LIVING AND WORKING WITH OUR NEW REALITY – COVID-19

            For most of 2020 to date, we have been coping with coronavirus - a virus that can be difficult to detect, spreads quickly, and affects humans differently.  Some people become quite ill and sadly die. Some people carry the virus with no symptoms and sadly infect others unknowingly.

In New York, we have been blessed with good leadership and good citizenship.  To date we have overcome, hopefully, the worst and are controlling the level of contagion.  We have been responsive to the precautions we have been asked to take: wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands, use hand sanitizer, disinfect surfaces, and quarantine when necessary.

In other states there has been varying degrees of compliance and varying degrees of success in slowing the spread of COVID-19.  Some states like Florida have had increasing number of deaths.

It’s very clear that compliance with COVID guidelines does make a difference.  And it will make a big difference in helping this country get back to business until a vaccine is developed, tested and produced for the global population.   Because it’s clear that all human beings must work together to do their part in protecting themselves and their neighbors if we are going to eradicate this coronavirus menace. It’s also clear that even when we lick this, we will still need to put in place guidelines that will protect us from the rapid spread of any new threat that may present itself.

So PLEASE do your part.  It’s not a matter of freedom, it’s matter of protecting yourself, your family and your neighbor!  

“ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.” Matthew 22:37-40.