do nothing
millions of senior Q: I am 66. I plan to additional $250 for a until your 70th birthday.
citizens who, for a delay starting my Social
variety of reasons, Security until I'm 70. My
choose to take their full retirement age
benefits earlier. For benefit is $2,600. If I wait
example, both my wife until 70, I'd get $3,432.
and I started our Social My wife is 62. She wants
Security benefits at age to file for her Social
62. We were perfectly Security now. She's due
content doing that. We a much smaller benefit.
know that if we live until It would be about $787
a ripe old age, we might if she files now. I say she
end up coming out on
the short end of the
Social Security stick. But
we don't care. We've
been having too much

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And what happens then? wife takes reduced or $2,062.And your wife will get the same spousalour Life -Your Life - Your
Well, you would get retirement benefits, that would get her rate she'd be due now,
your $3,432 monthly decision will have no retirement benefit or an extra $825. So all
check. And then your effect on what she gets supplemented up to you gain by waiting is
wife can claim some as your widow. 50% of your full the difference between
extra spousal benefits Assuming you are both retirement age rate, or your 100% full
on your record. You are over age 66 when you $1,375. In other words, retirement age rate and
right that she will suffer die, she will keep getting she would get her own your 75% reduced
a bit of a reduction in her own benefit, and it $550, and she'd get $825 retirement rate -- or
her spousal benefits will be supplemented up on your record for a 25%. That's about $688
because she took early to your full age-70 rate. total of $1,375 per per month. It would take
retirement on her own In other words, your month. you about 200 months
record. But it's not as wife's spousal rate is to get back what you
much as you think. Here based on your full So if you wait another lose by not filing now.
is roughly how they will retirement benefit. But four years until you are
figure out what she is her widows rate is 66, you will be losing out Here is something else
due. They will take her based on your on $2,887 per month to consider: If you take
full retirement rate, or augmented age-70 you are not getting now. reduced benefits, that
$1,050, and subtract benefit. (That's your $2,062 reduction will carry
that from one-half of benefit plus your wife's over to any widows
your full retirement Q: I will be 62 next spousal share of $825.) benefits your wife might
rate, or $1,300. The month Even though I'm That's $138,576 you will be due after you die. But
difference, $250, will be not working, I have no lose by waiting another since you are seven
added to her reduced desire to sign up for my four years to file. years younger than she
retirement benefit. So, own Social Security is, that might not be
her combined now. My full retirement If you wait until age something to worry
retirement and spousal benefit is projected to 66, you will get your full about.
benefits will be $1,037 be $2,750. I'm thinking retirement age rate of
(as compared with the of waiting until I am 66 $2,750. And your wife
$1,300 she'd get in your before I file. My wife is
preferred option). In 69, and she is getting While too many Americans
other words, your total $550 per month in her struggle to make ends meet,
combined benefits own Social Security. Can the big drug companies continue
would be $4,469, not all she get anything on my to rake in billions. It’s no wonder,
that much less than the record now? considering that they make us
$4,732 in your option. pay the highest prescription drug
A: No, she can't. A prices in the world. If they can
So, if you guys go with woman who is currently afford to spand nearly $175 million for lobbying, and more
your choice, you'd get married to her husband than $6 billion for advertising, then surely they can find
an extra $263 per can't get any spousal some way to lower prices and stop gouging Americans.
month from age 70 on. benefits until her People shouldn’t have to choose between buying
But you would have husband applies for his medication and buying food for our families.
given up the $37,776 in own Social Security. (It's Congress, it’s time to act. Stop the greed.
reduced retirement different for a divorced Cut drug prices now.
benefits your wife would woman. She can get
have been due starting benefits even if her ex SR021320
at age 62. It would take hasn't filed for
you about 144 months retirement.)
to make up that money
you would have lost by Because of those
not letting your wife file spousal benefits you
now. I think you guys guys are giving up, you
better talk about that. might want to think
about filing for Social
And one more Security now. If you did,
thought: You should you'd get 75% of your
know that even if your full retirement age rate,

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Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - In the Words of Lois Cornavirus
Comments
Lois Van Dahm, a long- president and earned
By Lois Stanton Van Dahm 3/15/20
time resident of money for student
Classrooms are empty, no one is teaching.
Kenosha County, super scholarships. Lois has Pews also empty, no pastors preaching.
Schools are closing where children
volunteer and 2019 volunteered for many were playing,

winner of the annual non-profits, including Unaware that their anxious parents are praying.
Athletes are playing to huge cheerless spaces.
Remarkable Older Hospice Alliance,
Very few flying to faraway places.
American Award Kenosha Jail Ministry, Folks form long lines while
doing their shopping.
recently wrote her Kenosha County
Virus reports drone on without stopping.
thoughts on the Association, Home and We stay inside, often washing our hands.
We try to do what protection demands.
Coronavirus in poem Community Education,
Friends dear and near to us,
form. Lois has made a Kenosha Hospital their kindness sharing.

habit of connecting with Auxiliary, Shalom Our families continues their pattern of caring.
Our prayers we offer for this plague to cease.
others throughout her Center, Forest Park
To grant us reprieve and bestow peace.
entire life. Elementary School, 4-H,

Lois, 92, has dedicated Kiwanis Club of
her life to serving
others. In her early Downtown Kenosha,
career she was an LPN.
Later she worked as a First Presbyterian
Home Health Aide for
Kenosha Visiting Nurses Church. Lois and
Assocation and taught
daily living skills to husband Tom combined
clients of the Kenosha
Achievement Center. their volunteer efforts
She served as the
Carthage Women’s Club for KAFASI’s Meals on

Wheels program as well

as serving as Foster

Parents.

We hope you enjoy
her poem.

Lois Van Dahm receiving the Remarkable Older American award last year with Bob Wirch.

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ask amy sequestered in their owned grocery store in Your Life -Your Life - Your Life - Your Life - Your Life -
seniors edition homes, and people are our town. We neighbors
anxious. keep a safe distance
COVID-19 may reveal from one another. But
some basic blessings Every day in the very the shelves are well-
small town where I live, I stocked, and the high
Dear Readers: put a basket full of school kids who bag the
oranges out on my front groceries will also carry
Because of syndication porch with a sign saying, them to your car.
"Help yourself!" Without this store,
scheduling, I write and people in my rural area
The parents who walk would live in a food
submit my columns two by with their young desert. I am filled with
children send their kids relief and gratitude to
weeks in advance of up the sidewalk and have access to good
onto the porch to pick food.
publication. Due to this out an orange. We wave
to one another through
time lag, the Q&A's will You can email Amy the window. The hospital workers,
Dickinson at askamy@amy
not reflect the latest The double-meaning postal workers, first-
dickinson.com of the wording on my
information about the or send a letter to Ask sign was unintentional, responders, supply chain
but I like it. Yes, we all
worldwide COVID-19 Amy, P.O. Box 194, need to help ourselves. providers, teachers
Freeville, NY 13068. You However, I am
pandemic we are can also follow her on constantly reminded connecting with their
Twitter @askingamy or that -- even in our
currently facing. isolation, we should not young students
Facebook. feel alone, and it is
As of this writing, imperative that we help remotely -- I am so
one another.
Americans have started grateful that they are
Most evenings, I stop
a program of social celebrations and at the small family- helping the rest of us to

distancing, isolation, and vacations have been put stay safe and healthy.

in some cases on hold. Many workers

quarantine. Concerts, have been furloughed or When you have so

sporting events, and laid off. Children are many externals stripped

public gatherings have all home from school. The away, yes -- it is the

been canceled. economy seems to be basics that quickly

Weddings, graduations, crashing. Families are emerge as daily

blessings: Good

neighbors. Mostly

reliable wireless service.

Drive-thru Dunkin

Donuts.

For me, visits to the
gym 10 miles away have
been replaced by
solitary walks in the
woods. In the harsh
northern climate where
I live, spring creeps up in
agonizingly tiny steps.
Yesterday, I saw the first
signs of fiddlehead fern
breaking through the
forest floor.

I am reminded that,
despite everything,
spring will come; I hope I
am not forced to wave
at it through the
window.

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books Conservation That Starts while he educates. While
in Your Yard,” Tallamy not all gardeners think of
Too early to suggests a way that any dandelions as weeds,
plant? Grab a homeowner can make a when dandelions take
gardening positive difference. He over a landscape, often
book. calls it Homegrown something must be done.
National Park, restoring Once while appearing as
habitat wherever we live an expert gardener on a
and work, no matter how radio show, he was
small our property may explaining his laborious
be. method of digging out
dandelions when a
Start by halving the size listener called to ask why
he didn’t douse them with
of your lawn, he vinegar.

recommends. Then think

about planting native

Are the best garden pantry item to get rid of plants instead of Asian and What a revelation! Plain
vegetables – the juiciest weeds more ecologically
tomatoes, the spiciest and cheaply than noxious European shrubs and old white vinegar,
peppers, the crunchiest chemicals.
cucumbers – the result of trees. Keystone trees that undiluted, applied
what happens in the
warmth of summer? Many he says are most helpful generously on a hot (78 F
gardeners believe that the
most productive gardens Homegrown National include oaks, cherries, or warmer) sunny day.
have their roots in winter. Park
That’s when they think willows, and Generous dollops kill
about helpful advice
they’ve gotten from When Douglas Tallamy cottonwoods. For plants, almost any weeds.Vinegar
gardening friends and
neighbors, and from wrote “Bringing Nature he recommends also works well on weeds
garden books they’ve read
when it’s too chilly to be Home” in 2009, people blueberries, goldenrods, growing between cracks
working outdoors.
were aware of the asters, and sunflowers. in sidewalks. It will also kill

problem of increasingly Any native plant will the surrounding grass, but
help – keeping in mind
disappearing wildlife. The that you’ll want to have there’s a solution for that,
something blooming all
book became a bestseller three seasons – but those he says. Wait a few days
keystones will have the
by pointing out what many most impact. Tallamy after spraying to punch
explains his vision and
people hadn’t realized: answers questions from holes in the affected part
skeptics while showing
Native animals, birds, and that every person can of the lawn with a large
help bring back beautiful
insects were becoming monarch butterflies and screwdriver. Then drop
other wild creatures.
extinct because they were Ordinary people, he grass seed into the holes,
believes, are “nature’s best
No matter how long starving for certain native hope.” apply organic lawn food,

you’ve been gardening, plants that are a major and keep the area moist.

there’s always much to part of their diets but In three weeks, grass will

learn from those who also were increasingly be growing.

like to dig in the soil. And unavailable. Instead of When planting spring-
flowering bulbs, most
this results in better planting native oaks, cities longtime gardeners know
only one way to avoid
gardens and easier were now setting out squirrel damage: Plant
bulbs that are poisonous
gardening. For instance, callery pears along their to squirrels – daffodils,
hyacinths, and fritillaries.
did you know that streets. And due to But what if squirrels
destroy your tulips, a
honeybees don’t pollinate construction, milkweeds Practical wisdom favorite of theirs? Those
who have well-drained soil
your tomatoes? A book and fall-blooming asters Ciscoe Morris is a well- (no clay) should plant
known gardening expert tulips 12 inches deep,
explains that while were no longer available in the Pacific Northwest. Morris says. That’s deeper
Formerly head gardener than squirrels will usually
honeybees (a European in fields to sustain at Seattle University, he dig.
likes to tell amusing tales
import) get all the press migrating monarch of his gardening
experiences. In “Oh, La La!
about vanishing butterflies. Caterpillars Homegrown Stories,
Helpful Tips, and Garden
pollinators, you need that wild creatures Wisdom” he entertains

native bees to produce depended on for food

tasty tomatoes. And a weren’t there when they

longtime gardening expert needed them.

tells how he learned In “Nature’s Best Hope:
A New Approach to
about an inexpensive

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succulent gardens

probably aren’t practical

for those in colder parts

of the country. But Eaton

offers plenty of valuable

style tips for those far

from California.

When planning tabletop

container gardens, she

suggests choosing

containers in unique

shapes and finishes

because they’ll be seen up

close. For the best

appearance, be sure to

cover soil and edges of

nursery containers with

moss.Then make sure you

can see over the top of

the planter when seated.

Also remember to give

the plants adequate light,

The best pollinators gardening. In “Everything started in Athens, particularly indoors.
Georgia, in 1891), the
Paige Embry, author of for the Garden,” three writer explains that When you’re not sure
“Native Bees: North women in Victorian times about selecting plants that
America’s Endangered noted historians and a became members because will look right in your
Pollinators and the Fight they liked to read about small garden, Eaton makes
to Save Them,” prefers curator for Historic New gardening more than they these suggestions:
native mason bees over actually wanted to get
honeybees, which aren’t England share their their hands dirty.
able to pollinate her
favorite crop, tomatoes. knowledge and Small is beautiful
While honeybees came
from Europe with the enthusiasm in a quartet of If you live near Santa • Focus on leaves over
colonists, there are 4,000 Barbara, California, as blooms.
kinds of bees native to the essays. These include a garden designer Isa Eaton
United States and Canada. does, you’ll find a
nostalgic look at garden cornucopia of delightful • Think long term, with
She says that mason gardens in “Small Garden perennials, and less about
bees rarely sting, they’re catalogs from the 19th Style: A Design Guide for showy annuals.
superb pollinators, and Outdoor Rooms and
they’re easy for novices to and 20th centuries and an Containers.” Year-round
raise.They’re also available
to work earlier in the exploration of early • Stay with one or two
season than honeybees colors.
are, since they pollinate American gardens, many
when temperatures range
about 54 F. Honeybees of which were inspired by
pollinate best when the
temperature is above 65. photographs of estate • Limit the types of trees
to two varieties.
Armchair gardening gardens in Britain. In an

When it’s too hot or essay about the social • Choose plants that
cold to go outside, it’s still match the available light.
fun to read about revolution and the rise of

garden clubs in the United By Judy Lowe

States (the first was

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'Thank you for not food package from front
stealing our toilet paper' porch

Colorado Parks and raiding the park's March 23 (UPI) -- A dropped the package off
Wildlife is offering an bathrooms for supplies. California resident's at our doorstep with a
unusual message of doorbell camera was 40lb bag of dog food and
gratitude to state park "Thank you for not recording when a package then 20 minutes later our
visitors: "Thank you for stealing our toilet was swiped from their local teenage bear stole
not stealing our toilet paper!!!" the sign reads. front porch by an unusual the box from our front
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Parks and Wildlife the box and eat half the
An electronic sign at the posted a photo of the sign The video, recorded bag of dog food," the
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State Park, which thus far porch of a Crestview
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Jeff Schmidt

SR032620

money economist at Grant
Thornton, said "growth is
Fears of recession likely to be flat to negative
rise again in seven of the 10 largest
economies in the first
The Fed made a rare, about how consumers quarter," including China,
may react to the virus, Japan, Germany, the UK,
but not unprecedented, which could create a France, Italy and Canada."
demand shock (spooked She believes global growth
intra-meeting rate cut of people may pull back on Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a will slow to 1.8% in 2020,
spending). CBS News business "well below the 2%
threshold that indicates a
analyst. A former options global recession."
trader and CIO of an
half a percentage point on Swonk thinks that "a
investment advisory firm, recession cannot be ruled
March 3. In a unanimous she welcomes comments out." El-Erian increased
the odds of a 2020
decision, officials said that and questions at recession in the US to as
[email protected]. high as 50%, up from his
despite an economy that The sharp tip of the prior assessment of 25
Check her website at percent.
remains strong, "the economic impact from www.jillonmoney.com

coronavirus poses coronavirus has already better shape than the rest
of the world, because
evolving risks to economic been seen in the travel, manufacturing accounts
for only 11% of GDP and
activity." tourism and hospitality tourism accounts for 2.9%
(the corresponding shares
Regarding the hope for industries, as companies for Italy are 15% and 13%, I'm often asked what
respectively). But that
confidence building, enact travel bans and down not mean that the people should do if a
country will escape the
economists were not organizers all over the impact of the virus. slowdown were to occur.

convinced. Mohamed El- world are canceling The virus has prompted The answer is simple: pay
economists to slash
Erian, chief economic conferences and trade growth estimates for the down outstanding
year. Diane Swonk, chief
adviser at Allianz, shows; the energy sector, consumer debt (not home

explained that the which is coping with oil loans) and be sure that

problem that the Fed faces prices that have plunged you have an adequate

is that it can't address the by more than a quarter; emergency reserve fund

supply shock (not enough and tech and chip of 6-12 months of living

stuff available to sell) that companies that are unable expenses (12-24 months if

occurred because China to fulfill orders without you are retired) socked

was shut down for at least precious Chinese away in a savings, checking

a month. However, the components. or money market account.

central bank is worried Still, the U.S. may be in

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food

Kicking the
sugar habit

Most of us -- despite -- Reduce sugar in baked fruit is associated with
being around our kitchens goods by adding overripe
more due to this COVID- bananas, applesauce or weight management and
19 seclusion -- are all dates instead of sugar.
about trying to break the weight loss, especially in
sugar habit. It's not that -- Rather than cutting
sugar is banned from a Charlyn Fargo is a the acid in a tomato sauce people trying to lose
healthy diet; it's just that registered dietitian at Hy- with sugar, try adding
it's easy to overdo sugar Vee in Springfield, Illinois, grated carrots, butternut weight. In a study
consumption. squash or sweet potatoes.
and the media published in Frontiers in
One of the problems is representative for the -- Replace the sweets in
that sugar wears many your diet with fruit. Nutrition journal,
disguises on a food label. It Illinois Academy of
can be called honey, Nutrition and Dietetics. -- Toss fresh or dried randomized and
coconut sugar, brown For comments or questions, fruit into your oatmeal to
sugar, corn syrup, agave, replace some of the sugar. controlled trials found
brown rice syrup or maple contact her at
syrup. Sugar is added to [email protected] or Q and A that increased
68% of packaged foods follow her on Twitter
and drinks in the U.S. Q: Should I eat fruit to consumption of whole,
Being mindful of products @NutritionRD. lose weight?
that contain sugar -- and fresh fruit promoted
how that sugar is labeled - A: Eating whole, fresh
- is a way to begin weight management and
reducing your sugar.
weight loss over a 3- to
Sugar can be in plant-
based milks, nut butters, 160 calories, or 10 24-week period.
bacon, ketchup and even
chicken stock. Naturally teaspoons from added Researchers also found
occurring sugars in fruit,
veggies and even milk sugars per day. The that eating a piece of
typically don't need to be
on your worry list, as they American Heart whole fruit before a meal
come bundled with
nutrients, fiber, vitamins Association recommends helped with weight loss.
and antioxidants.
even less -- 100 calories
It's the added sugars
that are a problem. The from added sugar, or 6 recipe
U.S. Department of
Agriculture recommends teaspoons a day.
limiting added sugars to
10% of your daily calories. How to break the sugar
For a 1,600-calorie diet, habit?
that means no more than
-- Read ingredient lists, REFRESHING WALDORF SALAD
and choose low-sugar
options. 1/3 cup nonfat Greek yogurt Greek yogurt, mayonnaise, lemon
juice and honey until smooth. In
-- Reduce your stress. I 1/2 cup walnuts, toasted, coarsely medium bowl, toss together the
know it's hard in times like chopped toasted walnuts, celery and apples.
these, but a workout, walk, Pour the dressing over the salad,
hobby or other diversion 2 tablespoons mayonnaise, and toss to combine. Makes 4
will be much more helpful preferably made with canola oil servings.
than a sugary snack.
1 teaspoon lemon juice • Per serving: 200 calories; 4
-- Get enough sleep.We grams protein; 19 grams
make much better -- and 1 teaspoon honey carbohydrates; 14 grams fat; 3
healthier -- choices when grams fiber; 85 milligrams sodium.
we're properly rested. 1 cup chopped celery

2 medium apples, chopped (about
2 1/2 cups)

• In a small bowl, combine the

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Two 'underground' vegetables join
forces in a soup you'll want to share

Seeing beautiful piles of have risen in recent years sunchoke and fennel soup. nutty richness. (I also
produce in a market stall - thanks in part to farmers include a potato to lend
and talking with the markets are sunchokes When you bring cooked the mixture just a touch
people who grew them and fennel bulbs. I like to sunchokes and bulb fennel more body, as well as a
encourages cooks to try think of them as both together in a pureed soup, large shallot for its
vegetables or fruits that literally and figuratively something marvelous sweetly oniony aromatic
they may once have been "underground" vegetables, happens. That licorice note.) The result is an
wary of tasting through because they grow flavor recedes to become elegant, beautiful soup
unfamiliarity, much in the beneath the soil and once subtly herbaceous, while worthy of a special dinner
way that toddlers were little known to the the sunchokes harmonize party, especially if you take
sometimes instinctively general public. What's perfectly with their mildly the optional extra step of
turn their heads away especially interesting and deep-frying some thinly
when introduced to new pleasing to me is how well sliced sunchokes to add a
foods. they complement each delightfully crispy garnish
other, as you'll see when like miniature potato
Two of my favorite you make my recipe for chips.
ingredients whose profiles

recipe The name Wolfgang Puck inch (2.5 cm). Clip a deep-frying
is synonymous with the thermometer to the side of the skillet
SUNCHOKE AND FENNEL SOUP and heat the oil to a temperature of
best of restaurant 375 F (190 C).Alternatively, use a
Serves 6 to 8 shallot and fennel. Cook, stirring hospitality and the countertop thermostat-controlled
1 lemon, juiced, squeezed halves occasionally, until the vegetables are ultimate in all aspects of electric deep-fryer, following the
reserved fragrant and begin to look translucent, the culinary arts. The manufacturer's instructions.
1 cup (250 mL) water 5 to 6 minutes. famed chef has built a
2 pounds (1 kg) sunchokes brand that encompasses • Working in batches to prevent
1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil • Drain the diced sunchokes and add three companies: Wolfgang overcrowding the skillet, fry the
1 medium shallot, diced them to the pot along with the Puck Fine Dining Group, sunchoke slices until golden brown,
1 pound (500 g) fennel bulb, trimmed potatoes, followed by the 3 cups of Wolfgang Puck Catering, stirring occasionally with a wire
and diced, small fronds reserved for stock and the salt. Bring to a boil, and Wolfgang Puck skimmer, 3 to 4 minutes. Using the
garnish reduce the heat to a simmer, cover, skimmer, transfer the chips to paper
1 medium baking potato, peeled and and cook until the potato and Worldwide, Inc. towels to drain; sprinkle with some
diced sunchokes are tender, about 10 salt.
3 cups (750 mL) vegetable stock or minutes. Stir in the remaining lemon ground black pepper, and, if you like,
broth, plus extra as needed juice. sunchoke chips. • Once the chips have cooled
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt completely, store in an airtight
Coarsely ground black pepper, for • Working in batches if necessary and SUNCHOKE CHIPS container at cool room temperature
garnish following the manufacturer's 1 pound (500 g) unpeeled sunchokes, until needed.
Sunchoke Chips (recipe follows), for instructions for pureeing hot liquids, scrubbed clean
optional garnish carefully transfer the soup to a Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
blender and blend until smooth; keep 1 tablespoon kosher salt
• Put half of the lemon juice and a pureed batches in a clean bowl, and
squeezed lemon half in a mixing bowl then carefully transfer the pureed • Fill a large bowl with cold water.
with the water. Peel and cube the soup back to the pot. Stir in more With a sharp knife or a mandoline,
sunchokes, and put the cubes in the stock as needed to reach a fluid carefully cut the sunchokes into thin
lemon water. consistency you like, and gently reheat slices about 1/16 inch (1.5 mm)
• Heat a stockpot over medium-low the soup over low to medium heat, thick, immediately dropping them into
heat.Add the olive oil and then the stirring occasionally. a bowl of cold water to prevent
browning. Rinse and drain the slices 3
• Ladle the soup into heated serving times, and pat them very dry with
bowls, garnishing each serving with paper towels.
chopped fennel fronds, coarsely • Pour enough oil into a large, deep
skillet to reach a depth of about 1

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pet world she stops, call her to you
and ask her to sit. Then
Train cat to use Cathy M. Rosenthal is a give her a treat.
scratching posts longtime animal advocate,
and stay away author, columnist and pet You won't stop her from
from furniture, expert who has more than barking at people
woodwork altogether, but you can
25 years in the animal work to redirect the
Dear Cathy, I have a Also, use double-sided welfare field. Send your behavior, so she doesn't
cat that is clawing the tape or put aluminum foil pet questions, stories and continue to bark or think
woodwork all over the over those same areas. it's OK to go after your
house. He had even dug Cats hate these textures tips to guests.
out the wood and I had to and will usually try to [email protected].
use filler to fix it. I'm avoid them once they Dear Cathy,
always sanding, repainting know they are there. You can follow her
and staining. I have used @cathymrosenthal. I have two adult Yorkies
the spray from pet stores I know some of these who, believe it or not, still
and the double-sided tape. strategies haven't worked a cat to scratch on a need to be housebroken.
How do we stop this? I for you yet, but this is to different surface, so be When I let them out in my
never catch him in the act, be used in combination patient. back yard each morning,
so I can't stop him. with attracting him to the they will usually defecate. I
places where you want Dear Cathy, I have a also let them out in my
Is he missing something him to scratch. 10-year-old pug. She runs back yard during the day.
in his diet? -- Joan, and barks at my son's In the evening, I take them
Canton, Connecticut To attract your cat to girlfriend when she takes for a walk after they have
the new cat trees, spray her dog out and at my had their dinner, and they
Dear Joan, Your cat is them with pheromones therapist when she leaves. defecate and urinate.
normal. All cats must and leave treats at the No one else. She almost During the day, they use
scratch their nails to keep bottom of the tree for the nips them. the pee pad but still have
them healthy. If your cat is cat to discover. Your cat accidents off the pee pad.
kept inside, he needs a few will likely be drawn to the Why would she run at
cat trees of varying sizes tree where he may eat the them like that? --Mary, What can I do besides
and textures, like carpet, treat and stretch his claws. North Las Vegas let them outside more
sisal or cork, to scratch If you see him do this, often and give them treats
instead. reward him with another Dear Mary, It's hard to when they finish their
treat or praise. You might say why a dog barks at business? They're both
Because your cat has even try rubbing a little some people and not rescues, so I don't know
established his scratching catnip onto the cat trees others. In the case of your their ages or if they were
preferences, you're going to further pull him in the son's girlfriend, it could be ever crated. Are they ever
to have to train him to use right direction. she is directing her too old to be crated? --
the new posts. When you barking at her dog and not Linda, Farmingdale, New
do witness him scratching It can take time to train her. As for the therapist, York
the wood, use a can of no one can know for sure
coins or a Pet Corrector why, but some dogs do Dear Linda, When dogs
that makes a hissing sound bark at people when they are trained to use pee
to interrupt the behavior. leave, so it's not entirely pads, they sometimes
Next, spray the places you unusual. think that means they can
don't want your cat to pee in the house so long
scratch with Bitter Apple. While you can't stop a as they find something to
dog from barking, you can pee on. Unless they are
stop her from continuing very old dogs, you can see
to bark, although it can be if they will tolerate some
a challenge. Try to crate training when you
interrupt the barking by are off running errands. If
shaking a can of coins or they are crated for short
using a Pet Corrector that periods of time, they may
emits a hissing sound. If be able to hold it better
until you get home.

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Nursing home residents play life-sized
Hungry Hungry Hippos

Residents at a nursing bins attached to poles t
try to grab as many bal
home in Wales passed the as possible from th
middle of the circle.
time during lockdown by
"Everyone in the hom
adapting the board game team and residents ar
worried about the virus
Hungry Hungry Hippos Michelle Williams, gener
manager at Bryn Cely
into a life-sized Care, told CNN. "But w
are staying positive an
competition with doing what we do ever
day, which is supportin
residents in wheelchairs our residents, and keepin
it as normal as possible."
playing the "hippos."

The Bryn Celyn Care to Facebook showing The video shows
Home, which instituted a residents and staff playing residents in wheelchairs
lockdown March 12 to a life-sized game of being pushed back and
protect residents an staff Hungry Hungry Hippos. forth while using plastic
from the coronavirus
pandemic, posted a video

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hometown seating chart and I had to And then came my own
columnists sit behind the suspected HPV diagnosis, at a time
contagion and grade his when I had no idea what it
Contagion, Fear, papers and workbooks, was besides how a nurse
and Feels in the my little frizzy head nearly explained it as an “STD
Time of Corona exploded. A straight-A that can cause cervical
student who was terrified cancer and/or genital
of disappointing any adult, warts.” Rest assured, I
I always immediately did monitored it daily with a
my homework when I hand mirror for any signs
returned home from of “and/or” symptoms.
school. One night, my
My germophobia can be Hi, I’m DeAnna L. Fabiano, A mom noticed that I hadn’t Nine years later, I’m
traced back to a very firm believer that the graded another student’s teaching at a large public
specific time in both workbook that was high school and the world
health and news history: unexamined life is not worth hidden in the bottom of goes missing as a new
when Magic Johnson living, I value self-discovery my book bag. She brought virus becomes a
announced that he was and enlightenment above all my classmate’s workbook pandemic. One of my
retiring from the NBA else. In a previous chapter, I into my room and laid it favorite students “fake
after testing positive for was a curious lil’ bookworm down on top of my coughs” on me and I
HIV. who grew into an aspiring bedsheets where I was momentarily forget that I
neatly tucked in. All the am an adult in a public
It was November 7, professor. blood rushed to my semi- setting and that I am not
1991. I was 6 years-old Find more at functioning head. I supposed to scream at
and kneeling a foot away deannalouisefabiano. successfully played it cool children. This is my own
from the TV, with bulging wordpress.com/ because I was still twenty personal worst nightmare:
eyes and a “boy’s” haircut years away from accepting a viral contagion that
that I insisted on having. And so began the the fact that I was a full- shuts down earth. I wholly
By some miracle from the handwashing. Every day blown basket case. support social distancing.
gods of precocious after school, I’d run to the Each time a friend on
children worldwide, I had downstairs bathroom Twenty years later, I was social media shares a post
already seen the 1989 where no one could hear volunteering at a at a bar, I message a fellow
film, The Ryan White or see me and obsessively homeless shelter that had social distancer in horror
Story, that chronicles a 13 wash my hands, a bed-bug outbreak and of the non-distancer’s lack
year-old Indiana boys’ sometimes 30 times. Later living with someone who of information, regard,
contraction of HIV from a coverage of Greg had Type I Diabetes. trust, or fear.
contaminated blood Louganis hitting his head Terrified that I would
transfusion. I never before on the diving board at the bring home an illness that Some things have
had been so captivated by 1988 Seoul Olympics and his compromised immune
anything on TV. watching the movie system couldn’t handle, I changed since 1991. I’ve
Outbreak would further religiously followed an
fill my sponge-brain with anti-contagion routine: stopped scrubbing my
images of AIDS monkeys
and the fear of touch. I • Cover car seats with hands and genitals with
was convinced that a boy garbage bags. Change
The 32 year-old Magic in my 1st grade class who daily. antibacterial soap. I’ve
resembled Ryan White
Johnson announced his and who always had a • Leave winter jacket in accepted that I cannot
runny nose was HIV car as to not infect.
retirement and diagnosis positive. So when the control everything and
teacher made a new • De-robe in the garage
while my brother danced immediately upon arriving trying to do so is
home.
in front of me, obscuring exhausting. I no longer
• Shower immediately,
my view of the TV. So washing body, hair, and consider myself a
coochie with antibacterial
offended by soap. germaphobe, and such

this brief interruption, I neuroses don’t seem to

instinctively punched him align with my “dirtiness”

right in the balls. This was that dominates my

also the first time that I’d personality. I’d bathe in

be filled with violent rage mud; I go weeks without

by any threat, minor or washing my hair; a

major, to my access of “whore’s bath” is my

information. preferred cleansing

mechanism; I abhor

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antibacterial anything; I’ll can I handle that so, can be released by in our bodies and with
stay at a $25 dollar airbnb; happening to someone I our actions.
and I’ve eaten food out of love? I can’t control when new, positive physical
the trash; because donuts someone else is in pain; I There is great
should not go to waste. can’t take it away. And I experiences or emotional and sometimes
think that for most of us, physical risk in touching,
But I’ve also gotten sick we’d rather feel that pain reacticated by similarly reaching out, giving love,
and recovered.A lot of my than have someone we being open, and feeling,
worst case scenarios love go through it and not traumatic events. Italy was especially now. While I do
came true and I am fine be able to do anything not think that the
and the world still turns. I about it. ravaged by this disease immediate “now” is a time
had a strange feeling of where the reward of
strength and calm when and there’s various touch and close contact is
this whole thing started. worth the risk, there
One good thing about hypotheses: an older seems to be no better
being a bonafide, lifelong time in history, a time
bundle of nerves is that population, densely where we believe feels are
you learn how to deal and a bad contagion, where
can help others. I feel like populated, and resources the reward of coming
I have been mentally together and breaking
preparing for moments that never saw this isolation of all kinds
like this since 1991. (social, economic, racial,
Being isolated like this coming. age) and of truly letting
More curiously, the has been a great reminder ourselves feel is greater
epicenter of my of the power of I’m half Italian; my dad than the risk of not
germophobia has shifted. acceptance- acceptance of immigrated here in 1958 changing.
In 1991, I was afraid of my lacking control and of and is very Italian. I don’t
contracting and suffering my own and others’ look very Italian, but I do Being human comes
from a virus myself. I was humanness. I miss other some pretty stereotypical with the risk of being a
afraid of getting sick and humans- even the Italian things like shout, contagion. I’ve seen the
dying young like Ryan assholes at the bar. I know talk with my hands, eat a curve of my own anxiety,
White. In 2020, I am that there has been and lot, talk too much, rage a and when fear peaks, we
terrified of passing it will be serious changes to little too often, hold a must choose stagnancy or
along- of being a walking world populations and grudge, and kiss people on adaptation. Middle school
contagion. I’d love to get economies, but this both cheeks when I’m posters with Garfield and
on my worn-in high horse slowing down and utter drunk. Italians are a Obie on them hold life’s
and believe that this is pausing of life has gotten people known for their secrets the same as Bob
because I care about most of us to value our passion, touching, and Dylan lyrics; it is better to
others more than myself, lives and loved ones a bit feeling – for both the ups have loved and lost than
and, in a way, I do, but I’m more. This happens a lot- and downs of loving and to not have loved at all
not sure that my concern we have an imminent living a bit too much, and and the times they are a-
for others’ health which threat and hold our loved with that great passion changing.
now overshadows my ones a little tighter. comes a fear of losing.
own doesn’t lack its own Structures, barriers, and
superiority, self-interest, But then we forget. One of my favorite old ways of doing things
and fear. teachers told me that will collapse.And while we
Our minds will with faith, there is no fear literally are the most
My fear of being a or anxiety- that when you physically distant we have
walking contagion may be remember schools truly feel that you aren’t in ever been as a country,
an avoidance of feeling control, your anxiety economic, social, and
guilt or responsibility for closing, Italians singing, begins to dissipate. As communal connectivity is
getting someone else sick. someone who is basically teeming beyond the
It’s mostly a fear of not toilet paper vanishing, and anxiety embodied, I want curve.
having control. I can to believe this. And
manage getting sick two old democrats anytime I want to believe
myself, suffering, and the something, I first try to
worst case scenarios. But elbow-bumping. But our poke holes in it- with my
head. I haven’t been able
bodies will recover from to do that yet. And I think
that “feel” is the operative
the tense feeling that we word in this sentiment. Of
course we know that we
are getting when aren’t in control of
everything; of course, our
somebody coughs or rational minds know
better. But enacting and
reaches out for a feeling it is a whole
different thing that begins
handshake or a hug; that

feeling that the air is

poisoned; and that feeling

that each person walking

by is a threat even at 6-10

feet distance.

There is the idea that
our bodies keep the
score- that trauma lives in
our bodies and in doing

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