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June 11, 2020

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From left, Port Jeff chamber president Mary Joy Pipe, Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone, Salon Blonde owner Melissa Hanley, Mayor Margot Garant celebrate the start of Phase Two reopening June 10. Photo by Kyle Barr

Port Jeff Businesses Reenergized in Phase Two With Phase Two reopening coming to fruition Wednesday, June 10, Port Jefferson village has looked for several ways for business owners to get their wares and services outside.

Village officials have already talked about setting up areas in parking lots to allow for more outdoor dining space. At its June 1 meeting, the village voted to waive all dining table application fees for the upcoming season. Mayor Margot Garant said the village has been working with a host of restaurants to figure out how they may go about offering outdoor services.

The mayor said the village is allowing space for restaurants who normally have no space for outdoor dining in right-of-ways, walkways and parking lots.

By midday Wednesday, the town was jiving. With a steady stream of cars rolling down Main Street, and with customers sitting under canopy eating outdoors, many owners said Phase Two was turning out to be a much better scenario than Phase One. During a tour of Suffolk downtowns, including Port Jeff, County Executive Steve Bellone (D) said the difference in allowing construction in the first reopening phase and allowing salons or outdoor dining has been significant.

“After going through an unprecedented event, these are the activities that give people a sense of normalcy,” Bellone said.

Restaurants are setting up in formerly public places, such as Ruvo East and Old Fields which are laying tents in the space behind their restaurants. C’est Cheese and The Pie are also doing outside dining behind the main building on Main Street. Prohibition Kitchen will be using the parking lot behind its building as well.

Manager of The Pie, Jessica Janowicz, said though they will be setting up a tent behind the business Friday, each week has seen a slow progression in sales. Wednesday showed a big difference, with a steady stream of customers

doing takeout since the place opened.

Other restaurants will be using pedestrian walkways for its outdoor space, including Salsa Salsa, which will have some space in the alleyway next to the shop. Pasta Pasta and Toast Coffeehouse are laying out tables at the top of the stairway along East Main Street.

Debra Bowling, the owner of Pasta Pasta, thanked the Port Jeff chamber and the village for working so quickly with permits and signage. Her restaurant now has several tables and a flower box in front of her shop, and in over 30 years of working there, it’s the first time she has seen it do outdoor dining.

Some restaurants that have access to the outside, including Nantuckets, Gourmet Burger Bistro, The Steam Room and SaGhar, will use their current outdoor space as long as it can be open up to the sky. Danfords has its outdoor space on its dock and now has an agreement with the Town of Brookhaven for some use of the Mary Bayles Waterfront Park.

A member of the village fire marshals did not respond to requests for comment about guidelines for safety in walkable areas.

The Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce released a letter dated June 5 to the Village of Port Jefferson mayor and trustees asking that retailers be allowed some latitude for “outdoor merchandising.”

“The consumer would have the ability to ‘shop’ in a less confined area and the retailer would be creating more opportunities for sales,” the letter states.

Director of operations for the chamber Barbara Ransome said she has had positive feedback from village trustees on the proposal.

Garant said they are working up guidelines that should be released sometime on Wednesday, but those were not available by press time.

Retailers will have the option to have a table in front of their shops, but they will need to keep 3 feet of sidewalk clear and ensure that they do not VILLAGE PHASE TWO CONTINUED ON A5

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Town

Comsewogue Grows Sunflowers for Graduating Seniors Comsewogue school district is trying to leave its seniors with a little bit more than a diploma for all those who saw their last high school year cut short.

The district has planted hundreds of sunflowers in the high school courtyard, known as Jackie’s Garden after the late wife of former Superintendent Dr. Joe Rella, who in February also passed away.

The seeds number over 320, and should bloom into massive golden yellow flowers by the fall.

The plantings came together thanks to Chris Friedl, 26, from Backwoods Landscaping. A 2012 Comsewogue graduate, he said he was very empathetic to the 2020 graduating class who were missing out on so much as a normal senior year.

“It sucks, there’s no other way to put it,” Friedl said. “Going through all they’re going through with all this adversity, it’s incredible.”

Andrew Harris, a special education teacher in the district, said he floated the idea to district officials earlier this year. Friedl jumped at the chance to help. He was also the person who do-

Chris Friedl, of Backwoods Landscaping and a Comsewogue High School graduate, plants sunflowers for Comsewogue’s graduating seniors. Photo by Andrew Harris

nated material for Jackie’s Garden several years ago. He has come back now and again to provide small upkeep to the flower boxes.

After clearing and cleaning the empty planting boxes, the district hosted a ceremony May 16 where students’ names were read as the landscaper planted the seeds.

Friedl asked if he could plant a seed for Joe and Jackie Rella. Though the garden was meant for students, Harris told him he could.

“He always remembered my name out of

thousands of students,” Friedl said of Rella.

“Nobody had a bad word to say about him or Jackie, which just says miles about the kind of people they were.”

A day and a half after they were planted, Harris said he came back to the garden. There, growing in the earth, he thought he saw weeds.

Normally sunflowers take five to 10 days before one sees them start to sprout, but the two seeds planted for the Rellas were indeed springing from the earth.

“The hair on the back of my neck started to stand up,” Harris said. “I remembered how when I told Dr. Rella about this particular butterfly that kept coming back to our garden, even though we never had any butterflies before. He told me in his gruff Brooklyn-accented voice, ‘Andy, I believe with every fiber in my body that that is a sign from Jackie.’ I looked at the new sunflower sprout and had no doubt about what it meant.”

Official info on Comsewogue graduations is still to be determined, though students were delivered their caps and gowns this week.

Friedl offered some advice to seniors.

“Stay strong, the entire community is behind you, and keep your path,” he said. “The community really wants you to succeed.”

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Code Enforcement will be inspecting businesses and restaurants to ensure they’re not blocking too much of the curb or that they’re adhering to the CDC distancing guidelines.

“We’re trying to keep it so that it’s nice looking and it’s not an overload of stuff,” Garant said.

Alana Miletti, the owner of the boutique shop Fame and Rebel, said she has survived in the grueling months of the pandemic thanks to her active social media helping facilitate online orders. Though on Wednesday she said with customers able to browse, even in a limited capacity, she had not had a moment’s rest fulfilling orders since the store opened.

“People couldn’t wait to come out,” she said.

Now with Phase Two salons and haircutters are finally able to open. Melissa Hanley, the owner of Salon Blonde, said she managed to survive during the nearly three full months she was shut down thanks to federal loans. Being back in action, however, means a world of difference.

“It’s been scary — we’ve been struggling a little bit,” Hanley said. “It’s such a relief.

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PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS of Article XI, Section 250-50 of the Code of the Inc. Village of Port Jefferson, the Zoning Board of Appeals will hold a public hearing via zoom posted live on YouTube on June 25, 2020 at 7:30PM.

BID #20035 – Removal and Lawful Disposal of Deer Carcass(es) to the Town of Brookhaven Landfill June 16, 2020

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, JUNE 17, 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. 85-55 (B) of the Building Zone Ordinance of the Town of Brookhaven.

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Fake/Misleading Posts About Protests Promote Undue Anxiety, Officials Say

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite officials saying practically all protests in Suffolk County have been peaceful to this point, unfounded rumors of potential violence are still being spread through social media, causing concern while protesters continue to call for an end to racial injustice and police violence.

Throughout last week, a flyer promoting a protest in Smithtown held Sunday made its way through social media. The flyer depicted marchers holding up their fists in the classic black power symbol, though it also shows fires from Minneapolis. It included the words, “Bring your spirit in all its inferno.”

Residents online, in both Smithtown and neighboring townships, took that image and dialogue surrounding the protest to mean it would somehow involve violence. The main person promoting the protest, who on Twitter and Instagram goes by the name @plasticbagnomad, commented that it was planned to be “a peaceful demonstration,” and the protesters were “not advocating for violence at all.”

Her real name is Caitlin Matos-Rodriguez, of Central Islip, and she said there has been much misinformation on social media about her and the protest. Because of the misinformation and rumors, she has received multiple violent threats to her and other protesters from residents.

“I have never condoned violence on this protest,” she said. “My goal of this protest [was] to bring our voices into segregated towns of Long Island. Our roots on Long Island rival next to Jim Crow [laws] of the South — you can see that by the geography of Long Island alone.”

Referencing the general segregated nature of Long Island’s townships (Smithtown is more than 90 percent white, according to census data), she added the point of the protests is to help open up more job opportunities, real estate opportunities and credit building opportunities for marginalized people of color.

The Town of Smithtown released a statement June 2 in advance of the Sunday protest. While it mostly spoke of the June 7 march it also related to “a number of rumors, hoaxes, photos of fake advertisements for paid anarchists, and false posts of looting, night-time demonstrations and other fictitious posts [that] have flooded social media, inflaming unbecoming verbal response and panic amidst a pandemic.” In conclusion, the statement noted that this is “a time of mourning, a time when we should all come together in peace.”

“This is a young woman who is motivated to express her First Amendment right to assemble,” Smithtown spokesperson Nicole

People march during a follow up rally in Smithtown June 9. Protests on June 7 were largely peaceful, save for confrontations with counterprotesters. Photo by David Luces

Garguilo said.

Garguilo added that residents were subjected to “a storm of false information,” including that bricks were being placed around the county to be used by protesters or even rumors that Macy’s department store in Smith Haven Mall was being looted.

On Wednesday, June 3, police posted to its Facebook page that there were rumors circulating around social media about piles of bricks being left at specific locations, as if to incite violence, and of bricks being thrown at cars below overpasses, but the department has not received any credible information toward those reports.

More people in surrounding communities have worked to stress that such protests would remain peaceful. Julio Taku Jr., a Huntington resident and journalism student at Stony Brook University, said he and other community activists saw the reaction to the Smithtown protest and have sought to clarify what was happening.

The protest took off June 7, and though most reports showed it was peaceful, there were several instances captured on video of people shouting racist slurs at protesters, where people at the march responded with insults as well.

There were some moments of tension between protesters and counterprotesters, including an incident that grew violent and allegedly left several young protesters hurt and bloody. Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes and 4th Precinct detectives are still investigating the alleged incident, according to the SCPD, but details have not come forward as of press time.

There were follow-up protests that spread through several areas of Smithtown June 9, and a reporter on the scene described it as more disjointed than the first, yet still peaceful.

In community Facebook pages, mentions of this and other protests have been responded to PROTEST INFO Continued on A13

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Municipalities Succeed and Struggle to Have Open Meetings During Pandemic

BY KYLE BARR KYLE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM “Hello?” “Can you hear me?”

“Would that person please mute their mic?” “We can hear your dog barking/ child yelling/lawn mower going …” and on and on.

These are comments well known to anybody who’s been paying attention to government meetings, of municipalities large and small, in this time of pandemic. When Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed an executive order which temporarily nixed the requirements for local governments to hold in-person meetings, many organizations quickly had to come up with some sort of workaround to still hold their legally required meetings, though staying as socially distanced as possible while still remaining open for public view.

Zoom meetings, YouTube Live video, these are the new tools for conducting government business, but not all are equal in just how “open” these meetings are.

New York Coalition for Open Government, a small nonprofit organization, known until recently as Buffalo Niagara Coalition for Open Government, came out with a report May 12 grading different levels of government on their transparency, with all meetings being held online. The New York State Committee on Open Government, which is run from Albany under the Department of State, has opined that governments would still have to host visible livestreamed meetings to conform to both the governor’s executive order and the current Open Meetings Law. Some governing bodies have interpreted the governor’s order to mean a body could meet without allowing public access. The coalition organization instead points to opinions by the committee and people from the governor’s office that says agencies and all local governments should allow access to livestreamed meetings.

Kristin O’Neill, assistant director for the state Committee on Open Government, said in a phone interview that local governing bodies “must afford remote access to the meeting while the meeting is going on.” This does not have to be a video livestream, but it must allow the public the ability to listen to that meeting. She said it is not enough to post a transcript or video after for the public to listen to or read.

The nonprofit’s report found only four of 21 governments surveyed from all of New York state had met all their

criteria, including having all meetings livestreamed, having videos/audio posted online after the meeting and having all meeting documents posted online prior to the meeting.

The coalition included another metric though it’s not required by the Open Meetings Law, specifically asking whether a government was soliciting public comments that are heard and/or seen during the meeting.

The open government coalition president, Paul Wolf, an attorney in upstate New York, said he feels it’s important for local governments to be judged on their willingness to listen to the public, despite it not being required by law.

“All right, there’s a pandemic going on, but you” can still hear from the public and hear their concerns,” he said. “[We had] some pushback and controversy on grades, but you have to somehow rank people and and have some calculation who’s doing good.”

Suffolk County and the Town of Brookhaven were given “B” rankings by the committee, noting both were not addressing public comments in their meetings. As of their last meetings in May and early June, both town and the county board meetings still were not enabling public comment.

“It’s good to push for this stuff, and that seems to be one of few ways to get elected officials’ attention that seems to prompt some change,” Wolf said.

That’s not to say it hasn’t been difficult for local government to make the adjustment to online meetings. Suffolk County Legislature Presiding Officer Rob Calarco (D-Patchogue) said the governing body had to figure things out on the fly. The last time all legislators were together for in-person meetings was May 17. He added it took time to get proper guidance from the state regarding hosting meetings. So far during the pandemic, the legislature has only allowed comment during public hearings.

Calarco said some legislators have made comments that current meetings have not been sufficiently open.

“I get that, and it is important for us to be transparent, but we have been trying to do it as effectively as we can,” he said. “For local government [having public comment] is an integral part of how our meetings operate — for residents to have ability to speak to us in public fashion.”

The next general meeting, June 9, will be the first time in two months the legislature will have a timeslot for

public comment. People can visit the legislature’s website at scnylegislature. us and scroll down to the link for submitting public comment.

Brookhaven, on the other hand, is looking more toward a time when they can host in person meetings again, according to town spokesperson Kevin Molloy. He said Brookhaven has had to work through technical difficulties, but is complying with the law and the parameters of the governor’s executive order, adding there were no current plans to createa a public portion during online meetings.

The town allows for comment on public hearings, which can be submitted either in writing or with the person joining the town’s online meeting in video form. Molloy said the town has tried to push back non-time sensitive public hearings until later dates.

“We’re certainly trying to improve it, that means improvements in technology and the board is always trying to improve access to public,” Molloy said.

Despite this, different levels of government, including school districts, have found varying levels of success keeping their meetings open and responsive to the public.

TBR News Media has run through all school districts, villages and towns in our coverage area to check if its meeting four simple criteria. The point is not to degrade some and promote others, but to offer a means of comparison and give examples for how they can improve their openness to the public. Because of this, we have eschewed a letter grading system for our local governing bodies.

Port Jefferson Village is allowing for public comment via chat on YouTube but, as it has done in the past, has only hosted public portions every other week. Though this may have worked until now, the circumstances of the pandemic mean it may be time to change that policy.

School districts were perhaps the most consistent among municipalities for providing documentation and at least some communication of meetings and inquiries from residents. The Comsewogue school district has hosted a bevy of online options for students and district residents, including a website dedicated to offering stress relief for students, multiple Zoom meetings directly with students and a video of the budget hearing. However, the district has not posted any of its online board meetings after the fact to its website.

Grading Criteria (according to New York Coalition for Open Government) • Are meetings being live streamed?

• Are meeting videos/audio posted online after the meeting?

• Are all meeting documents being posted online prior to the meeting?

• While not required by the Open Meetings Law, are local governments soliciting public comments that are heard/ seen during the meeting?

Suffolk County 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed through county website Meetings video/audio/documents available after meeting Meeting documents available before meeting Public are not able to comment on agenda Town of Brookhaven 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed and can be accessed by cable Channel 18 Meetings video/audio/documents available after meeting Meeting documents available before meeting Public are allowed public comment only during public hearings Village of Belle Terre 3/4 Meetings are held via Zoom with notifications sent to residents Meetings video/audio is not readily available post meeting Meeting documents are posted before meetings are held Public is available to make comments during regular meetings Village of Port Jefferson 4/4 Meetings are being livestreamed Meetings videos/audio/agendas posted online Meeting documents posted before meeting Comments being posted through YouTube then addressed by board, but only every other meeting Village of Old Field 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed with links sent to residents via Zoom Meetings audio/video not posted online though minutes are Meeting documents not posted before meetings Trustee meetings regularly allow two public comment periods Village of Poquott 3/4 Meetings can be accessed via dial-in code Meeting video/audio of latest meetings not available Documents are posted prior to meetings Public is able to make comments during meetings Mount Sinai School District 4/4 Meetings livestreamed via Zoom and on Facebook Video of meeting posted afterward Agendas posted prior to meetings Questions from audience addressed during meeting Port Jefferson School District 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed Meetings audio/visual/documentation available post meeting Meeting agenda available before meeting Public is not able to make comments during meetings Comsewogue School District 2/4 Public has access to meetings via livestream Meeting audio/video not available post meeting Documents are available prior to meeting via BoardDocs Questions are not being addressed at meetings

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NY1 Democratic Candidates Face Off in Debate

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM

On June 1, the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons and North Fork held a debate between the four candidates vying for the Democratic nomination and who will then face off against incumbent Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) for the New York’s 1st Congressional District seat. The nominees in the upcoming primary election June 23 are Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming (D-Sag Harbor), last year’s front-runner Perry Gershon, former educator Nancy Goroff and Gregory Fisher, who has run for multiple local offices over the years.

Though the debate went on for more than an hour and a half, it did not touch on points such as the current protests against racism and police violence currently rocking the nation.

Here’s what they had to say on a number of key issues and challenges facing the district.

1.On what issues do you think there is a reasonable possibility of enacting legislation to benefit the country?

Fleming: I’m known as someone who has reached across the aisle and looks at problems and challenges with an eye toward hearing from all stakeholders. Then taking on the tough decisions to move forward. I have a proven record on that.

There are a number of issues that face our congressional district. One, for instance, is immigration. Many people feel that the current immigration system needs comprehensive reform. Individuals are so enamored with special interests.

Another issue is the epidemic of gun violence.

There is a consensus in the country on commonsense background checks, on a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on high-capacity magazines.

There are many issues upon which the country agrees but because of the influence of special interests and someone like Lee Zeldin, who has a perfect record from the NRA, caters to those special interests. We can get beyond that.

Gershon: The goal when I’m your congressman is to enact policy that we can do on a bipartisan basis whenever possible. There is a crying need for certain policies as we go forward and try to climb out of the coronavirus-based recession.

That’s building jobs. How do you do that? With infrastructure and investing in our economy. There was a glaring need for infrastructure even before coronavirus, and it’s doubled or tripled now.

From left, Perry Gershon, Nancy Goroff, Bridget Fleming and Gregory Fisher are running for State Senate D1. File photos

We have the opportunity for green jobs, green energy in a new economy. We need Democrats and Republicans cooperating with each other.

That obviously starts with getting [President] Donald Trump (R) out of the White House. With a uniter in the White House we can pass policies and take it beyond infrastructure, we can go to health care, the other real priority for America.

We can build on the Affordable Care Act. We can make sure Americans understand that health care is a right not a privilege.

Goroff: If I’m elected my top priority is to make sure we are taking meaningful action on climate change, which is the largest threat we face to our way of life, even today. I can do that by acting as a resource for members of Congress from both sides of the aisle — making sure they have access to the best information available, making sure all their questions are answered and holding their feet to the fire to ensure we are taking action. We will make sure we are setting ambitious targets as we strive for a carbon zero economy.

We invest in deploying existing technologies, in reusable energy, in clean vehicles, and in clean buildings.

Fisher: One of the important issues is that voters don’t feel like they are being listened to.

They are looking at a lack of access to their representatives. We are crippled economically, people are out of a job and can’t pay their bills. They want to know how you are going to get things done and get us out of trouble.

I subscribed to a philosophy called a decentralized autonomous organization, where citizens can input every detail, on what they want to influence. I have an economic plan that will eliminate the scarcity caused by this long-term economic shutdown.

2. As a congressperson what specific proposals would you support to improve our immigration system?

Goroff: We need to take action toward making comprehensive immigration reform. We must prepare a pathway to citizenship for our Dreamers and we must make sure we are allowing families to be reunited. We can’t be separating children from their families at the border and we should be considering more effective/ humane ways to help people coming in who want to claim asylum.

The fact that people have to wait for months or years, and now we are imprisoning them — is unnecessary and unconscionable. We should be looking at why we have such a stream of refugees coming to our border. There are programs that were started in Central America by the Obama administration to help refugees on the ground, so they don’t have to leave. We need to make sure we are reinstating these programs that can keep refugees from thinking the only opportunity is to walk 1,000 miles across Mexico. Our policy must be humane and must live up to our American values.

Fisher: Most citizens want several points addressed. They want registration, they don’t want a secret population, they want taxation, they want to make sure they are paying their share.

The other one is assimilation and education so that those people are ready for our society.

There are people out there that are starving for the opportunity to be a part of this American dream.

Fleming: The immigration system in the United States is deeply broken and needs comprehensive immigration reform. It needs to be the top priority of anyone’s agenda who is looking to take a job on Capitol Hill.

We need to fix our broken visa system. Luckily in Suffolk County, we have allies in the farm community who have been deeply hurt by the system and can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops. That is an alliance we can lean on in Suffolk County to move that process forward and make reforms.

We need to end separations of families at the border. It is inhumane and unacceptable.

We need a clean DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] bill, we need to restore TPS [Temporary Protected Status]. We need to ensure that the border is secure, but secure because we have undertaken a system of immigration that is fair and humane.

Gershon: It’s no secret that immigration was a challenge in this country even before the election of Donald Trump. We have been trying to solve our immigration issue for many years and under many different presidents.

Trump has made a bad situation and made it worse. We’ve got to take care of the Dreamers, people who are in this country through no fault of

their own, who did not commit a crime, and have no nation they call home except America. We need to give them a path to citizenship, we need to take care of TPS recipients. We need to have defensible borders, we need to have a system where people do not just flock into America. We need to be able to secure our borders and be able to maintain them while we take care of the people here.

3.How can we bring affordable housing, job creation to LI, especially for millennials?: Goroff: Now with COVID-19, millennials are facing another challenge in getting their careers started. As a lifelong educator, I believe in making education available to people and to make it affordable. That means making sure we have sufficient Pell grants for our students. So people and families can afford excellent degrees and they can get good jobs.

We also need to make sure all jobs are paying a true livable wage and that means investing in new jobs here, like clean energy and increasing the minimum wage. We also need to address the health care issue because it is a burden on businesses.

Fisher:We have created a generation of homeless millennials. Why? Because they can’t leave their parents’ homes, they can’t afford to buy a house or pay the rent for an apartment.

They are living late in life at their parent’s houses. My plan would include a revamp of the tax system, so we have money to invest [in the economy]. Education should be a right, we need to build America. We need to fundamentally make a new commitment to young people and realize that we have betrayed them.

Fleming: This is one of the critical challenges here in Suffolk County and in NY1. It is something at the county legislature we have attacked with real intention and real success. For instance, look at the Village of Patchogue and the surrounding areas.

The developments of these vibrant downtowns are encouraging young people to stay on Long Island and make a life here.

I’ve been fighting for affordable housing since my time on the [Southampton] town board.

Gershon: People want to stay here and not to be forced to move away because of better jobs.

The way we fix that is get better paying jobs here on Long Island so that young people can move here. Also, we need to improve their educational prospects by not having them come out of school massively burdened by student debt. We need to do things like reducing the cost of student debt.

The federal government should not be making a profit off it by lending to our students so they can afford to go to college. The government should be facilitating college education.

We can give people the opportunity to pay off some of their student debt in exchange for national service. Let them be teachers, let them do things that will improve our own society.

On affordable housing, we need to bring money into Long Island. We need to fund housing for the middle class, we need to find a way that doesn’t force people away. The government can do that, it can be a federal policy. We need fair development as well.

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Black Community Leaders Speak on What LI Needs to Do to Combat Injustice

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis two weeks ago spurred nationwide protests and renewed conversations on police brutality and systemic racism in this country. TBR News Media reached out to prominent leaders in the black community to get their perspective on what needs to change and what immediate actions can be taken as we move forward. Here’s what they had to say.

Al Jordan, clinical associate professor at Stony Brook Medicine and former dean for Student and Minority Affairs:

We will need to work on life after the protests end, that’s when the hard work really starts. We will really need to see change in policy and in laws, not just on the national level but the local level as well.

Voter registration — getting more people to vote — is the most immediate change we can work on right now.

It will take educating people, including family, friends and community members. It means engaging with people, it’s tough work but people can listen and be persuaded. Some may not, but it is another effective way of change.

You look at the segregation on Long Island, whether it’s in housing or in school districts, the racial, social and economic disparities — it feeds into the larger issue.

When it comes to training police officers, it has to begin with the individual person. What’s on their mind, how do they feel? Act on that framework. You also have to change the people who run things and who are at the top.

I’m optimistic, I believe in people. I see it in the young people, something that’s different from what I and others were doing in the 1960s. They have been able to bridge the gap, that cultural divide, and been able to find that common ground.

It has given me a lot of hope, seeing these young people like my own grandchildren engaging in these positive activities and important discussions.

Errol Toulon Jr. (D), Suffolk County sheriff: All law enforcement need to reevaluate how they train their officers and how they operate. I don’t know how an officer with 18 prior complaints was allowed to continue to interact with the public.

Unfortunately, due to this recent incident and others like it, mistrust toward law enforcement is at an all-time high. We need to work together

to regain that trust.

It’s having a conversation with them. It starts by talking to them and hearing their concerns, answering their questions and hopefully giving them a good understanding of what we do.

99 percent of police officers who come to work to serve and protect are good men and women. But those who do wrong need to be held accountable. Supervisors need to be held accountable as well.

Whether it is additional training or suspension it needs to be addressed immediately.

One thing departments and agencies can do is increase cultural awareness and diversity training. A lot of times these teachings end once they leave the door of the academy. We have to make sure that officers remain engaged with the black and minority communities. We must have respect for each other.

Another thing is making sure we are talking to our staff — monitoring their emotional and mental well being.

[On Monday, Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office announced the creation of a community advisory board to give residents an opportunity to meet regularly with the sheriff and staff and discuss concerns. The board will consist of five people from East End townships and five from the western towns in Suffolk. Members will serve for a one-year term.

“Current events have demonstrated that people from all racial and ethnic backgrounds are frustrated with law enforcement, and they have some legitimate reasons to feel this way,” Toulon said in a release.]

Elaine Gross, president of Syosset-based nonprofit ERASE Racism:

There’s currently conversation changing police policy, there’s a legislative package up in Albany that will be voted on soon. I’m pleased to hear that.

But we also need to have a conversation on how we got to where we are. There is structural racism.

On Long Island, due to segregation in school districts,, we know public school education looks very different in terms of the resources for black and minority students compared to white students.

This is a disparity that gets lost — people are not aware of it or just don’t want to talk about

Top, Tracey Edwards, LI chapter president of the NAACP, spoke at a rally held in Hauppauge June 7; below, Kenny Charles, who has organized protests in Hungintgon, spoke at that same rally. Photos by Kyle Barr

it. An education policy needs to be made a priority, and that means increasing the percentage of educators of color in the classroom — that includes Black, Latinx and Asian teachers. We have seen the benefits of students in a diverse learning environment.

In addition to the package up in Albany, we need an independent prosecutor, not someone who works closely with the police department. We have seen so many cases where so little happens and no charges brought down [on officers accused of misconduct]. It sort of goes away. We need to continue to strengthen race crime measures and increase body cams in law enforcement.

I’ve had forums with high school students in the past on structural racism, and I believe students are beginning to have a better understanding of what’s happening in the world and are more open to it than adults. I look to the students and young people to carry the movement forward.

Valerie Cartright, Brookhaven Town councilwoman (D-Port Jefferson Station): It is clear that there is a movement happening, people are stepping up and saying, “Enough is enough.”

For 8 minutes and 46 seconds, the George Floyd incident showed white people in this country what it is like to be black in America.

‘You can be 100 percent pro-police and 100 percent against police misconduct.’

—Tracey Edwards, June 7 Hauppauge rally

Now our voices are being heard.

There is legislation being passed in New York State that I support that is moving us in the right direction, but it is only scratching the surface. It is a good first step. We need to acknowledge these injustices and take immediate action.

We should have already had access to disciplinary records of officers — this information should have been made public. Also, we need to change the police culture. We need to make sure police officers feel comfortable in speaking out against bad officers. We have to have strong whistleblower protection.

I have represented [as an attorney] police officers who have spoken up about their comrades and they often face retaliation for violating or going against the brotherhood.

The majority of police officers are good people but if we don’t get rid of hate, racism and discrimination in these departments then we are never going to change the system.

I’m asking everybody to join in this movement, so we can be heard as one voice.

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Faith Communities Use Signs to Support Pride, Unity

BY RITA J. EGAN RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Despite the turbulence the country has been enduring for the past few months, Three Village residents and those in surrounding areas are showing support for all human beings.

Signs featuring the colors of the rainbow with additional black, brown, pink and blue stripes, and bearing the messages, “Our faith community celebrates diversity” on one side and “Our faith community celebrates diversity” on the other, have popped up on random lawns the last couple of weeks. The signs are the result of a committee made up of local clergy members and lay people from various faith communities, according to the Rev. Ashley McFaul-Erwin, community outreach pastor at Setauket Presbyterian Church.

The pastor said the group was in the early stages of planning the first Three Village pride walk for June but then the pandemic happened.

The members threw around the idea of a car parade but weren’t sure how they could do that safely and decided the signs would enable them to display the message in front of their homes and religious buildings.

McFaul-Erwin said it was an important

message to share with many Christian churches having discriminated against the LGBTQ community in the past. The blue and pink stripes were added to represent transgender people and black and brown stripes are to show unity with people of color.

The Rev. Linda Anderson, community minister in affiliation with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at Stony Brook, said she thought it was a brilliant idea.

“The signs will last longer than a parade,” she said. “They can be spread out more widely.

It’ll just keep saying the message of peace, love of humanity, justice and fairness.”

Elaine Learnard, a Quaker and member of Conscience Bay Friends Meeting, agreed.

“I think it’s a great way to do it and very creative during this time where everything is so crazy,” she said.

Barbara Ransome, director of operations of the Greater Port Jefferson Chamber of Commerce, was part of the committee as a member of Conscience Bay Friends Meeting.

She said she has one on her lawn and also placed one in front of the chamber office.

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McFaul-Erwin said the Setauket Presbyterian Church also placed a pink triangle on the Village Green with 51 flags.

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SBU’s Kaushansky Talks Possibility of 2nd Wave of COVID-19 Dean Talks Cultural Sensitivity and Race in Face of Pandemic

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF DESK@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, the dean of the Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, is eager to restart the educational mission of training medical school students.

While Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) has said that medical schools can restart on June 22, Kaushansky has asked for a waiver to allow students to continue to build on their clinical knowledge sooner.

“I was worried about the delay in doing the experiential learning,” Kaushansky said.

A delay that lasts too long could push graduation back for the rising fourth year students, which is “not good for any health care professional. We need health care professionals, including respiratory therapists, physical therapists, nurses and social workers” among others.

On top of the need to ensure on-time graduation for the Class of 2021, he said another wave of the COVID-19 crisis will increase the demand for graduates.

The medical school dean —Kenneth said Stony Brook University Hospital is watching carefully the protests over the death of Minneapolis resident George Floyd at the hands of a police officer charged with his murder. The hospital and staff are ready in the event of a spike in demand for health care after large gatherings on Long Island and in New York City.

“We are ready to mobilize on a moment’s notice because we did it the first” time, albeit with numerous questions about the course and potential treatment for the new virus, Kaushansky said.

On Saturday, he sent out a letter to the health sciences community addressing what he termed “health care racism.”

“We witnessed the sum of all these effects in the disproportionate lethal burden of

COVID-19 on communities of color, a combination of overcrowding at home, of jobs that do not allow the protection afforded by work from home, or from the disproportionate burden of health care conditions that arise, in part, from health care disparities,” he wrote in the letter. He urged the Stony Brook community to “do everything in our power to work toward erasing the social determinants of disease that contribute to our unequal society.”

He urged learners and critical staff to develop and practice cultural sensitivities, and he also suggested that the school should make “certain our graduates reflect the diverse society in which we live.”

In its admission decisions, SBU includes the notion of overcoming hardship as a part of the process through which the school evaluates prospective students.

In the coming years, Kaushansky plans to emphasize further the importance of encouraging those who have faced significant hurdles in applying to the medical school.

In terms of treating patients who have COVID-19, he is encouraged by the use of remdesivir and convalescent plasma. The school has these treatments available for people who are sick and is studying the effectiveness of these approaches.

More than 1,500 patients have been admitted through the university hospital, Southampton and Eastern Long Island hospitals and have benefited from the clinical study of symptoms including clots.

Surgeons had noticed that D-dimer levels, which are proteins that indicate the presence of clots, were shooting up. They decided when this protein reached a certain level, they would use Kaushansky a full dose of anticoagulants.

Stony Brook has put the results of these aggressive anticoagulant treatments into an article that has been submitted for publication.

In the meantime, the university has taken an across-the-board approach to raising anticoagulants.

“That will improve the mortality rate should we get a second wave,” Kaushansky predicted.

In the event of a second wave, Stony Brook Hospital and, indeed, New York will be better prepared, with more tests, greater awareness and contact tracing.

Kaushansky believes that the people who have already fought off the virus are presumably immune from getting it a second time.

What’s unclear, he explained, is whether the antibody test is predictive of resistance. Addi-

‘We witnessed the sum of all these effects in the disproportionate lethal burden of COVID-19 on communities of color.’

Dr. Kenneth Kaushansky, the Dean of the medical school at SBU, said there’s a real possibilty of a second wave of COVID-19. File photo

tionally, it’s unclear how long that resistance will last.

He expects that monoclonal antibodies can work, but that they should be reserved for the sickest patients. They are expensive and are hard to produce the level necessary for the U.S. population of more than 300 million people.

What worries the Stony Brook dean is that people have had enough of staying at home, social distancing and wearing masks. In the worst of the crisis, when the numbers of people sick and dying were climbing, Kaushansky could get to work in much less time than normal, as traffic on the roads had lightened up considerably.

Days before the Phase 2 reopening, which began on Wednesday of this week, the level of traffic has returned to a more normal density.

Meanwhile, Phase 2 for Stony Brook University involves reopening research laboratories and allowing people who were previously deemed nonessential workers to return to the labs in an “orderly and safe fashion,” Kaushansky said.

The university has installed plexiglass shields, requires social distancing, built partitions between people who don’t have their own offices, and requires everyone to wear masks and have their temperatures taken when they come to work.

The hospital opened up for elective sur-

gery two weeks ago. Everyone who is scheduled for surgery has to get a viral swab the day before.

The approach the university has taken in requiring personal protective equipment and social distancing has paid off for hospital staff who have been exposed to all those sick patients. The rate of antibody tests of employees is much lower than in the general community.

“It’s safer to be a frontline health worker at Stony Brook than to work at some grocery stories,” Kaushansky said.

On the clinical side, he believes Stony Brook Hospital needs more highly skilled nurses. At the peak, the university hospital had 437 patients. If it had reached 500, “we would have been in trouble,” he added.

Upstate New York had sent 20 experienced nurses to help out.

“Nursing is important and high-level nursing, operating-room nursing, was particularly stressed,” Kaushansky said. “We need to hire more nurses.”

He added that the school trains excellent nurses and plans to hire some of its own graduates.

In terms of medical school classes, the dean said the university hasn’t decided yet whether to bring small groups back together. The big lecture halls will still involve remote teaching.

“Are the smaller group educational exercises going to be back safely?” he asked. “I’m working to make that happen.”

Kaushansky takes solace in the way PPE reduced the infection rate for the hospital as a whole, and believes such an approach could work for medical school classes as well.

Obituary Robert Purdy

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After retirement, Bob and Betty moved to New Hampshire, living in Moultonborough and then in Meredith. They wintered in Nevada for 16 years and enjoyed all the activities Las Vegas offers. They found pleasure in traveling across the country with their motor home often visiting their 16 grandchildren.

Bob always found time to serve his community. He was a 60-year Lions Club Member and served twice as president in both Rocky Point and Moultonborough, New Hampshire. He was honored as a Melvin Jones Fellow for his dedication to humanitarian services. He was co-founder of the NH Annie Forts Up Fund, serving 15 years for those with special needs, particularly Down syndrome.

Bob delivered for Meals on Wheels and was active in the Moultonborough Methodist Church as trustee and finance committee member.

He is survived by his loving wife Betty and his five children and their spouses: Stephen and Cheryl Purdy of Charlottesville, Virginia; Timothy and Cynthia Purdy of Wading River; Daniel and Tamara Purdy of Point Pleasant, New Jersey; Robert and Karen Purdy of Aspen, Colorado; and Kathleen and Dr. David Goldberg of Manchester, New Hampshire. His brother Keith Purdy and his 16 grandchildren also survive him. He is preceded in death by his sister Joan Derby. Bob left an amazing legacy and his impact will never be forgotten.

The family will plan a celebration of his life at a later date. Donations in his honor can be made to the Moultonboro Methodist Church, P.O. Box 188, Moultonborough, NH, 03254 or to the Moultonborough Lions Club,Moultonborough Lions Club, P.O. Box 215, Moultonborough, NH 03254. Lions Club P.O. Box 215

two people in Shirley June 1. Police said they responded to about 70 protesters who were marching down toward the 7th Precinct along William Floyd Parkway, shutting the road from north of Sunrise Highway to the precinct building. Road closures stretched from Sunrise Highway to the Long Island Expressway. Police said the two people didn’t listen to police about staying in a designated area.

Suffolk County Police Commissioner Geraldine Hart said in a video posted to the police Facebook she thanked the protesters while citing department initiatives with diversity training and other practices to reduce police violence.

“I want to recognize the protesters who have got their message out in a peaceful manner — we are listening,” she said.

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with posts that suggest residents will resort to violence to stave off violent protests in their communities. So far all protests on the North Shore of Long Island have been reported as peaceful. While there have been nearly daily rallies in the Huntington area for the past several days, for eastern Suffolk in the TBR News Media coverage area, the closest rallies have taken place in Setauket, Port Jefferson Station and Riverhead, some involving hundreds of people peacefully protesting alongside a police presence.

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He was born in 1930 in Canandaigua and was the son of the late Stuart Purdy and Ruth Bliss Purdy. He grew up on a family farm and graduated from Canandaigua Academy in 1949 and went on to attend Alfred State College and obtained Chartered Life Underwriter and Chartered Financial Consultant designations from American College.

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One thing we should all find comfort in is that people are not willing to let injustice go unanswered.

Anyone who has a shred of decency and an ounce of moral concern knows that what happened to Minneapolis man George Floyd was brutal, cruel and a significant abuse of power. Police officer Derek Chauvin placed his knee on the neck of a man for just under nine minutes, despite video evidence showing he did not present any danger to officers at the scene. Three other police officers looked on while Floyd called out for his mother, dying, without them raising a finger to help or make any point of protest.

To some, this seems just a singular instance of cruelty, but for the massive numbers of protesters rallying and marching around the country, and now the world, it was just another instance of continued injustice on our minority communities.

That is why the protests have been nearly unrelenting. That’s why the movement has spread to all parts of the country, including our backyard.

So far on Long Island, all protests have remained peaceful and have taken place at sites meant to facilitate large gatherings, all with a police presence. There have been some tense moments, and so far two people in Suffolk have been arrested relating to a protest in Shirley, but nowhere on Long Island have we seen the violence taking place in major cities. It’s important we recognize that while those protests have seen injury to both protesters and cops as well as property — though let’s remember that the life of any one individual vastly outweighs any and all damage to structures — there are many instances of police using extreme force on protesters, medics and journalists, as if proving the very point of the need to end such injustice.

But though those kinds of protests are not happening on Long Island, by reading some residents’ opinions on social media, you would think protesters are all walking down suburban streets ready to attack anyone who crosses their paths.

Activists across Long Island have been working very hard to maintain civility with these protests against injustice. That’s not to say events haven’t gotten heated, as in the case with protests in Merrick which faced plenty of racist sentiment and in Smithtown where one young man claims he and his friends were attacked. In Huntington, one restaurant owner came under fire for being caught making racist comments about “throwing watermelons at protesters” as they marched through downtown.

He has since made a video apologizing for his remarks.

We all have to understand why these people rally and march.

Long Island remains a very segregated place, as evidenced by a three-year Newsday report displaying racial bias on the part of many real estate agents and agencies. The COVID-19 pandemic has only laid bare the inadequacies, as minority communities have been disproportionately infected while their schools have struggled harder than most to teach their children when many don’t have access to online technology.

We commend the conscientious work of protest leaders, activists, local officials and police to facilitate these rallies and make sure they remain on point and peaceful, and also protect those who rally from being the target of violence as well.

To those residents who look on protesters with concern, often the best way to understand them is to simply speak with them. Start a dialogue. Understand where they’re coming from.

Protests such as these aren’t designed to give certain populations benefit over others, but to reach an equality mandated under the words of the Constitution.

Just remember, if you yourself say you can separate good cops from bad cops, then you can separate peaceful protesters from rioters.

In a letter last week (“Frontline Workers Showed Up, Reps Should Too,” Port Times Record, June 4) U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) criticizes those congresspeople who followed the medical guidelines and didn’t come personally to the House for votes. He also takes a cheap shot at Vice President Joe Biden who followed the medical guidelines to protect himself and his family from COVID-19.

Since he paints himself as a hero for voting in person, we should look at his voting record, according to

Protests on LI Remain Civil Zeldin’s Voting Record Should be Scrutinized politicsthatwork.com.

1. 84.5% of the time he voted in favor of the wealthy.

2. 85.4% of the time he voted to narrow civil rights.

3. 84.6% of the time he voted to tax the middle class.

4. 0% of the time he voted for gun control.

5. 0% of the time he voted for women’s rights.

6. 0% of the time he voted for consumer protection.

Gershon Gets Our Vote Our nation is truly at a crossroads.

What kind of future do we want for ourselves and the generations to come? These are deep soul-searching questions that we need to ask ourselves. The baseline is: What kind of world do we want to live in?

Once we answer these questions then we need to ask: Who will lead us in this pursuit? Choosing a leader is vital in helping us achieve these goals.

In my opinion the current national administration both in Washington and locally is sadly and horrifically taking the nation in the wrong direction. The behavior

of our current president and his henchman U.S. Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY1) is based on deceit, fear, ignorance, hate, antagonism and division. If these are the qualities that you want in our future nation, then so be it. Let’s keep these characters in their political offices. But if these qualities are not what you want in our national future, if you think we can do better, then we need to use the power of our vote to change our governance. I support the election of Perry Gershon for Congress in District 1.

Mr. Gershon is an educated, successful, honest, family man who lost the elec-

7. 0% of the time he voted for countering Russian intervention.

8. 0% of the time he voted for financial sector regulation.

9. 27.7% of the time he voted for funding public health.

10. 27.3% of the time he voted to fund education.

With a record like that it would have been better for him to stay safely at home and not harm the rest of us.

Adam D. Fisher Port Jefferson Station

tion to Congress two years ago by only a few points. After that loss he did not hide away from future political competition, but he learned from the experience and continued to tirelessly and steadfastly travel and interact with the many diverse communities in CD1. This steadfastness toward a goal and the desire to surround himself with knowledgeable experienced advisers is why I think Mr. Gershon is the best candidate running for Congress from CD1. He gets our family vote.

Deirdre Hensen Miller Place

When do Demonstrations Become Mobs?

In the city of Minneapolis, the world witnessed an action that should never have happened, and, in my mind, should never be forgiven. Should all people, everywhere, work to see that it never happens again?

Unquestionably, yes. But when does a justified demonstration become a mob riot? Am I the only one that sees similarities between what has been happening in our cities and what happened in Germany of the 1930s?

In Germany a legitimate grievance was usurped by people on the fringes of society. This morphed into the German

National Socialist or Nazi political party. They brought the world things like Kristallnacht and World War II. Is that what anyone with half a brain wants?

Before you follow the lead of many politicians and news personalities, ask yourself this question: How is your next door neighbor, or perhaps you yourself, to arrest someone who has been reported to have committed a crime and is physically resisting that arrest? What level of physical injury should the arresting individual be willing to sustain to protect society?

While you are answering that question keep in mind there are always those who will misuse power and authority and therefore must be kept in check. How do you balance those issues?

Now think of one more thing. We change the 911 system so that it goes to elected politicians and news personalities.

If you were to call for help how many of them would come to your aid?

These, as always, are just one man’s opinions. What do you think?

Francis G. Gibbons Sr. Terryville

The opinions of columnists and letter writers are their own. They do not speak for the newspaper.

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Oh, wait, there, I did it again. I’m so sorry.

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Yes, of course, I’m fine. Why do you ask?

I’m so happy we’re entering Phase Two this week, you know? It’s a relief. I’m desperate for a haircut and I’m sure you are, too.

No, I didn’t mean to say that I thought you needed a haircut. Your hair looks great and the customer is always right.

Anyway, so I see you’re looking at those boots over there. What an excellent choice!

You clearly have an eye for high fashion. I’m sure my daughter, who is on the other side of the plexiglass, wouldn’t mind taking them off and selling them to you.

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Oh, no, wait, the shipment hasn’t even reached

quarantine yet, so, ha ha, how about if you glance through the rest of the store while I pretend to read this dystopian book that I thought might be a good idea before we started to live in a dystopian society.

What’s that? Oh, well, I’ve had a few cups of coffee this morning because I thought I’d need to be my sharpest and this stupid book kept me up all night. But, hey, I’m like a phoenix, returning to the world of selling and socializing and connecting with my customers, because that, after all, is the key to being successful in business.

Wait, no, please, don’t leave. I know your child is outside screaming. You can bring her in. It’s fine, really. In fact, can I give you a hug?

I was kidding. That was a test and you passed, so, yay for you.

Oh, I see you’re really going. Well, tell your friends about the store. Did I mention that your hair looks great?

Masks Might be Useful in A Poker Game

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his is the year we all disappeared behind our masks. “Who is that masked man?” people would ask about the Lone Ranger, as he rode the range decades ago in every child’s imagination and kept the peace. Now they might ask the same question of us, masked men and women and children, as we peacefully go about our new freedoms of shopping and ordering meals for alfresco dining. We are not always immediately recognizable behind the variety of Between face coverings we see on the streets. you and me The importance

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF of wearing a mask has been accepted by almost everyone, and with good reason. An example of the benefits can be found in Japan.

According to Motoko Rich, a reporter for The New York Times, face coverings are common in Japan during flu and hay fever seasons, on crowded public transportation when commuters commonly have colds and even when women “don’t want to bother putting on makeup.” Mask sightings are routine.

Could that be the explanation for Japan’s surprisingly low number of victims of COVID-19 compared to other countries?

Initially, we Americans were advised not to wear masks, that they were unnecessary and should be saved for hospital workers. We all know what happened next. Cases of novel coronavirus spiked and the number of deaths exceeded the capacity of morgues and funeral homes for weeks. We were directed to shelterin-place. Yet in Japan, which did not order a lockdown or massive testing or emphasize social distancing, and kept karaoke bars open and public transportation packed, terrible spikes in cases and deaths did not occur. The numbers there were 17,000 infections and 900 deaths. Yes, they have a smaller population, but in the United States, whose residents number two-and-one-half

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times that of Japan, some 1.9 million have fallen ill and 110,000 have died.

Eventually bars and businesses did close, and schools were shut early, as cultural and sports events were canceled, but note that none of those restrictions was mandatory. What the people did do was to nearly universally don masks. That response follows a cultural tradition of hundreds of years. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, mining workers used masks to prevent inhaling dust. The Japanese wore them during the 1918 flu epidemic and more recently during SARS and MERS outbreaks, as well as to protect against pollution and pollen. The country was “relatively unscathed,” during the epidemics, according to Motoko Rich.

Members of the scientific community weigh in on the matter. “I think there is definitely evidence coming out of COVID that Japan, as well as other countries which practice mask-wearing, tend to do much better in flattening the curve,” said Akiko Iwasaki, a professor of immunobiology at Yale, as quoted in the NYT. Masks can block respiratory droplets that are emitted when people speak, cough or sneeze.

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Those droplets may carry the virus, even when the wearer has no symptoms, and hence transmit the disease if not captured by the mask.

The reporter goes on to emphasize that masks alone are not sufficient to prevent disease, that social distancing is also required. Even with masks, crowds are a danger for the spread of infection. It will be informative to learn the unintended health consequences of the many protests against racism, triggered by George Floyd’s death under the knee of a police officer, that have occurred over the past two weeks. Most of those protesters, crowded together, seemed to be wearing masks.

From my travels to Japan, I would add a couple of cultural differences to this story. We found the Japanese to bow rather than shake hands and to be a little physically distant with each other rather than hugging often. Their country is, for the most part, amazingly clean and uncluttered, and they seem fastidious about themselves. These traits would also argue in favor of less contagion when disease is present.

I would also like to predict that masks — designer, decorated, color coordinated, whatever — will be with us well after the pandemic ends.

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