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Vol. 46, No. 37

November 4, 2021

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Election 2021

Election night ends in disappointment for many Dems

BY RITA J. EGAN AND JULIANNE MOSHER RITA@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM, JULIANNE@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM Election night, Nov. 2, found many Democratic candidates gathering at the IBEW Local 25 union hall in Hauppauge, while Republicans attended a get together at Stereo Garden in Patchogue. The Hauppauge event was a more somber one as some Democrats in the county lost their seats, while other races were close ones.

Rich Schaffer, who heads up the Suffolk County Democratic Committee, said Tuesday night’s results spoke more about what was happening on the national level than about the candidates.

“This was just, as you see, a big wave that took out some really good elected officials, and if you were a challenger, you had even a steeper row to hoe as opposed to an easy time, like we’ve normally been able to do,” he said.

While candidates and supporters eagerly awaited the results of in-person votes, the final tallies may not be known in some races for a few weeks due to the Suffolk County Board of Elections still needing to count absentee ballots.

Results are as of the morning of Nov. 3.

Suffolk County district attorney

The race between county District Attorney Tim Sini (D) and prosecutor Ray Tierney, who ran on the Republican and Conservative lines, was a contentious one. At the forefront, Tierney questioned whether Sini has been as tough on crime as the DA himself has said, especially regarding the MS-13 gang.

At the end of the night, Tierney emerged the winner with 154,569 votes (57.34%). Sini garnered 114,943 (42.64%). Sini was first elected to the position in 2017.

“I am proud and humbled to stand before you here today,” Tierney said during his victory speech. “Despite being running against an

incumbent, despite not having a lot of money in the beginning, despite not having the support of a lot of institutions — not for one day did I feel like an underdog, because of you guys.”

Tierney added his goal is to “fight every day to keep the citizens of Suffolk County safe.”

“I will reach out into the community to develop relationships so we can all have faith in our district attorney’s office,” he said.

Suffolk County sheriff

Errol Toulon Jr. (D) has been county sheriff since 2017 and was seeking his second term this election season. His opponent, William Amato, who ran on the Republican ticket, was not actively campaigning.

Toulon, who has been county sheriff since 2017, was declared winner with 141,931 votes (54.30%). Amato came close with 119,357 (45.67%).

Toulon Tuesday night was overwhelmed as he thanked those in attendance at the union hall.

“I do want to thank all of you for your constant support, not just your support now, but over the last four years of talking to me and encouraging me during some difficult circumstances in taking over the sheriff’s office, and I hope to do a better job over the next four years than I did over the last four years,” Toulon said.

Suffolk County legislators

The race in the county’s 5th District, which includes the Three Village Area and Port Jefferson, is a tight one. County Legislator Kara Hahn (D-Setauket) was in the lead with 7,582 votes (50.25%). Salvatore Isabella, who ran on the Republican ticket and did not actively campaign, had 7,508 votes (49.75%).

The night was a nail-biter for Hahn, who is up for her sixth term.

“I am cautiously optimistic that once all the votes are counted, voters will return me to office and I’ll be honored to continue to serve my community,” Hahn said in a statement Wednesday morning. “I look forward to continuing my work to protect our Long Island way of life and make a difference for our working families.”

County Legislator Sarah Anker (D-Mount Sinai) was seeking her sixth term in office. The incumbent trailed with 7,141 votes (42.10%).

Town of Brookhaven employee Brendan Sweeney won the race with 8,329 votes (49.11%). The newcomer ran on the Republican ticket. Conservative candidate Anthony DeSimone garnered 1,488 votes (8.77%).

Sweeney declared victory during Tuesday night’s event.

“It feels so good,” he said. “The voters spoke.

They want change for this county and now with me and the rest of the newly elected legislators, we can do what’s best for the people.”

Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon Jr., above, talks to a supporter in Hauppauge after his win Tuesday night. Below, Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn chats with Town of Brookhaven Councilman Jonathan Kornreich while waitin for results. Photos

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Anker said she was hoping to continue as she has many projects she would like to complete.

“I’ll continue to do something to stay in the area of helping people, that’s my goal, my priority, and I appreciate all those people that came out to vote,” she said. “But this was, I think, a national tsunami.”

The legislator added her 6th District is a Republican area, and it has always been an uphill battle for her.

“I’m just very fortunate to have served as long as I have, over 10 years, and do all the projects and initiatives that I have,” she said.

In the 12th District which includes parts of the Town of Smithtown, Lake Grove, Lake Ronkonkoma and Centereach, county Legislator Leslie Kennedy (R-Nesconset) won her fourth term in office with 12,629 votes (74.57%). Her opponent Mike Siderakis, who ran unsuccessfully for state senator against Mario Mattera (R-St. James) last year, stopped actively campaigning this summer. Siderakis obtained 4,301 votes (25.40%).

Kennedy said during her victory speech at Stereo Garden that the win proves how well the party works together.

“We work hard, we have good values and we stand together as a team,” she said.

County Legislator Rob Trotta (R-Fort Salonga) garnered 10,896 votes (53.09%) and won his fifth term in office. Also on the ballot were Democrat Kevin Mulholland, who didn’t actively campaign, and won 4,693

votes (22.87%), and Michael Simonelli on the Conservative ticket, who campaigned but didn’t debate Trotta this election season. Simonelli had 4,932 votes (24.03%).

The district includes parts of Smithtown as well as Fort Salonga and portions of Commack and East Northport.

Trotta in an email statement said, “I am thrilled and honored that the people of the 13th Legislative District did not pay attention to the outright lies made by the police unions, of which my Conservative opponent was the treasurer, and [the people] voted for me based upon my record of fighting for the taxpayers, working for fiscal stability and helping my constituents.”

Town of Brookhaven

Incumbent Donna Lent (R) faced Ira Costell (D) running for town clerk of the Town of Brookhaven. Lent, who is serving her second term as town clerk, has managed day-to-day operations such as issuing death certificates and handicap parking permits, while land-use applications are filed within the office.

Costell has taken leadership roles in environmental causes such as the Suffolk County Watershed Protection Advisory Committee and served as chair of the county’s Pine Barrens Review Commission. He has been passionate about the fight against opioid addiction and prescription drug abuse.

Lent won her seat with 54,318 votes (67.91%), while Costell had 25,642 (32.06%).

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Village

Halloween Festival draws hundreds to Stony Brook Village Center

BY HEIDI SUTTON Parking spaces were a hot commodity at the Ward Melville Heritage Organization’s 31st annual Halloween Festival on Oct. 29.

The spooktacular event, which took place at the picturesque Stony Brook Village Center, attracted hundreds of families who spent the afternoon trick-or-treating at the many shops and restaurants, playing games, and dancing to the Monster Mash, courtesy of WALK 97.5.

One of the highlights of the festival was a Halloween parade throughout the center led by the 12-foot-tall Monster Merlin who took photos with visitors throughout the day. The winners of the annual Scarecrow Competition were also announced. (See winners and more photos on page B5.)

“It’s so wonderful to see everybody together again,” said Gloria Rocchio, WMHO president.

The fun event was sponsored by Suffolk Center for Speech and Myofunctional Therapy, the RJG Consulting Group, Dr. Robert Quilty and Gold Fish Swim School.

Up next for the WMHO is its 42nd annual Holiday Festival on Dec. 5 and the annual Holiday Tree Competition from Dec. 5 to 20.

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Local doctors welcome imminent COVID-19 vaccination for younger children ‘We definitely saw more cases [of COVID-19] in children after school started this year.’

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Local health care providers were eager to start administering doses of COVID-19 vaccines to children who are 5 to 11 years old, which they can now do after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the shots for children late Tuesday night.

“We definitely saw more cases [of COVID-19] in children after school started this year,” said Dr. Sharon Nachman, chief of —Dr. Sharon Nachman the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. “We’d like to prevent that.”

Health care providers would also like reduction in the current restrictions designed to stop household transmission, in which to protect the health of students and their a member of a home spreads the virus to educators. everyone else with whom that person lives.

“It’s too soon to say the next steps,” “Children usually get milder forms of Nachman said, which could include learning COVID, but they can transmit disease to without masks. Further information about people around them,” Dr. Adrian Popp, chair the spread of the virus after vaccinations of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention approved the COVID-19 vaccine for children 5 to 11 years old. Stock photo would inform future guidelines. explained in an email. “It is not unusual Popp added that booster needs for children for children to bring COVID in the home if they were to get COVID-19, would have would be for them, Nachman said. in the future is also unknown. and then household members to be exposed increased risk of poor outcomes,” Nachman Down the road, vaccinating a classroom of “Data will be gathered and [officials] will and get COVID, especially if they are said. “They should be prioritized. Waiting to children in this age category could lead to a see if this will become necessary,” Popp said. unvaccinated and immunocompromised.” get COVID is not a good idea.”

In considering whether parents should get The same holds true for children with shots for their children, doctors urged parents asthma, who could develop more problematic to speak with their family pediatricians. symptoms from contracting the virus, “They are the experts in Nachman said. your child’s care,” Nachman While the doses for said. “They’ll have the most children will be lower, the insight into who your kid is.” immune system of younger Pfizer BioNTech said the people is more reactive than vaccines, which were a third of that for adults, which is why the dose of an adult shot, were pharmaceutical companies over 90% effective against tested a lower dose in their symptomatic COVID-19. clinical trials.

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Among her myriad of talents, she made dolls and doll houses, was a master of gingerbread architecture, painter, chocolatier of Easter bunnies and Halloween costume designer. She stopped at nothing for her family, especially her children, and did so with great joy and resolution.

In 1962, Ottilie attained her Bachelor of Arts degree in home Eeconomics (cum laude), and in 1969, received her master’s degree in education from Adelphi University.

She taught home economics on Long Island for 15 years. In 1988, Ottilie and Henry bought the Wachapreague Marina and a opened a restaurant in the Little City by the Sea in. Virginia. Over the next 19 years, “Henry’s,” as referred to by locals, faithfully served fisherman, ESVA residents, and passersby with a meal they wouldn’t soon forget — one that was perfectly “crafted” and approved by Ottilie. Though retired from teaching, education remained a priority in her life, serving as director of tutoring with the Eastern Shore Literacy Council.

She loved spending time outdoors, often birdwatching and enjoying her vegetable and ornamental gardens. She was a kind, gentle, thoughtful and compassionate person, who adored all children and always showed empathy toward others.

In addition to her husband of 58 years, she leaves to cherish her memory, five children and their spouses, Ottilie and Chad Austin; Henry Fabricatore and Jenny Andersson; Mary Fabricatore; James Fabricatore and Mara Dovis; and Libby Fabricatore and Joe McLauglin; sisters Marie Osburn and Trudy Delmore and husband, Jack; brother Charles Krebs and wife, Barbara; six grandchildren Jessica and Robert Redley; Seth Austin; George and Sarah Fabricatore; Branimir and Marco Fabricatore; three great-grandchildren Archer, Robert and Ella Redley; and many nieces and nephews. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister Margaret Krebs.

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Mood disorders, such as depression, can exacerbate COVID-19 and vice versa.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month added mental health conditions like mood disorders to the list of preexisting conditions that could put people at higher risk for the worst symptoms of COVID-19.

People with mood disorders join those with physical conditions, such as coronary artery disease, chronic lung disease and diabetes for populations especially vulnerable to the virus.

“Individuals with mood disorders may be at greater risk for COVID-19 because of a confluence of factors known to increase the risk in the general population,” Dr. Gregson Pigott, commissioner of the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, wrote in an email. “Persons with mood disorders are differentially affected by non-communicable diseases such as obesity and cardiovascular disease, which are known to increase the risk of COVID.” Pigott added that social determinants of risk are also more prevalent in people with mood disorders, which could include economic insecurity, insufficient access to primary preventive health care, and lower health literacy.

Some people with mood disorders live in community settings, such as psychiatric inpatient units and homeless shelters, where the risks of the spread of COVID-19 is higher because of the difficulty in socially distancing in quarantining, Pigott added.

While the initial list of underlying conditions that might make COVID-19 worse dealt with physical health problems, more recent studies have addressed the link between mental health and COVID-19 symptoms and outcomes.

“JAMA Psychiatry published a systematic review article and meta-analysis that found an association between preexisting mood disorders and COVID-19 outcomes” that suggest a higher risk of hospitalization and death for this group, Dr. Adrian Popp, chair of Infection Control at Huntington Hospital, explained in an email.

Pigott added that the group of people with mood disorders has likely increased during the pandemic, as concerns about health, economic viability, childcare and education can create an overwhelming combination of stressors.

“Research suggests that chronic stress can

lead to or exacerbate mood disorders such as depression and anxiety, bipolar disorder, cognitive (thinking) problems, personality changes, and problem behaviors,” Pigott said.

Prolonged exposure to illnesses, changes in financial status, socialization patterns and the grieving process are “recognized antecedents to symptoms attributed to mood disorder onset.”

Brain inflammation

The brain reacts to COVID-19 and to some types of mood disorders similarly, making the combination of the two potentially more problematic.

“There’s a lot of evidence that suggests that one type of depression may arise because of inflammation in the brain,” Dr. Christine DeLorenzo, professor of Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering, at Stony Brook University. “It turns out that COVID-19 may also induce brain inflammation, which may exacerbate current depression or even bring about new depression onset.”

DeLorenzo also cited several studies that showed that people infected with COVID-19 have demonstrated higher levels of depression.

“There have been four or five studies that have looked at [inflammation and depression] and in all of the studies, on average, inflammation was higher in people with a major depressive disorder,” DeLorenzo said.

The guidelines for underlying medical conditions that might make COVID-19 worse started with physical conditions and, only recently, added mental health challenges.

While people discuss mental health issues more than they did a decade ago, “we still have a ways to go” in recognizing the importance of diagnosing and treating mental health disorders as actively as physical struggles, DeLorenzo said.

In her research, DeLorenzo has explored whether an anti-inflammatory treatment may be helpful in certain people with depression.

This treatment might also help manage the symptoms of COVID-19.

In terms of receiving vaccinations or boosters for COVID-19, health care professionals and officials suggested that residents only need to indicate that they have a defined underlying condition to receive a shot.

“People with underlying conditions have not needed to validate this to get the vaccine,” DeLorenzo explained. “Depression is a significant and devastating illness and should be treated the same way” as physical preconditions.

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Letters to the Editor What’s wrong with today’s politics

Rich Schaffer, head of the Suffolk County Democratic Committee, congratulates Errol Toulon Jr. on his win. Photo by Rita J. Egan

Congrats and concerns

Tuesday was a busy night where candidates across Long Island came together to wait for the 2021 election results.

TBR News Media spent the last month interviewing local officials and their opponents on the ballots, listening and reporting on what they can bring to the table if reelected or elected.

We congratulate the winners of this year’s races, and we are looking forward to working alongside them.

But there is one thing that concerned us as our reporters waited to hear the announcements of both parties late Tuesday night.

Several candidates did not actively campaign this time around, including for example William Amato who ran on the Republican ticket against Errol Toulon Jr. (D) for his seat as the Suffolk County sheriff.

Toulon, who has been county sheriff since 2017, was declared winner with 141,931 votes (54.30%). Amato somehow came close with 119,357 (45.67%).

Interesting for someone who never showed his face at any debate or public outing.

It seems as though voters just went down the row for whatever party they chose. Did anyone take the time out to research which candidate would actually be there for their constituents?

We know that this speaks more of what’s going on in the nation than about the candidates themselves. We understand the political divide and we don’t blame anyone for their beliefs.

But it’s disappointing to think that someone who had no intention of actively being there throughout the campaign could have won such an important position.

Would Amato have been ready to serve if he had won those extra few thousand votes?

We encourage voters to do their part — submitting a ballot is just part of it. Read your local news, listen to debates and educate yourselves on what is going on in your community. Instead of voting for someone who may not actually be qualified, it’s important to understand who’s behind the name and what they can bring to the table.

Remember, if you don’t like your choices in a race, you don’t have to vote for anyone in that column on your ballot.

Send a message to local political committees that asks for strong candidates who are ready to serve, instead of rubber stamping someone who just happens to belong to the same party as you.

Elected officials have difficult work to do, and if someone isn’t showing up when it comes time to campaign, that’s not a good sign.

The most recent letter to the editor attacking Congressman Lee Zeldin [RNY1] by frequent letter writer Shoshana Hershkowitz [“Public health has become politicized,” Oct. 7] is a good example of what is wrong with today’s politics.

She accuses Zeldin of playing politics and yet her entire letter— as all of her quite numerous anti-Zeldin letters do — proceeds to leave out facts.

The congressman is simply calling for a more reasonable policy that respects our heroes in health care, while avoiding staffing shortages at the worst possible time. Why do progressives embrace authoritative measures so quickly against health care workers that were literally putting their own lives in danger in the beginning of the pandemic? Why is it so unthinkable for Ms. Hershkowitz to give a health care worker who has had COVID-19 and acquired natural immunity a testing option? Or why couldn’t the policy allow for workers to wear an N95 mask when dealing with patients? The supply of masks that actually stop virus particles — unlike cloth masks — has increased and these professionals are trained to properly wear them.

Why is naturally acquired immunity not embraced by progressives even though there have been numerous studies released by reputable sources, including the Cleveland Clinic, Washington University in St. Louis, a Johns Hopkins University professor and a major study out of Israel, that show it can be more effective than vaccinated immunity, and that prior COVID infection induces “robust” and “long-lived immune response”? Why do all the people that claim to “follow the science” leave out any mention of these options for health care workers? They deserve more than a lawn sign saying “thank you,” they deserve reasonable, sensible, fact-based options.

Another disturbing issue revealed in her anti-Zeldin letter is what is destroying civil discourse and politics in this country. She stated it is “a failure of leadership and of morals.” That is the problem, folks. Why can’t the discussion stay on topic regarding science and facts and reason? Is it really immoral to offer health care workers — many of whom are our neighbors that risked their lives — a safe way to keep doing their jobs?

I have not heard Republican leaders say to not get vaccinated. I am not against

vaccines. I am against people who make every issue a moral one when it is something that can be addressed fairly by making reasonable accommodations for the health care workers who most certainly earned them.

Charles Cozzolino Setauket

Candidates can now do their part

Election Day has come and gone. This reminds me of “The Outer Limits,” a 1960s television series. With the end of roundthe-clock commercials by politicians, political parties, political action groups and pay-for-play special interest groups, we now return control of the television back to you until the next election cycle.

No more candidates campaign mailings clogging mailboxes and weighing down our hardworking postal employees.

Finally, some peace and quiet.

Candidates who claimed they cared about the environment can now do their part. Winners and losers should have their paid campaign staff and volunteers pick up all the thousands of campaign signs that litter our roads and highways. They could also use leftover campaign funds to hire homeless or unemployed people to collect this litter. Let some people with community service be assigned this task. If candidates refuse to clean up after themselves, the local department of highways or public works should do the job and send candidates the bill.

Larry Penner Great Neck

The planet’s turning point

The arc of our human story has reached a turning point. Conflict/complication has risen to a place in time where we have to make a decision. How do we — as a species — feed, clothe, house, educate and supply a path to joy for every person on the planet?

By working together collectively — not as cities, states, nations, religions, races or ethnicities. By using the governmental tools we have of democracy, communism, socialism, oligarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, theocracy, colonialism, totalitarianism or military dictatorship. Or do we design a

new one for the future? If this were fiction, this point in the story would be called “The Dark Night of the Soul,” where the hero or heroine has to decide to take some action or not. However, this is not fiction but a real drama playing out daily. We are faced with problems beyond the scope and capabilities of any nation. Allied in an angry world with unhealthy people, we stare into the abyss and stumble toward the turning point. Our decision may very well decide whether we survive or become extinct. Nature will clean up the mess and start over. Perhaps one of our space probes will reach a planet somewhere in 40,000 years or so and become a source of great curiosity.

Jerry Reynolds Coram

A thank you to Dr. Schwartz

Dr. Irwin Schwartz, our sons’ longserving pediatrician, is retiring this week after practicing for over 30 years in the Three Village area.

I will always recall one incident that attests to Dr. Schwartz’s dedication, care and concern for his patients. Years ago, one of my children was admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Stony Brook Children’s Hospital. We had talked with Dr. Schwartz throughout the day, and he said he would stop by at 11 that night to check in on our son. At 10:45 I stepped outside my child’s hospital room and looked down the hall expectantly toward the elevators. As I did this, the on-duty nurse walked past, stopped, turned back and asked me, “Who are you looking for?” I replied, “My son’s pediatrician.” She gave me a kind of pitying look and said, “Look, you’re not going to see your child’s pediatrician tonight.” But then she caught herself and asked, “Who’s your pediatrician?” I answered, “Dr. Schwartz.”

Without hesitating, she replied, “He’ll be here,” and turned and walked away. Ten minutes later, Dr. Schwartz came in to check on us all.

Thank you, Dr. Schwartz, for that moment and the many more just like it. Best wishes in your well-deserved retirement.

With our deepest gratitude and respect, The Seyfert family Stony Brook

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Opinion

Nine years later, NY isn’t ready for another Sandy

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ine years ago, Superstorm Sandy came roaring through the area, causing flooding, knocking out power and disrupting work and school.

All these years later, New York is not prepared for other significant storms, despite studies suggesting that future, slow moving hurricanes with heavy rain could overwhelm infrastructure in and around Long Island.

“While we have dithered, New Orleans, Houston and other U.S. cities have gained D. None federal support for regional protection of the above strategies — which

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF will be funded with our tax dollars,” according to an information packet created by the New York New Jersey Storm Surge Working Group. “We can’t waste another decade

pursuing local responses to regional threats.”

In a ninth anniversary boat tour designed to address the challenges from a future Sandy or even a Hurricane Ida, the working group, which is chaired by School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Distinguished Professor at Stony Brook University Malcolm Bowman, outlined four messages.

First, the group suggested that coastal flooding presented a significant danger. Storm surge, sea level rise and storm water from extreme rain present an “existential threat” to the area.

Second, the group concluded that coastal flooding is a regional challenge that requires a regional solution. These scientists urge the two middle Atlantic states to consider creating a layered defense system, which they argue would be cost effective to protect property and the environment.

Third, and perhaps most damaging, the group concludes that the area is as vulnerable now as it was nine years ago in the days before Hurricane Sandy arrived. The group wrote that

“no regional costal resilience plan” is in place to protect over 1,000 miles of the New York and New Jersey metropolitan coastline.

Fourth, the changing political climate presents an opportunity to do something. The group highlighted how a new governor of New York, the start of a new term or releected governor in New Jersey, a new mayor of New York City and the restarting of the $20 million New York and New Jersey Harbor and Tributaries Focus Area Feasibility Study, or HATS, presents a “once in a lifetime opportunity to act now to address the existential threat of costal flooding with a regional coastline resilience system that meets our social justice, environmental justice, quality of life and economic development goals.”

Bowman urged New York and New Jersey residents to consider the progress other states and countries have made.

“Houston is going ahead,” Bowman said, even while New York hasn’t taken any significant steps.

Bowman said part of the challenge in creating any change that protects the area comes from

the lack of any enduring focus on a vulnerability that isn’t evident to residents on a daily basis.

“People have short memories,” Bowman said. “It’s not on their minds” even if they endured the disruption and devastation from storms like Sandy and Ida. Necessity and the lack of deep pockets in other countries is the mother of invention.

“A lot of countries can’t afford” to rebuild the way New York and New Jersey did after Hurricane Sandy,” Bowman said. “They are forced to be more careful.”

Bowman said any major project to protect the area needs a hero who can tackle the details, navigate through the politics and execute on viable ideas.

The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan had “that kind of charisma,” Bowman said. “We need somebody who everybody sees as the hero. I don’t see that person” at this point.

For New York and New Jersey, the longer time passes without any protective measures, “the more the danger will increase,” Bowman cautioned.

Connecting the dots from shots in Dallas, Vietnam and into our arms

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lections have ended and the newly elected and reelected officials are going to have to cope with a disturbing fact: people don’t trust government. This change in attitude has been a long time coming. It didn’t just happen suddenly. I know, I have lived through the change.

Trust started to fall apart with the Vietnam War. Maybe it even started earlier than that, with the assassination of President Kennedy.

I was in my early 20s then, just graduated from college, newly married, in my dream Between you and me job, looking forward to an unbounded

BY LEAH S. DUNAIEF future filled with joyful events. The nation was at peace, there was a young and vigorous president talking about making life better with civil rights legislation, women were speaking up for themselves, it was a hopeful time.

Friday afternoon, a sunny day, business lunch in a midtown Manhattan restaurant with a television on over the bar in the distance, a movie playing about a president who had been shot in the head. But wait. Wait! It wasn’t a movie, it was a news broadcast from Dallas interrupting the regular programming, it was our president, everyone standing up, crying, paying their checks, rushing back to their offices, trying to deal with the unthinkable.

How could this happen? How could Secret Service let this happen? In our country! A president, the President of the United States, could not be protected! Our bubble of safety was bursting, slowly, excruciatingly. Lee Harvey Oswald shot on television while under arrest. In what could you trust?

Who killed Kennedy? All kinds of conspiracy theories, the Warren Commission, an end but never a certainty. Was the government lying to us? Was there a cover-up?

Next came the Vietnam War. First only “advisors,” then military, then body counts, always more Viet Cong than Americans lay on the battlefields. Promises of progress and victory by the government, as casualties and

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numbers drafted rose. This even as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara privately expressed doubts of victory as early as 1966.

But President Johnson was afraid of losing the 1968 election should the United States withdraw. Instead we lost thousands of young men, all of which eventually was revealed to the public. Protests were the order of the day, and more violence, including the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert Kennedy and the chaos at the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. What’s happening to the nation’s authority figures?

We rolled right into Watergate and Nixon’s resignation. Our President accused of being a liar and a crook. What’s left to believe in? President Jimmy Carter held hostage by the Iranians, the Iran-Contra deception of Ronald Reagan’s second term, Bill Clinton making Monica Lewinsky a household name around the globe. Then the Weapons of Mass Destruction lies by the senior administration officials manipulating us into the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Whom to believe?

Whom to trust? Each lie, each governmental deception blew away more trust, leading to the climax: the disbelief in the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Even when ex-President Donald Trump urged his audience to get vaccinated on Aug. 21, in Cullman, Alabama, one of the areas struggling to cope with COVID cases and hospitalization, he was booed. “But I recommend take the vaccines,” Trump said. “I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines.” After that experience, he hasn’t again mentioned vaccination at a rally. But the reaction wasn’t partisan. They were, like Trump, all Republicans who had come to hear him, It was symptomatic of the larger distrust in government.

I was in my early teens when I received the polio vaccination. Polio was a dreaded disease by parents the world over, more so as I remember, than COVID-19. Like today, we were discouraged from assembling in groups or joining crowds. The virus attacks the brain and spinal cord, leaving paralysis and even causing death. When Jonas Salk and his colleagues created the vaccine, we all lined up to take the shot. It was the Eisenhower years. We believed our president.

Those vaccines have eliminated polio from most of the world. That’s what approved vaccinations can do.

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