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Hochul lifts school mask mandate infection rates that really validated the rationale and the logic behind ensuring that we had Gover nor Kathy Hochul those masks in place through announced on Sunday that the those spikes, especially the Omistate requirement for children in cron variant.” school and child care to wear Hochul used a series of large masks indoors would end on diagrams to demonstrate her use Wednesday. of positivity rates, hospitalizaHochul likened the Covid-19 tions, CDC guidance, and consulpandemic to a “war tations with “the that has been unfoldeducational commuing for the last two nity, whose voices years, where our needed to be heard – country has been our commissioner of under siege by this education, our parunseen assailant — ents, our PTAs, our one that has taken school superintenthousands of lives of dents, our school Americans and New administrators, and Yorkers.” our school unions,” In defense of the in the process of mask requirement deciding whether or so far, Hochul said not to require masks. that when she was KAtHy HoCHul From a high sevsworn into office six Governor en-day state average months ago, her priof 14,167 pediatric ority was to get chilCovid cases on Jan. 10., with 38 dren back to school, but that children hospitalized, the numwearing masks was the best way bers have dropped steadily for 48 to guarantee children’s safety at days. The most recent seven-day the time, especially since no average of pediatric cases was pediatric vaccine was yet avail- 226, and only seven children able. were hospitalized. “We’re going to talk about Hochul said the current numwhere we came from in these bers represent “our lowest point last six months,” Hochul said, in pediatric cases since July of “and you see the spikes and the Continued on page 12
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Courtesy Ania Kulghytska
ANiA KulGHytSKA, weARiNG a vishivanka, the Ukrainian national shirt, which sharply distinguishes her cultural identity from that of Russia.
Local Ukrainians speak out Friends, relatives endangered by invasion By ReiNe BetHANy rbethany@liherald.com
Hor rified by Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, four Ukrainians living near Freeport expressed anger at Russian President Vladimir V. Putin’s tyranny, and admiration for their own nation’s heroism. “We have not been able to sleep for the past six days,” said Ania Kulghytska, a Bellmore real estate agent who once tended bar at Rachel’s
Waterside Grill on the Nautical Mile. “I have friends and family everywhere, all over Ukraine. When you call your friends and your family, if they don’t pick up right away, your heart stops.” Kulghytska, 32, was born in Ukraine about two months before the Soviet Union dissolved in 1989. Ukraine became fully independent from Russia in 1991, and she grew up with an unshakable sense of identity as a Ukrainian rather than a Russian.
“I was pretty much in the first generation where we were taught that we were an i n d e p e n d e n t c o u n t r y, ” Kulghytska said, “with our own language, our own government. We’ve got a democracy; we’ve got freedom. I think [Putin] is another Hitler, the way he has this delusional view that he wants to bring back the Soviet Union, and Ukraine is his.” Her words were echoed by the Rev. Wasyl Hrynkiw, pasContinued on page 11
e are in a much, much, better place. … My friends, the day has come.