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A Tale of Two Epidemics Coronavirus Exacerbates Substance Abuse Issues BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
While COVID-19 has become the dominant catastrophe of the moment, other longstanding crises have taken a backseat in the public eye. The opioid crisis, an epidemic that has taken many more lives over a much longer stretch of time, is seeing a new rash of overdoses since the start of the pandemic. Data provided by Suffolk County Police shows overdoses have generally increased from the same months last year to this year. In March, police counted a total of 14 fatal overdoses compared to 27 in 2019. There were 108 nonfatal overdoses compared to 93 last year. In April, the numbers jumped wildly from 15 fatal overdoses in 2019 to 30 in 2020. Nonfatal leaped from 67 to 113. District Attorney Tim Sini’s (D) projections of overdose numbers tell an even more morose tale. With data that includes ODs that weren’t confirmed yet by toxicology reports, seeing a total increase of 19 percent of both fatal and nonfatal overdoses compared to the previous year. Though those numbers include all overdoses, not just related to opioids. While it may be too soon to determine a specific link between the pandemic and the increase of overdoses, drug counselors and rehabs say they have seen the marked connection between isolation, mental illness and drug dependence. As time goes on and the country faces economic turmoil, some worry the situation may not improve for the rest of the year.
Addiction Relief Shifts to Remote Help
Dr. Carol Carter, the director of the Sunshine Prevention Center in Port Jefferson Station, works especially with youth and parents dealing with mental health and drug-related issues. She said her center quickly had to scramble after the state first started closing down. Since then the center has been hosting most programs over Zoom or in Facebook Live sessions. They have especially tried to focus on appreciating diversity, the issues of isolation and other anxieties. They have done children’s book reading and
puppet shows over the internet as well, looking for ways to maintain positivity. They have also connected with families by dropping off care packages and calling families each week. But while such meetings may be a substitute for counseling sessions, Carter said the main difficulty is preventing people from getting on drugs, especially as so many remain cooped up indoors, many in unstable situations. “We’ve seen an increase of response hotline, in depression and suicidal ideations,” Carter said. “We’re still collecting data, but we’ve heard of an increase in domestic abuse, an increase in substance use, alcohol abuse, as their way of coping with isolation.” Director of Drug and Alcohol Counseling Services at the Smithtown Horizons Counseling and Education Center, Matthew Neebe, said it’s hard to gauge if there has been an increase in drug use since the pandemic as the center is not facilitating toxicology screenings. Yet, he added there is “anecdotal” evidence for the pandemic causing and increase in relapses and drug use. “Two of the biggest risk factors for substance use are social isolation and stress,” he said. “Both are consequences of the stay-at-home orders.” While the center itself is considered essential, they have continued to operate at a reduced level. However, with most staff working from home, all therapy sessions are done via telehealth. They have been conducting some group sessions virtually, though they have reduced the number of sessions from their regular schedule. Anthony Rizzuto is the director of provider relations for Seafield, a drug rehab with inpatient facilities in Westhampton and outpatient facilities in Amityville, Medford, Mineola, Patchogue and Riverhead. He said they too have been hearing of the increase in overdoses and the increased use of alcohol and other drugs as more are quarantined at home. “We know people will turn to drugs or alcohol, and God knows right now we have plenty of stressors — we have people who have lost loved ones, people who have lost their jobs, people who are in financial ruin, some are losing their businesses,” Rizzuto said. “We see an increase right now, and quite honestly I expect a huge increase as this continues going on and after this is over, if this ever happens.” While there are obvious downsides to telehealth, the push is one that was in the docket for a while, and with the current pandemic, has finally pushed many institutions into taking it seriously, said Dr. Christian Racine, the senior director for clinics for the Family Service League Long Island. The nonprofit social services agency also runs the Diagnostic, Assessment and Stabilization Hub in partnership with Suffolk County. The benefits, Racine said, include allowing
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DASH Center Hotline: 631-952-3333 Family Service League: 631-656-1020 Narcotics Anonymous Hotline: 631-689-6262 St. Charles Hospital Chemical Dependency Program: 631-474-6233 Seafield: 800-448-4808 Alcoholics Anonymous helpline: 631-669-1124 Hope House Ministries: 631-928-2377 Long Island Center for Recovery: 631-728-3100 Phoenix House: 888-671-9392 Addiction Campuses: 631-461-1807 LI Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence: 631-979-1700 Eastern Long Island Hospital: 631-477-1000 Villa Veritas Foundation: 845-626-3555 St Christopher’s Inn: 845-335-1000 Talbot House: 631-589-4144 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 800-273-8255 Local Link Wellness: 631-909-4300 people who may have had mobility issues or other mitigating problems the chance to get into the system. People who call the hotline for the clinic or DASH center are now immediately put into the system, where they can connect with people to understand what the person is going through and what services they should get connected to. It also allows for flexibility in time and location, no longer requiring a person to drive what can be a long distance to start the treatment process. FSL’s Mobile Crisis Teams continue to operate, often going to a person’s home to talk through the door or even speak to a person through video chat or phone right on the person’s driveway. “We didn’t see a drop in services, [but] an increase in services because of flexibility of being able to use telehealth,” Racine said. “People are being frank about increased cravings or relapses.” Though there still are several downsides to telehealth. Perhaps the most egregious is for those living in unstable home conditions, where the person on one of the calls may not want others to listen in. “Even if you get along with the rest of the family, you’re worried about what you’re sharing or you’re hesitant to share certain details,” he said. “Some don’t have the best relationship with their families. It’s absolutely a concern, and we’re very conscious of that.” While Rizutto acknowledged some of the benefits of telehealth, he said he preferred the in-person meetings where he said “a lot is being said nonverbal.” Otherwise, with so many resources shut down, from in-person AA meetings to churches to gyms,
“Zoom really played a part to give people something,” Rizutto said. “People are in those meetings who had never been to therapy, before people from all over. It is definitely meeting a need.”
Government and Police Response
Suffolk County Police Chief Stuart Cameron said cops have noticed increased incidents of drug overdoses, though despite the emphasis on social distancing police are still able to administer Narcan, a life-saving drug that halts an opioid overdose. But with treatment and prevention as the more important component of substance abuse, the pandemic presents its own unique challenges. “It’s not just opioids — people are self medicating, people are isolated,” said Suffolk County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai). Anker is the legislative chair of the Suffolk County Heroin and Opiate Epidemic Advisory Panel. The trend is troubling, especially compared to Suffolk County’s previous models showing total overdoses are on the decline. In January, Suffolk released a report showing 2019’s projections of opioid-related deaths was 283, compared to 2018’s 380. Those decreased numbers of deaths were attributed, in part, to the greater use and availability of Narcan. Anker said the numbers have caused real concerns among other members of the opioid advisory panel. In a meeting Friday, May 8, panel members discussed tapping into county forfeiture funding to create public service announcements on mental health and the different places to receive drug treatment. The COVID-19 AND ADDICTION Continued on A6
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Library to Host International Museaum Day MCPL Virtual Services Surge Via Zoom Middle Country Public Library in Selden, left, and Centereach, right. Photos from SCPLS
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The Middle Country Public Library continues to remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but its remote operations and digital platforms have been embraced and heavily trafficked by patrons who are utilizing the valuable access to information, programs and services. The use of electronic resources has grown exponentially. During this time, the library has offered more than 60 programs virtually, many of which were recorded and are available to view on the YouTube channel mcpl.tv. Included are programs for all ages such as instruction for using Google Classroom, yoga, cooking programs, art activities and story times. Visit http:// www.mcplibrary.org/online-programs/ for a
complete listing of online programs. Features include Citizenship Preparation, story times, cooking instruction, book discussions and arts and crafts activities. In addition, Middle Country residents can register for a temporary library card online and contact the library’s customer service department to update the card to one with full privileges. A MCPL library card allows patrons to access the library’s extensive online offerings, including access to Live-brary, Hoopla, Kanopy and RB Digital, through which patrons can access thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, music and movies, as well as learning resources including online homework help and language learning.
The Museum Corner at the Middle Country Public Library in Centereach has been holding their annual International Museum Day event each May for over 30 years. The event features representatives from local museums, historical societies, science and nature centers sharing hands-on activities and information regarding their exhibits and programs with several hundred attendees in a festive setting. After the initial disappointment at not being able to hold the in-person event this year, the library’s planning team quickly turned their focus to holding a virtual International Museum Day event instead. The library announced this year a virtual International Museum Day celebration will take place throughout the day Monday, May 18, and will feature two live programs via Zoom: a tour of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center and a presentation from the Long Island
Museum of their “William Sydney Mount at Home” activities including how to make a fiddle from a box. The day’s festivities will begin with a special museum themed story time and crafts, and will continue throughout the day and evening with links to program videos from Sweetbriar Nature Center, South Fork Natural History Museum, Three Village Historical Society, the Vanderbilt Planetarium and Sagamore Hill National Historical Site, all shared via the library’s social media platforms on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. In addition, a resource guide will be posted on the Museum Corner webpage of all the virtual exhibits, activities and videos available at museums, nature and science centers throughout Long Island. mcplibrary.org/children/museum-corner/ For a complete schedule and more information regarding the day’s events visit mcplibrary. org/online-programs
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LEGALS Notice of formation of Aces High Tutoring, LLC. Arts of Org. filed with Secretary of State of New York (SSNY) on January/27/2020. Office location: Suffolk County. SSNY has been designated as agent of the LLC upon whom process against it may be served. SSNY shall mail a copy of the process to the LLC: 126 Acacia Road, Rocky Point, New York 11778. Purpose: Any lawful purpose 541 4/30 6x tmc NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS TOWN OF BROOKHAVEN Please take notice that the Town of Brookhaven Board of Zoning Appeals will hold a virtual public hearing streamed live at Brookhavenny.gov/meeting on Wednesday, May 20, 2020 at 2 p.m. Interested parties may participate in the public hearing via chat at Brookhavenny. gov/join. Written comments may be submitted prior to the public hearing by going to the Board of Zoning Appeals online contact form at above referenced website pursuant to the provisions of Article IV, Sec. 8555 (B) of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Brookhaven. TIMES OF MIDDLE COUNTRY 10. C & S Homes, Inc., 1820 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: West side Blydenburgh Rd. 2607’+/-South of Horseblock Rd., Centereach. Applicant requests division of a parcel into 3 plots, 1, 2, & 3, requiring lot frontage, minimum & total side yard variances
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Email: legals@tbrnewsmedia.com for existing one family dwelling on plot 1. (0200 53500 0500 012000) 10A. C & S Homes, Inc., 1820 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: West side Blydenburgh Rd. 2607’+/-South of Horseblock Rd., Centereach. Applicant requests side yard variance for existing deck on plot 1. 11. C & S Homes, Inc., 1820 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: East side Blydenburgh Rd. 2691’+/- South of Horseblock Rd., Centereach. Applicant requests lot frontage variance for proposed one family dwellng on plot 2. 12. C & S Homes, Inc., 1820 Middle Country Rd., Centereach, NY. Location: East side Blydenburgh Rd. 2699’+/- South of Horseblock Rd., Centereach. Applicant requests lot frontage variance for proposed one family dwellng on plot 3. THE FOLLOWING CASES WILL COMMENCE AT 4 P.M. 25. Jagger Rebozo, c/o Andrew Malguarnera, 713 Main Street, Port Jefferson, NY. Location: South side Highview Avenue, 250’ East of Crestwood Avenue, Selden. Applicant requests minimum and total side yard variances for existing one story residence addition and existing one story utility room addition on a 50 ft. wide lot. (0200 57000 0400 022000) 26. Kenneth & Diane Ripple, 71 E. Riviera Drive, Selden, NY. Location: East side Riviera Drive, 335.02’ South of Dart Road, Selden. Applicant requests permission for existing inground swimming pool to be located
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BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM In an effort to cope with ongoing and future economic impacts due to coronavirus, Brookhaven Town has reduced its spending in the 2020 budget by $3.2 million. The town board voted 7-0 to approve the reductions at its May 5 meeting held over Zoom. A majority of cuts are tied to a number of expenditures ranging from canceled town programs, senior citizen services, office equipment, vehicle and fuel expenses, and postponed highway projects, among other things. Totaling approximately $1,891,864. Many of the expenses became superfluous as most town employees have been forced to work from home during the pandemic. In addition, the town saved over $1 million by cutting a number of part-time positions and deciding not to refill vacant jobs. $575,191 was
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panel also would look to advocate that the federal government should allow people to use Medicaid funds for teleconferencing, which it currently does not cover. Sini said Suffolk County has not seen a decrease in drug-related activity despite the pandemic. This is mostly due to the nature of how drugs enter into Suffolk — smuggled into New York City then is sold wholesale to dealers on the ground, who usually drop it off to peoples’ houses or are picked up at select homes. “We’re not seeing any drop except for powdered cocaine, but we’re not seeing that same situation with heroin or fentanyl,” the DA said. Sini said while other crimes like break-ins have declined, the office has allocated more resources to the narcotics bureau, now standing at 13 narcotics prosecutors, which works closely with police to track dealers and prosecute them. The DA’s office is also planning to roll out a new program that would work with a yet-to-be-named nonprofit and shuttle people in addiction to treatment providers. Sini said there will be more information on that program in the coming weeks. The initial rise in COVID-19 cases forced the rehab facilities to cut back in bed capacity, especially as hospital-based detoxes turned into beds for COVID patients. Since then, as the number of hospitalizations declined, Rizzuto said now bed supply is better, but of more concern is funding for these facilities.
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saved by eliminating about 70 part-time jobs. $742, 533 was saved by deciding not to fill the vacant positions. Jobs include positions in departments such as public safety, highway, the comptroller’s office, traffic safety, aviation, and recycling, among others. In late 2019, the town passed a $312.9 million budget and also established its capital budget plan for the next four years. “Either a state-funded facility, nonprofits or private entities, I think the budget is going to be ravaged and with the lack of being able to collect, they will be looking to cut,” Rizzuto said. “I think they are going to have to cut in many different areas to meet the needs financially. Historically behavioral health is one of the things that gets slashed.” Anker said members of the advisory panel have expressed their concerns for many different programs’ funding, especially as New York State reports huge drops in income. Many nonprofit rehabs and centers rely on such funding. “Drug addiction is not decreasing, it’s increasing and they may be taking away those resources,” Anker said. “We may not hear it now, but we will see repercussions come out as we deal with pandemic.” Maintaining the breadth of services, from inpatient care to outpatient care to paying for nursing and other medical staff, the rehabs and prevention centers requires a heavy dose of government funding. Racine said restructuring Medicaid could provide a necessary boost of aid. “The idea of state funding being reduced is really a concern — a lot of services are expensive,” Racine said. Despite the efforts of both government, for profit and nonprofit organizations, officials said they don’t expect numbers to return to the way they seemed to be heading only a year ago. “I think it would be very hard to end 2020 on a decline,” Sini said. “We will see an increase in 2020, but we will all be working to bring those numbers down in 2021.”
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Camp Owners Prepare for Possible Openings
BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM
Many parents, children and camp owners have the same question on their minds — will camps open in 2020? While Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) made the call to close schools throughout the state for the rest of the academic year a couple of weeks ago, camp owners are still waiting for the green light to open. While they wait, many remain hopeful, preparing for what will be a new normal this year as more protocols are put in place regarding the number of participants in activities, cleaning processes and much more. Tom Palamara, president of HPP Rinx Inc., and Matt Pagliari, camp director at Hauppauge-based Hidden Pond Day Camp at The Rinx, said the American Camp Association and the YMCAs of the United States jointly have provided educational resources that can be used by all day and overnight camps, as well as by health departments and parents. The guide, which they are following, provides advice on topics such as communication of practices, health screening and prevention, cleaning and disinfection and more. While The Rinx offers hockey, ice skating, preschool all year round, it closed down March
16. They are optimistic about this summer and are already working on plans with the hopes of opening at the end of June. “We’ve been very fortunate that we’re still getting enrollments, and less than a handful of requests for money back,” Pagliari said. “I think the parents are really looking forward to their kids going to camp and we know the kids are looking forward to it.” Todd Shaw, owner of Kids Country Day Camp, said the Mount Sinai facility is also preparing to offer camp at the end of June. He said many thought the governor would have announced camp information by now. “So, that kind of threw us all a curveball,” Shaw said. Yet, with knowing they will need to adjust practices for 2020, the staff has been getting ready for this summer. “We’re planning each day as if we’ll have camp,” he said. For the Mount Sinai camp, Shaw added parents’ reactions have been mixed. While some have already signed up, taking advantage of its early bird rate, others said they’ll take a break from camp this year. Palamara and Pagliari said some of the key points they are addressing are arrivals, dismissals, lunchtime, use of the pool at the Hauppauge location, what to do on rainy days,
Day camps will need to reimagine how they operate if they get the green light from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to open this summer. In addition to taking temperatures and implementing different cleaning practices, children’s activities may center around things such as arts and crafts where social distancing can be applied. Stock photo
sanitization and size of the groups. As far as the number of attendees, and campers in each group, they said that will come either from state or Suffolk County recommendations. With a large piece of property, they said groups, whether with 10 or 25 campers, will not be a problem for them. They also added that the lunch area is large enough to follow social distancing protocols of 6 feet or more, and there are enough covered areas for rainy days. “We work with 97 acres,” Pagliari said. “We have tons of room. We can have a spread
out of arrivals, spread out our dismissal.” At both camps, staff members and campers will have their temperature taken with touchless thermometers and be sent home if it’s elevated. Shaw said employees will also have their blood oxygen levels measured regularly to ensure no respiratory symptoms are present. Both camps will clean and disinfect more often, including the use of disinfectant fog machines, which Shaw said get into every SUMMER CAMPS Continued on A9
the patients who are not COVID,” she said. “There’s this whole population who are not being taken care of.” The nature of the current pandemic makes it especially hard for practices like Hoang’s. Normally a procedure on different parts of the body could take upwards of an hour, but close proximity is not in the cards with the current crisis. Still, doing what she can, she is offering procedures on Mather operating room nurse Olga Turner receives acupuncture by Jennifer Hoang. people’s ears while they Photo by Kyle Barr remain in the car, and she much to her. remains outside. “We are so used to caring for everybody Olga Turner, an operating room nurse at else, and that’s one of my biggest issues because Mather Hospital, has been a patient of Hoang I have asthma so I couldn’t go into the city,” for a little over a year. She suffers from vertigo, Turner said. “It just gets me that I can’t help anxiety, depression and upset stomach, but the more than I want to.” acupuncture treatments, she said, has helped Hoang knows of crises, and the impact such her immensely. She said being able to return to small services can have on the people experiencget any sort of treatment for her ailments, while ing it. She knows it from her childhood and from she returns to work in the hospital, means so her father, Ngoc Hoang. When she was around 7
years old, her father and their whole family were caught up in the wave of Vietnamese trying to flee at the tail end of the Vietnam War in the late 1970s. Her father, who had a little acupuncture practice, set up shop and provided aid to the refugees leaving their home. She and her brothers and sisters watched their father help others when so few people could. “There were people who were really sick, and there was no medicine — there were doctors there but without medicine, there was little they could do,” Hoang said. “[My father] was able to help so many people … I would see grown men crying in pain or suffering from something else, and after an hour they walked out, better. That was something so powerful to me. I knew from then I was going to be an acupuncturist.” The small Port Jeff team seems to have the process down. After filling out paperwork, Hoang performs the procedure, putting the needles in five points in the ear. The person then relaxes for a time after, normally around 15 minutes. On their cars is placed a small sign calling the car a “waiting room.” Each person is given a mothball scented with lavender, plus a small bag containing tea supplies.
PJ Acupuncturist Provides Free Services During Pandemic BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBREWSMEDIA.COM In the lot of a small medical park in Port Jefferson, people relax in the drivers’ seats of their cars, the subtle smell of lavender wafting from barely cracked windows. In amidst the panic, both of the overriding senselessness of the world being turned upside down, and the smaller, creeping tide of waiting for things to get better, it was as close to an oasis as the current times could see. Done up in mask, gloves and lab coat, acupuncturist Jennifer Hoang, the owner of Acupuncture Tradition in Port Jeff, has been providing small free-of-charge acupuncture sessions to people in the community. It does not matter if they were previous clients of her’s. All are welcome as long as she has supplies. To her, it’s her way of giving back. As so many people are stuck at home, and many with chronic conditions unwilling to visit the hospitals and possibly contract the virus, the acupuncturist is offering whatever she can to aid people, especially those in pain who may not have access to prescribed painkillers during the crisis. “So many doctors are overloaded in their work and have not been able to take care of
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their funds.” The director of the business center said that the federal government didn’t have much time to react and the SBA was not staffed to handle the influx of applications from the onset. A recent report from SBA Inspector General Hannibal Wared detailed that many small businesses could struggle to meet the 75 percent payroll requirement. Ware called on the association to evaluate the potential negative impact to borrowers regarding the percentage of loan proceeds eligible for forgiveness and update requirements. With uncertainty over the current criteria of PPP, local municipalities have stepped in to offer alternatives to businesses. Brookhaven Town is offering $10,000 grants to small businesses as part of its Emergency Microenterprise Business Relief Program. It is aimed at microenterprise businesses within the town of five employees or less. The town received a special allocation of funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the CARES Act. The new norm for businesses could include being six feet apart and the use of protective dividers. Sean Hanley of LB Fabrication & Automation LLC., has begun making plexiglass social distancing dividers in an attempt to help his own business survive and also to allow any business to open up to full capacity. He has already installed dividers at Salon Blonde in Port Jeff, which is run by his wife. Many who first applied for the PPP loans after the initial April launch did not receive funds before the first set of $349 billion ran out by April 16. Hanley’s Smithtown-based business was shut down following Governor Cuomo’s executive order. A good portion of its business comes from work on construction and other
job sites where its metal fabricator and masonry services are sought after. Him and his wife both missed out on the first round of the PPP loan applications but were able to get through in the second batch of applications. “We’re still waiting to hear back, but we would look at paying the rent first,” he said. Hanley is hoping the state will begin to relax restrictions so his wife and himself can reopen their businesses and bring back their respective employees. While owners are anxious to reopen, there has yet to be any indication in what capacity businesses will be able operate. Social distancing guidelines will also play a factor. Luciano said it would not help his restaurant at all if he is potentially forced to reopen with significantly fewer customers. “We’re used to filling the place up, it would be hard for us with less capacity,” he said. In addition, Luciano expressed concerns on
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Mount Sinai resident James Labriola has started to volunteer and help Hoang during these sessions. First reading about it, he simply called up Hoang and said, “You helped me, how can I help you?” Labriola said his dad had been to several sessions with Hoang before the start of the pandemic. His father, suffering from Parkinson’s disease, would limp into the acupuncture’s office, but the man would leave with a steady gait after treatment. After a few days, the pain would come back, but Labriola said seeing him move freely, even for such a short time, was worth it. “It would usually last only two days, but it
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nook and cranny. “We’re constantly evolving, and things we knew when we were planning a month ago we now know, okay, we can do more,” Shaw said. “We can add the safety protocol, we can add this level of sanitizing.” Since Kids Country Day Camp is part of Kids of Mt. Sinai, a New York state licensed childcare facility and is deemed an essential business, the camp will be able to open for children up to 10 years old no matter what. In the past, the camp has needed a waiver to have 11 or 12 years old attend camp, which means those over 10
how social distancing could affect the day to day operation of the restaurant and impact the customer experience. “I think right now it is better to do the takeout services, we have been taking full advantage of the village’s delivery program,” he said. He said this is time when many businesses reap the benefits of increased foot traffic in the village and use funds to pay bills from the offseason in the winter. “We start to break even during May and in the summer is where we make a lot of our money, Luciano said. Close to two months into the pandemic, Ryba said they are still “early in the game}” and even as the crisis ultimately ends it could have wide-ranging effects. “There are a lot of difficult things that need to be sorted out, you could have millions of individuals who will be without a job,” the director of the business center said. gave him two days of freedom, and that was amazing,” he said. The acupuncturist has seen an average of 10 cars each day they’ve done the free procedures. Saturday, May 9, she treated a total of 17. Each is done for free, though she has accepted donations to help her afford the materials, especially needles. As long as she has the time and resources, she said she will continue to offer the service as long as the crisis mandates it. “People are losing their income or falling back into their addictions,” Hoang said. “It’s wonderful to stay connected to the community, to my current patients, and offer some kind of relief. Acupuncture Tradition, located at 640 Belle Terre Rd. Building D, is hosting another sessions Saturday, May 16 from 1 to 4 p.m
may not be able to take part if day camps aren’t allowed to open in 2020. Shaw said employees are also looking at restructuring camp activities as some sports may not be able to be played, and more arts and crafts where campers can practice social distancing may take place or there may be more performances such as magic shows. “We’ll be ready,” Shaw said. “We just don’t know — ready for what — yet.” To be ready at the end of June, Hidden Pond Day Camp will be providing an online orientation for counselors. The guidelines will be a big help for counselors in handling different routines, Pagliari said. “The kids’ safety is paramount to us, that’s going to come first,” the director said.
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Small businesses are the Atlas of the economy. Too often attention is paid to the huge corporations, whose employment numbers are cited for why they need stimulus in times of crisis. However, when money circulates at the ground level, it tracks among the small businesses, our friends, our neighbors. That’s why it’s so disheartening to see a program meant to support those same small businesses first be shuttled through banks who simply weren’t prepared for it, then being abused by large companies it wasn’t made for, and now is seeing constant changes which may make using the loan a kind of poisoned chalice, one that looks appetizing but may just be a death blow to any who drinks from it. The fact the Payment Protection Program was shunted through banks in the first place was a misstep. Many small business owners complained clients of the banks were given preference (and even among those, larger companies were prioritized). Smaller-sized banks themselves found they had to establish a whole new infrastructure for handling and dealing out these loans. And then, companies with many more employees nationwide than the requisite 500 or under had received such loans because of loopholes in the lending requirements. Approximately 94 loans were made to publicly traded companies, totaling around $365 million. Reuters reported that well over 70 of these companies which received aid had months of emergency cash on hand to get them over the hump. The loans of up to $10 million were designed to tide over small businesses for eight weeks, rehiring staff in the process. A program that started with $349 billion has grown to $669 billion after thousands were left high and dry after the first round of loans. This program that was meant to support small businesses has contorted into a mess of paperwork that has many concerned it will saddle them with debt long term. Some owners find they have no reason to take on their furloughed labor if none of them wish to return to work anyway. With many fearing the economic impact could last much longer than eight weeks, even more are concerned they may have to lay off employees once again just a short time after spending the funds. Some businesses have reported anxiety at using the funds at all, fearing that they will somehow make themselves ineligible for the loan turning into a grant. Many businesses rely on independent contractors, but according to loan rules, none of the money received can be used for contract labor. Politico wrote May 8 that the watchdog agency of the Small Business Administration (the SBA administers the PPP loans) reported the federal agency has strayed away from the original language of the law in creating new restrictions. PPP requires businesses to spend 75 percent of the loan on payroll to get forgiveness and that the balance must be paid back in two years. Both of these bylaws were absent from the original bill. But questions still weigh heavily on the minds of business owners. Everything most people understand about the loans can still change. All this goes to show PPP was unleashed too hastily and clarifications have been much too slow to roll out. Small business owners need specifics and they need guarantees. Guidelines need to be strict enough to avoid scams while keeping in mind the reality of modern day small businesses. U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D) has already called for easing restrictions. Our other local federal representatives must hear owners’ concerns, and then relay those fears to the U.S. Treasury Department and SBA. These small businesses need that help, because if we lose them, some of the best parts of our communities go with them.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) continues to blame Washington for all of our problems just like his political ancestors from past decades. His most recent complaint is distribution of trillions in federal COVID-19 funding between the states. He has an insatiable appetite for more and more federal assistance with no concern about increasing the confiscatory level of taxation to generate the revenues along with increasing long term borrowing to pay for this or how the billions of dollars are spent. He believes throwing more taxpayer dollars at problems will solve all of society’s ills. The late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan documented how New Yorkers sent more money to Washington than we get back. Many of the 50 states could make the same argument.
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Hall, Albany and Washington. Within any of our 62 counties, you could take this analysis down to every town, village and local census tract. Cuomo should practice what he preaches when distributing billions in state dollars. Larry Penner Great Neck
It’s unsettling to see the backlash in this country as protestors take to the streets claiming a right to not wear masks or maintain social distance. In a 100-year storm of ignorance, they miss the fact that cloth and paper masks do not offer much protection to the wearer. They protect other people from the wearer. In this crisis, it is our obligation to others to wear a mask and maintain distance. As a baby boomer, I have taken great comfort in the ascendancy of science: space shots, a moon landing and joint replacements for the asking. My father was the first person in New York City to survive diptheria because my grandfather, a new physician with time on his hands, treated him with an experimental drug —
an antitoxin. As a child, my older siblings had sheltered in place at our summer home in Quogue to keep us safe from the polio epidemic. I knew several students in the high school class just ahead of us who were crippled by the disease from which we and everyone who came after us were spared. The advent of the Salk vaccine plus penicillin and pasteurization assured us that we had conquered infection and had only heart disease and cancer left to fight. I have lived my life in a new age of light and science and now bear witness to a world where some people seem determined to reverse all advances and march willingly into darkness led by the badly misinformed.
President Donald Trump (R) has legitimized selfishness and meanness of spirit, but he hasn’t yet taken away courage and self-sacrifice. Upstate and out-of-state health care workers flocked to NYC to help, at great personal risk to themselves, just as NYC firefighters refused orders to stand down on 9/11 and ran into buildings to get people out. The good news is that cops, first responders, health care workers and emergency personnel keep showing up for work. Essential workers still drive the trucks, deliver the mail, dole out necessities for the rest of us. Thank you all, and special thanks to those of you who run toward the fire. Timothy Glynn East Setauket
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Badly Misinformed Leading Country into Darkness
Idiocy of Some Youth During Coronavirus We have young people in Commack protesting the COVID closures, saying they would prefer to have more people die from COVID-19 if it would put money back in their pockets. We have young people on the beaches in Florida saying things such as, “let those old people die so they can’t vote.” With all of the heroes, risking everything
to save so many of us, who do these idiots think they are? No, I am not out of work and, if I were, I would be in a desperate situation. I have, however, been in a situation where medical bills brought me to the edge of losing everything. I fought through it. I didn’t blame those who didn’t have my problems. I took every menial, down in the dirt job that I could find.
Eventually things got better, financially. My sick wife, who I loved, died. Be careful. What may look better isn’t always better. To the young friends of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, all of Bernie’s free give-a-ways were to be paid for by those old folks the Floridian’s wish would die. Francis G. Gibbons Sr. Terryville
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Opinion
Unlikely Lawn Signs During Lockdown
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love my neighbors. I never knew who most of them were, but I do now. I see them almost every day and they are friendlier than most of the people I’ve ever worked with. Then again, they haven’t been sitting at their desks, waiting for me to file a story, to fix some error, or to explain how I could have ended the previous sentence with a preposition. I don’t just love my neighbors. I D. None love the trees that of the above reflect the different BY DANIEL DUNAIEF types of spring lighting that falls on them throughout the day, as I take my exhausted dog for yet another long walk. The singing of the birds? I can’t get enough of it.
In fact, the other day, I heard three birds, all singing their repetitive songs. Meanwhile, a woodpecker was banging his head against a tree, searching for his insect prey while providing a percussion background to the sounds of the other birds chirping. Incidentally, why haven’t clever scientists studied woodpeckers to see how they recover from nonstop concussions? How can they fly straight after all that pounding? So, my neighbors can’t always update me on their lives, because A. they don’t always have time to chat with the guy who walks his big, white dog too many times a day, and B. they want to make sure they stay at least six feet away from me, which isn’t so easy when said big white dog pulls me and him towards them. They do a fantastic job of updating me on their lives with the signs that grace their lawns. I’ve read about birthdays, new babies, graduations, among many other milestones and celebrations limited by our red light,
green light, one-two-three game with a virus that doesn’t seem to have turned away long enough for us to do much moving. Anyway, I was just thinking about the signs my neighbors don’t put on our lawns, but that might reflect their current reality. Here’s a list of a few: — No one told us we’d be entertaining three kids under 5 years old indefinitely. — Yes, I’m working on the lawn again. — Don’t make fun of my makeup. Yours doesn’t exactly look great, either. — Do you want to buy any knives from our cute and enterprising daughter who just finished college finals and needs something to do (okay, we might put that one on our lawn). — I see you staring at my house, while you’re pretending to look at the trees. — I’m celebrating nothing today. How about you? — If you miss sports too, try to hit this sign with a ball and win a lollipop.
— Lord of the Flies might have been fiction. This is real. Don’t, under any circumstances, knock on our door. — This invisible fence isn’t for a dog. Keep off the lawn. — Does anyone know what day it is? — Hopefully, this sign will distract you from the peeling paint on our shutters. — We’ve been binge watching Stranger Things and can’t come to the door right now because we’re in the Upside Down. Please leave a message. — No, wrong house. The neighbor down the street and to the left is the happy one. — We know it sounds weird, but it’s our version of modern music. Finally, I’d like to share an actual, handwritten sign that from a neighbor who had clearly had enough of the rest of us, with our stupid dogs on stupid leashes every day. — No poop zone (I can’t believe I have to say this).
Zoom is a Miracle and a Cross to Bear
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ooming has become a verb in the same way xeroxing did many years ago. When a product assumes an important role in daily life, the manufacturer’s name sometimes becomes the name for the process. So it was for many years with photocopying. And now, I don’t know about you, but for those of us who are working remotely even part of the week, participating in calls over the Zoom platform is a Between regular occurrence. you and me Who ever BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF heard of Zoom before sheltering in place began? Well, maybe I did, but only as a possible growth stock to invest in, and running
at $100 a share, it struck me as too expensive to be interesting. When I googled (another such example) the name, it was described as “an American communications technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. It provides videotelephony and online chat services … and is used for teleconferencing, telecommuting, distance education and social relations.” Until I actually went through “joining a meeting,” it had no relevance to my life. Enter the pandemic and sheltering in place, and we all discovered that unlike some other high tech stuff, Zoom was easy to use and helpful for work and play. We now have departmental meetings and community board meetings via Zoom, and I enjoy weekly rendezvouses with my children and grandchildren. For now, seeing everybody is free. Like all technical marvels, however, there are positives and negatives in connection with Zoom. After three Zoom meetings, each for two hours, in one day, I found that I was exhausted and feeling out of sorts. The first such day, I just assumed it had little to do with zooming. The next time, with a similar schedule and the same
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result, made me realize there was a cause-andeffect taking place, but I didn’t understand why. Then I read, “Why Zoom Is Terrible,” a column in The New York Times by journalist Kate Murphy, that made a lot of sense. Before I share the particulars, I want to rush to say that I don’t think Zoom is terrible. I think it is what it is, like all new inventions that change one’s life: a miracle. However difficult our lives are today, imagine if there were no video conferencing available to us. Even physicians have embraced telemedicine as a substitute for office visits for now, but surely as a way of communicating with remote patients who cannot get to the office in a life-or-death emergency in the future. There are, however, some drawbacks, as Murphy’s article explains, and we should be aware of them. The way the video images are “digitally encoded and decoded, altered and adjusted, patched and synthesized introduces all kinds of artifacts: blocking, freezing, jerkiness and out-of-sync audio. These disruptions, some below our conscious awareness, confound perception and scramble certain social cues. Our brains strain to fill in
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the gaps and make sense of the disorder, which makes us feel vaguely disturbed, uneasy and tired without quite knowing why.” This explains a lot to me. Just the audio delay alone tends to make me speak more loudly to the screen than I would normally in an unconscious attempt to get my words to the listeners faster and get their responses back more quickly. After six hours of yelling alone, I can feel pretty tired. And when I look at the others on the grid, in a manner reminiscent of the television show, Hollywood Squares, I am not looking them in the eye. There is no eye contact, and often people are actually looking at themselves — checking out their hair and whether their collar is covering their chicken neck. We are, as the author points out, “exquisitely sensitive to one another’s facial expressions … and [that is] essential to our understanding of one another.” But such subtleties are frozen, smoothed over or delayed on the screen, however hard we might strain to see them, hence our fatigue and even a bit of alienation. So now you know. And by the way, Zoom is now selling at $164.55 a share. I never bought it.
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