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The numbers keep rising. We are inundated with data about the modeling of cases, when the apex will hit and how to flatten the curve. New York City is the epicenter of the outbreak with 72,000 people testing positive and the death rate climbing to 2,500. We are all at risk.
I guess I can be considered one of the lucky (recovered) statistics, but two weeks out from my traumatic hospitalization, I am still left with the feeling, “this is no joke.” We had returned from a planned family vacation in the Caribbean on Sunday, March 8 when the warning signs were just beginning to be noticed. The airports were still filled with travelers, and we were being admonished to cover our coughs and wash our hands regularly. I began to feel signs of fatigue that week – a slight cough, some nausea and what we now know as the telltale sign of re-
duced appetite and lack of taste. I went about my business and was probably in a state of denial that something could be seriously wrong. Yes, my age (68) put me in a high-risk category but my underlying health was excellent. I continued my regular four-day-a-week exercise routine, alternating between my mile swim one day and the aerobic joy of the elliptical and weight machines. A week later, however, the signs that something was not right began to creep up on me. Walks in Central Park were
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A police officer with gloves and mask takes no chances earlier this month. Photo: Todd Maisel
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MISSING OUT ON A MEETUP COMMUNITY
A freelancers group on the UWS has to forgo their weekly get-together BY ANGELA BARBUTI
Working from home may be an adjustment for many New Yorkers, but not for the city’s freelancers, who are accustomed to spending their mornings alone behind a computer while clutching a cup of coffee, possibly still in pajamas. Now, a group of them are missing a weekly get-together they’ve been going to on the Upper West Side for the past two years. The Meetup group, “Freelancers Starting the Day Together,” which usually meets every Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Da Capo cafe on Columbus Avenue, was created to unite and motivate those who don’t have a tradi-
tional office to report into each day. The group’s members are mostly writers, filmmakers and graphic designers, though some were starting a new business or transitioning careers. Melissa Held, a graphic designer from the West Village, said, “I work from home and joined the group so that I’d have more contact with others who also work alone. It’s been a fun, more social way to start the day and then I feel totally content to work on my own.” The group’s founder, Marina Tempelsman, worked at the corporate headquarters of Meetup, an online platform that assists in putting together groups of people with similar interests, for four years. A comedy writer, she was hired to write for a pilot two years ago. “At that point, I left Meetup in the hopes that the pilot would get picked up for a full series. So we worked
on that for a couple of months and then it didn’t get picked up, so suddenly I was like, ‘I don’t have colleagues anymore.” Although teaching sketch comedy classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade and directing kept her busy, Tempelsman craved both the sense of community and routine she had in the past. “I missed having the solidarity of being around other people and needed a little extra motivation to actually start my day because I’m not a morning person,” she explained. She quickly realized that looking to her former employer would be the solution, and the idea for the Meetup group was born. As for the venue, she felt Da Capo had the pleasant atmosphere conducive for the socializing and networking she had in mind. For the first year, their meetings were held on a couch in the back of the cafe.
Before social distancing: The “Freelancers Starting the Day Together” group at Da Capo. Photo: Angela Barbuti
However, on one fateful morning, that sofa had already been claimed. Tempelsman asked if they could use the back room, which is usually closed during the day, and the rest is history. Having a large, private room in Manhattan just for the group has also helped foster a sense of unity. “They were so nice about just letting us use the space,” she said. Photographer Max Gordon, a native Upper West Sider, credits the group with awak-
ening the creative centers in his brain with stimulating conversation in a non-business setting. “As a freelancer, everything is very much client and project-based and they’re different schedules, so having something that’s not just a work thing is nice,” he said. Like Gordon, most members are Upper West Side residents, but there are a few who traveled farther for the sense of camaraderie. “There have been people who have
come in from New Jersey, Tribeca, the West Village, the Upper East Side. There’s a guy who would stop by on his commute in from Westchester,” Tempelsman, who is also a native Upper West Sider, explained. The average turnout is six, with the largest attendance on record being 15. “I’ve never been the only person to show up though,” she said, smiling. Due to concerns over social distancing, Tempelsman has temporarily suspended inperson meetings and is looking into videoconferencing options. The group is still active online, sharing resources for freelancers during this uncertain time. A link to their meeting place, Da Capo’s GoFundMe page, has also been posted. As the group approaches its 100th Meetup, she said, “I can’t wait to get people back together in real life … Seeing both new and familiar faces of members every week has been such a joy for me, and the situation we’re in right now is a reminder of how important those in-person connections are.”
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CAMPAIGNING IN A CRISIS POLITICS
New York candidates shift focus of campaigns amid coronavirus pandemic to community service BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
At the start of March, Cameron Koffman felt like his campaign for New York State Assembly was really hitting its stride. He had just opened a storefront office on the Upper East Side and was in the heat of petitioning, with volunteers out on the streets gathering signatures every day. The community in the 73rd District, he thought, was responding well to his message. “It was really about being in the community as much as possible,” said Koffman, who, if elected, would be one of the youngest assembly members
A lot of people do need help right now. It’s just about reaching and getting in touch with them.” State Assembly candidate Cameron Koffman ever at age 22. “We really had a lot of momentum.” By the second week of March, the city was consumed by a public health crisis. Quickly, the entire state was shut down by the coronavirus pandemic, and it was no longer very clear to Koffman — with a Democratic primary slated for June — what to do next. The question he and all other candidates for office were now facing was: How does one continue to engage voters amid a global pandemic?
The answer that Koffman and other candidates in New York have come up with is to pivot their campaigns to provide a community service. His campaign organized a day of action, in which his volunteers made calls to seniors to see if there was anything they need. “We went to Trader Joe’s for someone. We went to the pharmacy for someone. We did someone’s laundry,” said Koffman. “A lot of people do need help right now. It’s just about reaching and getting in touch with them.”
Disruption for Patel Suraj Patel, a Democrat looking to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney, has similarly pivoted his campaign to focus on community service. Patel’s campaign was similarly making grocery and pharmacy deliveries to voters in need, but stopped once the shelter in place order came down. His volunteers are still
Suraj Patel, running to unseat Rep. Carolyn Maloney, contracted coronavirus in March but has since recovered. Photo courtesy of Suraj Patel
checking in on seniors and have delivered handmade greeting cards to senior centers and NYCHA housing. “It’s been received so well,” said Patel. “People are scared and they’re isolated in their
homes.” But perhaps the pandemic’s biggest disruption for Patel’s campaign has involved his own health. In March, Patel contracted the coronavirus.
“I began experiencing a troubling tightness in my chest and difficulty breathing followed by a regular fever of 102 degrees. I live with two
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#WHENTHISISOVER I’LL VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER REFLECTION
BY ANMARGARET WARNER
By Anmargaret Warner When this is over, I’ll tell my neighbors: I’m so glad to see you. (And I’ll really mean it.) The mother with the two toddler girls at the end of the hallway. The man with the wiry-coated doggie who wags his tail when we share an elevator. The couple who I sometimes hear argue outside my door. When this is over, I’ll ask for the names of the baristas in the coffee shop across the street from where I live.
When I stop by on weekend mornings for an oat milk cortado — and a currant rosemary scone if it’s time for a treat — we won’t be such strangers anymore. I’ll try to revive my thirsty plants: Aleafa Franklin. Bobby Plant. The unnamed cactus that sits by my cookbooks. And the unnamed succulent that sits by the window. (When this is over, I might even give them names!) I’ll visit my 94-year-old grandmother. She’s healthy — she stretches each day and takes afternoon walks — but I know I’ve taken her sturdiness for granted. I’ll use an audio recorder to capture our
time together. And while we talk, I’ll hold her wrinkled hand. And she’ll tell me “your hand is so soft” and I’ll remind her that her hands are soft, too. When this is over, I’ll go meet my new niece. I’ll greet her with a gentle hug in the nook of my arm and a kiss on her forehead. And I’ll smile at her tiny toes and furled fingers, when this is over. Anmargaret Warner is a student in the M.S. Class of 2020 at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Printed with permission from Columbia Covers COVID-19, a Medium website showcasing work from the Columbia Journalism community.
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MEMO TO TRUMP AND DE BLASIO: DON’T DISTORT HISTORY VIEWPOINT
BY MICHAEL ORESKES
There is one thing President Donald Trump and Mayor Bill de Blasio agree on: this is not the time to blame them for having soft-pedaled the impending coronavirus crisis. OK, there is a case for this since, as the mayor says, our laser focus right now must be on helping the ill and curbing the virus. But in exchange for this we should ask them for one thing. Stop saying things that distort history to explain away that soft-pedaling. Just this weekend on national television, the mayor fended off questions on why he attacks the president’s re-
sponse when the mayor, too, was slow to warn New Yorkers and shut down group activities that spread the virus. “We all were working, everybody was working with the information we had,” the mayor claimed. For his part, Trump said on March 10, “well, this was unexpected.” Nine days later, he proclaimed, “I would view it as something that just surprised the whole world.” And on Tuesday, March 31, he said that what “nobody knew about this virus is how contagious it was.”
these statements from the president and the mayor are exculpatory nonsense. They are all, provably, false. The mayor did not listen to information he had. His own health department became alarmed in January about the virus in China. This newspaper reported that on Tuesday, March 10 – when the president was saying how unexpected this was and the mayor was refusing to close schools – the deputy New York Health Commissioner was warning doctors about the imminent danger.
Alarms in January
Transmission Rate
My generation of journalists was trained not to call public officials liars. That restraint has fallen out of fashion, so I will simple say that
The first articles about this new illness appeared right after New Year’s. On Jan. 2, 2020, The South China Morning Post described an out-
break of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, “sparking fears about a return of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).” On Feb. 24, a World Health Organization mission to China reported the transmission rate of the virus was “a relatively high” 2 to 2.5, meaning each infected person spread it to at least two others. The United States pays a lot of people to track things like this. Yet the President insists he and the world were surprised and did not know how contagious it was. To be fair, Trump and de Blasio were not alone in their deafness. “This was a new disease which the West didn’t really understand,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, who led the WHO’s mission to China. “So
there was a lot of, I think, cherry picking of those aspects of the disease that were least unsettling to us. Rather than really preparing.” We should just stipulate that we did not prepare as well as we could have. But right now we need clear and trustworthy direction from public officials. The peak of the COVID-19 epidemic in New York State is now projected for April 10. One closely followed model forecasts that 855 New Yorkers will die that day, according to the model’s authors at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at The University of Washington. Our president, our governor and our mayor have one task: guiding us through this to a better place this summer.
They can find guidance from the greatest crisis manager in our history, Abraham Lincoln. In the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln counseled one of his military officers not to waste energy debating critics. “If I were to try to read, much less answer, all of the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.” All we can ask of our leaders is the very best they can. But we have a right to demand that.
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with next month’s rent. Both Patel and Koffman said it’s completely understandable that the June primary would not be top of mind for most New Yorkers; however, the two candidates did say that the way the pandemic has been handled by the government, particularly at the federal level, reinforces their messages that change in representation is badly needed “In front of our face we are seeing the repercussions of decades of sky high inequality, of a safety net in tatters, and of people in Congress that have no clue how to make payroll or who have had a regular job in decade,” said Patel. “We’re still about 100 days out from my elections but I think there’s no doubt that people in my district are seeing this and thinking, ‘Wow, I really think we need
pretty dramatic change.’” As campaigns continue to adjust to a New York under lockdown, Koffman has put out a plan aimed at addressing the challenges of the political process in the midst of a global pandemic. “Don’t Let Coronavirus Stop Democracy” has nine major tenets, including online sign-ups for absentee ballots, using the unemployment rolls to find poll workers, and a suspension of petition and ballot challenges. “As Governor Cuomo says, we’re all hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. But we cannot let the virus become an excuse for us to go against our shared values,” said Koffman. “We do want to see the city, and the entire country, really adapt to make sure we still have participatory politics.”
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The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire That Changed America
TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 3PM New York Adventure Club | livestream only | nyadventureclub.com Museum curator Debbie Wells, a descendant of one of the fire’s youngest victims, shares the story of the March 25, 1911 tragedy and the way it led to stronger labor unions and fire safety regulations ($10).
Online Event: Marie Mutsuki Mockett Presents “American Harvest” with Marlon James
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15TH, 8PM The Center for Fiction | livestream only | centerforfiction.org Mockett shares her experience—from a Bohemian upbringing to crossing “the divide” to travel with the evangelical harvesters who work her family’s land (free).
BRINGING FOOD, HOPE AND HUMANITY SENIOR LIVING
A catering company’s founder retools her kitchen to deliver meals for housebound seniors BY LIZ NEUMARK
As the coronavirus began to shutter the city and my catering company, Great Performances, the staff began to retool the kitchen for the unexpected. Within days, we started to produce and deliver the first of 40,000 weekly meals for the Department for The Aged to housebound elderly, no longer able to go to their local senior center for meals and company. In times of emergency, we are feeding the most vulnerable New Yorkers and keeping our family at work. This is what we want do, instead of staying at home. The term is “to pivot.” Before the days of COVID-19, we had a robust kitchen staff working daily to produce high-end menus for dozens of events daily at elite venues, private homes and cultural institutions. Not today. There are no parties, gatherings or celebrations. We are each isolated at home, and if we are lucky, in the company of someone we love. But every day, email brings another message of need in ways we never envisioned; we are hired to fulfill requests to send meals to heroic and overworked hospital staff, day care centers, beleaguered pantries and community cen-
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The smallest act of kindness right now can truly change someone’s life.” Sara, event planner for Great Performances
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ters serving communities facing unprecedented need. Our kitchen is busy preparing and packaging these meals, wanting to do more for others. We are motivated by the sense of urgency. Instead of serving Spring galas, our waitstaff fan out into designated neighborhoods with lists of where to deliver meal packages for the elderly. Sara is one of our event planners whose job vanished. Instead, she has been delivering meals: “It was amazing to see the production of these meals in our busy kitchen that would have otherwise been empty right now,“ Sara said. “Many of the seniors I saw lived alone, and a lot of them told me they hadn’t seen anyone in a few weeks, wondering when I would be back again. One woman asked me to please stay and talk to her for a few minutes and she told me about her children and grandchildren who live upstate. She asked when I
thought she would be able to walk to the Senior Center and see her friends again, I didn’t have an answer for her. I took the elevator back down and cried with a maintenance worker who had heard me and said that we have given him faith in humanity right now, what an amazing thing we were doing. I think I will remember this moment for the rest of my life.” Sara added: “Being able to help in some very small way has been extremely rewarding and definitely has put things into perspective. The smallest act of kindness right now can truly change someone’s life.” Kevin, an actor and longtime party captain, organizes the delivery teams. He is experiencing a personal sense of gratitude not often felt when passing trays of hors d’oeuvres or serving a room of hundreds: “We make a lot of deliveries, and everyone is always appreciative. But once a day
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HOLIDAY RECIPES FOOD
What to cook for Passover and Easter, BY LIZ NEUMARK
MATZOH BREI Ingredients:
■ 6 sheets of matzoh ■ 2 tablespoons of butter ■ ¼ teaspoon of olive oil ■ 2 eggs, beaten ■ ½ teaspoon of Kosher salt ■ ½ Teaspoon of freshly ground pepper
Directions:
In a large mixing bowl, break the matzoh into 3-inch pieces by hand Add Water to cover the dry matzoh and soak for 3-4 minutes Drain the water well Use half of the salt and pepper in the mixture and add the eggs. Gently fold with a flat spoon to cover all the matzoh with the eggs In a large non-stick skillet add the butter and olive oil and put a medium flame on to melt and heat the pan When butter and oil are melted and blended pour the matzo mixture into the pan and flatten (pancake style) Cook for 3-4 minutes per side
Top with the remaining salt and pepper. Serve with apple sauce and/or sour cream
BUTTERFLIED AND ROASTED LEG OF LAMB WITH CUMIN RUB AND MINT PESTO Ingredients:
■ ¼ cup olive oil ■ 8 cloves garlic, minced ■ 2 ½ teaspoons salt ■ 1 teaspoon pepper ■ 3 tablespoons ground cumin ■ 2 tablespoon dried oregano ■ 1 5-pound leg of lamb, boned and butterflied
For the mint pesto:
■ 1/2 cup toasted pine nuts ■ 3 garlic cloves, peeled ■ 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese ■ 1/2 teaspoon salt ■ 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper ■ 1 1/2 cups (packed) fresh mint leaves ■ 1/2 cup packed fresh parsley leaves ■ 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice ■ 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil
Method:
Preheat the broiler and adjust the oven rack to the upper or middle position. Line a roasting pan with heavy-duty foil and set a wire rack in it. Whisk the oil, garlic, salt, pepper, cumin and oregano together. Spread the mixture
on both sides of the lamb and let it sit for one hour at cool room temperature; or about 20 minutes if your kitchen is very warm. Place the lamb on the wire rack and set it under the broiler. Broil the lamb, moving the pan as necessary to brown it evenly, about eight minutes. Turn the lamb to the second side and continue to broil until it is well browned, about eight minutes longer. Remove the lamb and let it rest for 10 minutes in the pan. Meanwhile, lower the oven temperature to 325 degrees. Place the lamb in the oven and roast it for 40 minutes to one hour, or until a thermometer placed in the thickest portion registers 130 degrees. Remove the lamb and let it rest. Prepare the pesto. Combine the pine nuts, garlic, Parmesan, salt and pepper in a food processor; pulse the mixture until it is smooth. Add the mint, parsley and lemon juice; process until smooth, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula. With the machine running, gradually add the oil through the feed tube and process again until smooth and creamy and serve with the lamb.
For more of Great Performances’ collection of Easter and Passover recipes: https://www.greatperform ances.com/blog/tag/Passo ver+or+Easter
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— maybe twice if you’re lucky — there is someone who is so grateful and touched that it makes your heart break. Those people most especially put a very human face on what we’re doing.” We look forward to returning to our lives as caterers for galas, weddings, special
Matzoh Brei. Photo courtesy of Great Performances
events and crowded celebrations. But we remain hospitality professionals regardless of the meal we are serving – leading with care and respect, knowing that every meal is meaningful, most especially now. It is an act of courage and resiliency. It is an act of faith.
Despite our fears, it is in our nature to help others. We do it with food, bringing hope and humanity to those who need it most. Every conversation ends with the same words: Be careful, stay safe.
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DON’T STOP THE MUSIC PERFORMING ARTS
Staying home doesn’t have to mean staying away from music and dance performances
BY MARY GREGORY
Surprisingly – and it seems everything is surprising these days – though New York’s great stages, concert halls, theaters and museums have closed temporarily, many of our cultural treasures have become more accessible to more people than ever before. Live streamed performances, online broadcasts of past per-
Facebook Live and other platforms have brought artists and audiences together virtually. Staying home doesn’t have to mean staying away from our arts organizations, nor does it mean we can’t keep supporting them, so they can continue creating wonders for seasons to come.
Across Lincoln Center Lincoln Center at Home is a new gateway to the great music and dance we love and more. There are popup classes given on Facebook Live daily at 10 a.m. by dancers, musicians, songwriters, set designers and artists to keep learners young and old engaged and active. The Metropolitan Opera has promised
formances, Instagram TV, Ballet Hispánico’s 50th anniversary celebration has moved online and is open for all to enjoy. Photo: Rachel Neville
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s Kirven Douthit-Boyd, Alicia Graf Mack, and Demetia HopkinsGreene in “Revelations.” Photo by Gert Krautbauer
to stream a title from its Live in HD every evening till the curtains rise again, with broadcasts in the coming week (at 7:30 p.m.) including Verdi’s “Don Carlo” and “Macbeth,“ and Bizet’s “Les Pêcheurs de Perles.” There are concerts from the Chamber Music Society weekdays at 12:30 p.m., recordings from Jazz at Lincoln Center, a barre class with Julliard’s Alicia Graf Mack, and performances from Lincoln Center Offstage that took place in studios, museums, and clubs. A calendar is available to help you plan your must-sees. lincolncenter.org/lincolncenter-at-home The NY Philharmonic has created NY Phil Plays On to bring music, musicians and audiences together virtually. There are over 150 hours of content, including YPC Play (young people’s concerts with lessons and games). Recordings of past concerts are available at a click. For context, there’s a searchable archive where you can learn about the history of the orchestra. There you’ll meet harpist,
Stephanie Goldner, the orchestra’s first female member, who’s being highlighted as part of Project 19 a multiseason initiative commissioning new works by 19 female composers to celebrate the centennial of American women’s right to vote. It’s particularly moving to watch the We Are NY Phil @ Home videos. There, you’ll see musicians in their tee shirts, in their dining rooms, in all their intimacy and brilliance, making music together virtually or alone, but making us feel as though we’re sitting in a chair opposite them. As for all arts institutions, the economic effects of COVID-19 have caused difficulties for the NY Philharmonic. If you’ve got a ticket for an upcoming performance, you can donate the cost back to them, rather than requesting a refund. nyphil.org/playson
Ballet Hispánico and Alvin Ailey Two spectacular dance companies are celebrating anniversaries this season.
Both are sending their art and love to audiences virtually. Ballet Hispánico had great plans for its milestone 50th season. Artistic director Eduardo Vilaro put together a program that was scheduled to run at the The Joyce Theater, celebrating the work of generations of renowned Latinx artists. Now, premieres of new performances as well as favorites from the past are being presented in their Instagram series, B Unidos. Videos will be posted every weekday featuring members of the professional company, teachers from the dance school, and their Community Arts Partnership. Says Vilaro, “Social distancing does not mean emotional distancing. Ballet Hispánico was founded upon and has always believed in the importance of reaching and servicing our community through dance and culture.” If you want to reach back, use the “Support” button on their website, ballethispanico.org. instagram.com/ballethispanico/ Ailey All Access went live on March 30th, the anniver-
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sary of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s first performance. The website is bringing dance and dancers into people’s homes with streaming performances, as well as classes, workshops, and conversations with Ailey dancers. Among the offerings is Ailey’s groundbreaking masterpiece, “Revelations,“ a monumental, uplifting, inspiring work of art. See it, and be enriched. The Ailey School’s students can access lessons from home, and Ailey Arts In Education & Community Programs will share recorded dance classes for grades Pre-K through 12 with lessons in West African style dance, Hip-Hop, Jazz, and Modern. There are also videos sessions of Ailey Dance for Active Seniors. The idea, they state, is “to build community, uplift with Ailey’s artistry, and celebrate the indomitable human spirit through dance.” Again, support for the organization is just a click away. alvinailey.org/ailey-all-access If you’ve only dipped a toe into social media, or haven’t even done that, this might be the time. All kinds of treasures await on Instagram, through Twitter, and on Facebook Live. You can use any name you want, and you don’t have to have followers or post anything. You can just watch, listen, dance, see films, and attend vicariously. It helps to remember that many of these organizations are scrambling to provide content and deliver the balm of music, dance, and art. Some of the calendars and websites are works in progress, so it may take a few tries to find your favorites. No one said an expanded mind, an uplifted spirit, or enlightenment come easily, but through the generosity of our beloved cultural institutions, for the moment, they’re free.
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not easy. I began to feel out of breath quickly. My wife, Susan, would continue to walk while I sat down on the nearest bench. It was becoming clear that the incidence of COVID-19 cases had taken a turn upward in the city. However, it was not easy to overcome my stubbornness and insistence of others that it was time to call the doctor. I left a message and he called me back the next day. He prescribed a strong dose of azithromycin and an albuterol inhaler for my shortness of breath.
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Confusion Around Testing None of this seemed to work. I had no fever, though, and the conventional wisdom that week of the rapidly spreading virus was that a fever was the telltale sign. There was much confusion around testing so I doubted I would be eligible. I could just ride it out despite the waves of nausea and loss of appetite I was experiencing. I woke up Sunday morning, March 22, a week after I began feeling ill, and headed to the kitchen as is my morning habit. Susan had gone into the living room. I was about to pour myself some orange juice when the room began to spin. The next thing I knew I was lying in a pool of blood on the kitchen floor, having gashed my face on the counter on my way down. Fainting is scary. Susan rushed in and had the presence of mind to call 911. She implored the EMS worker not to take me to the hospital since the virus cases there were on the rise. The paramedic was having none of it: “Get his shoes and socks on, take his coat and tell me what hospital you want to be taken to.” In retrospect, we were grateful for her no-nonsense approach. It is true that those first responders are heroes. Susan was not allowed to accompany me in the ambulance. I saw her wave to me through the rear window, a tear in her eye, wondering if I would be OK. No family members are allowed in the age of the virus. The Mount Sinai emergency room that Sunday morning was not crowded. I
Stephan Russo in Mount Sinai. Photo courtesy of Stephan Russo
was attended to relatively quickly by nurses and doctors in their PPEs. I was more concerned by my aching gashed head than by anything else. One of the ER doctors noticed that my blood oxygen level was low and that there was some abnormality in in my lungs. They swabbed my nose and tested me for COVID-19. It was now standard procedure for someone with my symptoms. Hours later, the test came back. I was positive. I was put on oxygen and told I would have to be hospitalized. I had what they diagnosed as COVID-induced pneumonia. By a stroke of luck — my passing out, smashing my head and ending up the ER, I was now in a safe space and being taken care of. Would I just have continued to suffer at home and never be tested without the accident? The vicissitudes of the virus make this somewhat of a crapshoot..
On Lockdown I spent two nights in the hospital. They had converted the orthopedic floor to a COVID-19 wing. The nurse said the other day they had two patients – now they had twenty and were anticipating many more. I was placed in a room with another COVID-19 positive patient. He was in much worse shape than I was. He had an oxygen mask, spent the entire night wheezing and coughing and could barely speak. The next day he was taken to the ICU and put on a ventilator. I think to this day, “Did he make it?” There was a surreal feel to the hospital. The staff would come in and out, changing their masks and disposable gowns. You were not allowed
to leave your room. You were on lockdown. Bless the souls of those workers who were kind and caring in an everchanging environment of new protocols and tough decisions. You could tell they were struggling as well, yet doing the best they could. The second night in the hospital, I was off the oxygen and my vital numbers were good enough for them to send me home the next day. I was a moderate case and the hospital needed the space for the more serious cases to come. The hospital attendant wheeled me out to the street, gave me two masks and gloves, hailed a taxi on Fifth Avenue and I was at my West Side home in a few minutes. I didn’t share a word with the taxi driver – gave him a twenty-dollar bill and thanked him. The entire experience was eerie. Susan and I spent the next seven days in self-isolation, never crossing paths in our apartment. She had some symptoms and had been told by the ER doctor that she that she was likely positive, too. She was never tested but we are now fully recovered and staying home like everyone else. From what I understand, I am not contagious and probably have some level of immunity. I consider myself lucky. I was taken care of “under the wire.” The virus has spread like wildfire over the last two weeks with medical resources stretched beyond capacity. I’m not sure others will be so fortunate. Stephan Russo is a West Side Spirit contributor, and an Upper West Side resident since 1975. He served as the Executive Director of Goddard Riverside Community Center from 1998-2017.
Easter, with its message of life and rebirth, has inspired some of classical music’s best pieces. Check YouTube for recordings of your favorites. Two great options include the 1956 recording of the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s “Messiah” performed by the New York Philharmonic with Leonard Bernstein conducting and the original 1971 Broadway cast recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar.” For more modern tastes, Worship Together has compiled a lengthy roster of Christian contemporary songs for its Easter 2020 playlist. To listen, download the Spotify app on your smartphone, computer or tablet and search for “Worship Together.”
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Don a Bonnet While the annual Easter parade up Fifth Avenue doesn’t comply with current social distancing recommendations, being stuck at home is no reason to skip the frills. Sites like Pinterest offer tutorials on how to create your own show-stopping toppers for children and adults alike, while the blog Mad Hatters NYC (www.madhattersnyc.com) offers great bonnet inspiration from Easter parades past. Less crafty hat seekers might consider turning to local artisan Orlando Palacios of Worth & Worth for clean lines and timeless designs. While the boutique at 50 East 57th Street is closed, the shop is taking orders online at www.hatshop.com.
Tune In New York City churches will offer an Easter livestream to suit everyone come April 12. Christ Church, a United
Methodist congregation on the Upper East Side, posts its Sunday Worship Service videos and program PDFs online at 6 a.m. each week. Visit www.christchurchnyc.online to watch. Midtown’s Calvary Baptist Church will broadcast its Easter service live via its Facebook page (www.facebook.com/CalvaryBaptistNYC) at 9:30 a.m. St. Patrick’s Cathedral — which has been streaming Catholic mass since the Archdiocese of New York canceled services on March 14 — will air its Easter Sunday Solemn Mass at 10 a.m. (www.saintpatrickscathedral.org/live). The Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine will broadcast its service at 11 a.m. via its website (www.stjohndivine.org) and Facebook LIVE. The Right Reverend Andrew ML Dietsche, Bishop of New York, is scheduled to deliver the sermon.
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Sloths eat very slowly. They eat mostly leaves and fruit. Because they move so slowly, they don’t go looking for watering holes. They get their water from the fruits and leaves they eat.
Sloths move so slowly that algae and fungi grow on them. This is a good thing because the algae makes their fur look a bit green. This helps to camouflage them when they are hanging from branches in the rainforest.
loths can swim faster than they move on land. And because they can slow their heart rate to one-third of its normal pace, they can hold their breath for a long time. Find out how long they can stay underwater by adding the 10 numbers along the correct path of 5 this maze.
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Sloths digest food slowly. It can take up to a month for a sloth to digest a single meal, according to the Jacksonville Zoo in Florida.
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Sloth: More Than One Meaning Sloth is the name of one of the world’s slowest moving animals. And it is a word that means lazy, slow-moving, lack of effort. Look through the newspaper for three or more other words that have more than one meaning. Cut out each word and write down its different meanings.
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COUNTING COVID-19 HEALTH
And learning what counts BY CAROL ANN RINZLER
Centuries ago, Plato wrote that “a good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers.” COVD-19 proves him right because the numbers we see may not be reliable, causing problems for people attempting to craft protective plans. “As elected officials we usually look to scientists and medical professionals for advice on how to protect the public from diseases like this,” said State Senator Brad Hoylman. “But what’s so menacing about COVID-19 is that the scientific experts don’t have many answers at this point, either.” Start with the simple question: how many people are actually infected? Researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
School of Public Health estimate the average incubation period of COVID-19 is about five days and that nearly all people who are infected will start showing symptoms in about 11 days, which validates the Center of Disease Control and Preventions (CDC) 14-day quarantine period. The complicating factor is that American epidemiologists estimate as many as 25 percent of those carrying the virus show no symptoms at all, a figure high enough to make it virtually impossible to say how any cases we have and difficult to predict whether the pandemic is rising, remaining stable, or falling. Next up: How lethal is this virus? That is, what percentage of the people who contract it will die? Scientists calculate a disease’s mortality rate as a ratio that looks like this: Number of deaths divided by number of cases = mortal-
ity rate. Attempting to use this formula for COVID-19 runs smack into two hard walls. First, again, is that the only number of cases we know about is the number that have been diagnosed. The second problem lies in how we characterize the number of deaths.
Mysteries in Numbers British pathologist John Lee, a consultant of Rotherham General Hospital and former clinical professor of pathology at Hull York Medical School, explained to The Spectator that in the current climate, “anyone with a positive test for COVID-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the COVID-19 designation on the death certificate — contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind. There is a big difference between
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COVID-19 causing death, and COVID-19 being found in someone who died of other causes.” Walter Ricciardi, scientific adviser to Italy’s minister of health, agrees: Italian doctors, he told The Telegraph newspaper, are reporting deaths caused by coronavirus even if the patients were already sick from other things. Finally, there is one seriously strange statistic to emerge from the COVD-19 data pool, the suggestion that men are more susceptible than women to the virus. The
first explanation, in China, was that the initial victims, workers in the Wuhan market, were all men. Then came numbers from Spain’s Institute of Health Carlos III showing that men accounted for 59 percent of the COVID victims admitted to hospitals, 60 percent of those who progress to pneumonia, 72 percent of the intensive care unit admissions, and 65 percent of the deaths. In France, 73 percent of intensive care unit admissions are men; in Norway, 75 percent; in Britain, 71 percent. Because COVID-19 is respira-
tory illness, it seemed sensible to blame smoking for the difference between the genders, but when tested, it turned out the difference between make and female smokers was minimal. Eventually, the COVID-19 mysteries will yield to scientific investigation. Until then, stay safe. Wash your hands. And keep your distance. Carol Ann Rinzler is the author of more than 20 books on health, including “Nutrition for Dummies.”
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What’s selling out in the pandemic: flour, yeast, thermometers — and puzzles BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
The coronavirus pandemic has presented New York with stark and obvious challenges, as the death toll keeps rising and medical personnel and resources are overwhelmed by demand for care. It’s also presented challenges to those who are trying to do their part by staying home, which has been to adapt to life confined to a New York apartment. In this attempt to adapt, many have tried to bring the resources of the outside world to their homes. Others look to simpler forms of entertainment. Some try their hand at the culinary arts. And still, there are people panicbuying essential supplies for their apocalypse bunkers. All of this has resorted in a number of out-of-stock items as well as weeks-long delays in shipping, and some are realizing they might just have to do without.
The Essentials These products were going out-of-stock before going outof-stock went mainstream. It’s been one month (only one month, if you can believe it) since the panic-buying began in stores across the city. Toi-
let paper, paper towels, hand sanitizer, disinfecting wipes, rubbing alcohol have vanished from shelves about as soon as they appear, if these items do at all. The shortage of these essential goods could very well create an entire generation of hoarders, packing closets with hand sanitizer and toilet paper “just in case.”
Everyone’s a Baker There are only three kinds of people during this quarantine: those who’ve baked bread, those thinking about baking bread, and those wondering why every single person they know is baking bread. If you scroll through your social network of choice — your Facebook, your Instagram, your Twitter, and maybe even your TikTok — you’ll find your friends, both real and virtual, talking about their sourdough starter as though they have birthed new life into this world. They’re very proud of their sourdough, and they have their eyes set on a nice focaccia recipe they plan to try this weekend. The cult of carbohydrates has caused a shortage of flour and yeast in the city. If you plan on jumping on the bread bandwagon (and what a tasty wagon that would be), you may have to search a little harder for those ingredients.
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Thermometers As is now well known, a fever is a common symptom of COVID-19. Buying a thermometer has become a practical matter — and for some, an essential matter — to ensure you’re free of fever. Taking one’s temperature has been a calming task for those with anxiety, which can manifest physically, and sometimes, present as symptoms of the virus, like chest tightness. As a result, thermometers have quickly become very difficult to find.
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Travel editor Peter Greenberg on his new daily routine and the long-term effects of the pandemic BY EMILY HIGGINBOTHAM
Peter Greenberg has lived in his Upper East Side apartment for his entire life; and yet, he has probably spend more consecutive days in his home in the last few weeks than since her was a teenager. As the travel editor for CBS, and host for a PBS travel show, Greenberg visits approximately 35 countries traveling more than 400,000 miles each year. “I’m going to Beirut like some people go to Starbucks,” Greenberg said in an interview with Our Town. Greenberg’s last venture was to St. Kitts in the Caribbean before jetting back to New York to shelter in place with his wife. Now, just like everyone else in the city, he’s figuring out how to adapt his life to the times.
What were some of the trips you were supposed to go on in the next month?
There are about 25 trips that were canceled or postponed range from Australia, to Vienna, from London to Norway, from Hawaii to Alabama, to speeches I was doing in both Palm Springs and Cancun, two seminars and conferences in New York and Chicago. And the list goes on. From March through July at this point, everything that was on my calendar is no longer on the calendar. Most of it has been postponed, but none of it has been guaranteed.
What is it like to be sedentary after being on the go 24/7 for so long?
You say sedentary — I’m a frequent traveler between my bedroom and the living room. Come on! What I have been doing is every night, I make a list of about — normally I make a list of about 70 people on a call the next day, anyway — but now that number 70 has a different definition, with very few exceptions. That 70 number represents people I’ve known all my life from all over
the world that I haven’t talked to in a while. And now I have the time to talk to them. And now I’m checking in on everybody. I have no other agenda, other than to call and say hi, and I find that very therapeutic. It’s keeps us connected. And, and it in many cases opens the door to so many new conversations and ideas.
What is your new daily routine like at home?
It has become a routine now, which I never had before. What I’m doing now is every two days — I thank my wife for this — at five o’clock, we take a walk up to 96th Street and Fifth to the playground I used to play in when I was a baby and then go around the bridle path and take one walking lap around the reservoir, which up until now I haven’t done since I was like 16. And then if we need to, stop at the grocery store and then walk home. That’s our constitutional if you will. I’m still getting up at four in the morning. I’m still doing a ton of emails, making a lot of international phone calls. Then doing my doing my radio show. That’s my CBS show. And then, I get to do something in the afternoon I never got to be before: take a nap. Then we have our walk. And then when we come back, I guarantee you I do not miss “Jeopardy” now. And I have to tell you in the last few weeks, I figured out I’ve won about $212,000. Virtually, of course.
Have you noticed anything that’s different about your neighborhood now that you have time to walk around?
Yes, and it’s not good. If you walk up Madison Avenue between 42nd and 96th Street, what you’re now seeing, which you don’t really see in a taxi or an Uber, but you can’t miss it if you’re walking, which I’m doing a lot of now, is every third store is vacant. Those were the stores that — if you do your homework — were probably vacant before coronavirus. And then what you’re realizing are all the restaurants that are now closed.
What long-term effects do you see the pandemic having on the travel industry?
Peter Greenberg on Madison Ave: “The last time I walked up the middle of an empty Madison Avenue was at 2 a.m. on the morning of September 12, 2001.”
We’re going to see fundamental change … in the way we travel, and how we travel and how we spend our money to travel and what assurances we will demand before we travel. So you will see when we do get that green light, we will see an explosion in what? Domestic travel. Drive travel, car vacations, RV trips, trips under 500 miles. Because people will
Peter Greenberg: “My favorite places in the world are all surrounded by, or on the water. Until I can travel again, I take daily walks around the Central Park reservoir, getting my water fix.” Photos courtesy of Peter Greenberg want to take baby steps, but they still want to get the hell out of the house. No international travel is going to happen successfully for the airlines or the hotels, and this also applies to the cruise lines unless there’s a fundamental change in traveler assurance — meaning either a new kind of travel insurance policy, or where travel providers do self insurance to give travelers the option to cancel without penalty, or to fly them home at the first outbreak of any sort of virus. Without that, the subtext here is nobody’s going to get on a plane and fly over a large body of water.
What are some other destinations in the world where you wouldn’t mind getting stuck and quarantined?
Southern Turkey right on the Mediterranean. I would think Tasmania. I would think Lucerne, Switzerland. There are some
beautiful islands off the coast of Colombia. And what are all these places share in common? They’re on the water, right, every one of them.
Is there anything you’ve learned from staying put for the last few weeks? My father told me many, many years ago, it’s not about being good or bad, right or wrong, left or right, or a winner or a loser. It’s about adjusting; it’s about how well you adjust, how quickly you adjust and how sensitively you adjust. And guess what? America is now learning — whether they like it or not — how to adjust. And let’s hope we adjust.
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