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In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Long Island center of Shrimad Rajchandra Love and Care USA (SRLC) donated 2,000 protective masks and 150 personal hygiene kits to the Huntington Station community May 30. The items will be distributed by St. Hugh of Lincoln R.C. Church.

The event was attended by Town of Huntington Supervisor Chad Lupinacci (R), Pastor Robert Smith of St.

Hugh’s Church and Dan Diviney of Project Hope.

In support of the frontline heroes in the township, SRLC had previously donated thousands of protective masks to local nursing homes and first responders, as well as provided meals and snacks. They also donated 53,000 pounds of food to those in need through Community Solidarity. Prior events were attended by Town of Huntington Councilman

Mark Cuthbertson (D) and Town Clerk Andrew Raia (R).

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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 Garguilo said.

On 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 a few 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 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.

In Suffolk so far, the only arrests were of 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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SBU’s Kaushansky Talks Possibilty 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 said Stony Brook University —Kenneth 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. Additionally, it’s

‘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

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 surgery 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.

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Huntington Protesters Continue to March, Protest Floyd Killing

BY DAVID LUCES DLUCES@TBRNEWSMEDIA.COM On June 4, for the third time last week, close to a hundred protesters marched into downtown Huntington to protest the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, racism and police brutality.

The group convened at the Big H parking lot at Home Depot and then made its way into the village and down New York Avenue.

More peaceful protests have been held in other parts of Huntington and have been continuing on a regular basis.

— Photos by David Luces

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Local Tick Expert Shares Advice as Residents Begin to Venture Outdoors Many Illnesses Carried by Ticks Share Symptoms with COVID-19 With summer close by and as New York State continues to relax shutdown restrictions, residents will naturally want to get some fresh air. But while open spaces like parks and nature preserves provide a temporary reprieve from the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also home to ticks. These arachnids can carry Lyme disease and other serious tick-borne illnesses. Experts say this is the time when ticks are most active and when their numbers increase.

“We have already passed a month of tick activity here on Long Island,” said Jorge Benach, distinguished Toll professor of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology and Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University. “With minimal contact because people were staying indoors due to the pandemic, we have seen less cases.”

Benach said that could change in the coming summer months, especially with an already large tick count this year. Currently, we are entering the second phase of tick season, which is when the arachnids are in the nymph stage and are harder to spot.

“For some reason Long Island has a heavy population of ticks,” Benach said. “It has the perfect environment for them and they really thrive.”

Three species of ticks call Long Island home. The deer tick can carry Lyme disease, anaplasmosis and other illnesses, while American dog tick can carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The lone star tick can transmit tularemia and ehrlichiosis.

“The lone star tick, we believe, is the most aggressive of the three species, and we didn’t know it existed until 1980,” the distinguished

professor said. “And then it somehow found its way to Long Island.”

A 2019 study, headed by Benach and Rafal Tokarz, assistant professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, with co-authors from SBU and Columbia, found prevalence of multiple agents capable of causing human disease that are present in three species of ticks in Long Island.

Another concern this season is that tick-borne illnesses like Lyme disease and anaplasmosis have symptoms that LEGALS con’t on pg.

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“It is true that they have overlap in the initial symptoms, but once you get past that first stage it should be easier to diagnose if that person has a tick-borne illness,” Benach said.

Tick-borne diseases are usually treated with antibiotics. The effects range from mild symptoms that can be treated at home to severe infections that if left untreated can lead to death in rare cases.

The distinguished professor stressed the need for people to be aware of ticks when they are in certain areas outdoors.

Repellents and wearing long-sleeve pants and shirts can be good deterrents for ticks.

Other tips include walking along the center of trails, washing and drying clothing when you come home and keeping pets from areas that could be tick infested.

Benach said there is a misconception that humans get ticks from dogs. Instead, it is more likely one gets a tick from being in the same space as your dog.

“You should be checking yourself, and if you spot a tick get it off as soon as possible,” he said. “If you develop any symptoms or illness contact your doctor.”

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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.

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• 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 Huntington 3/4 Meetings are being livestreamed Video and documents are available after meeting Meeting agenda available before meeting Public are allowed public comment only during public hearings Village of Asharoken 4/4 Meetings are being livestreamed via Zoom Meeting minutes/agendas available after meeting Meeting agendas are available after meeting but not video Agenda available before meeting Residents can ask questions prior to or during meeting Village of Lloyd Harbor 4/4 Residents can listen in to meetings Notices are present prior to meeting Meeting agendas are available after meeting Residents have been told they can comment during meeting Village of Northport 4/4 Meetings are being held over teleconference call Meeting audio not posted online after meeting Agendas posted to website prior to meeting Website says residents can ask questions of board via the web page Commack School District 4/4 Meetings are publicly streamed through the district website Meeting videos are available after meeting Meetings documents are available prior to meeting via BoardDocs Members of the district can ask questions via email, Elwood School District 4/4 Meeting videos streamed live to YouTube Meeting agendas available via BoardDocs Videos are available after meetings Questions are answered during latter section of meeting Huntington School District 4/4 Meeting videos streamed live via Zoom call Meeting video is available on the district website Meeting agendas are available via BoardDocs Residents can ask questions during Zoom meetings Harborfields School District 4/4 The district livestreamed meetings via Vimeo Agenda is available prior to meeting on district website Video is available after the meeting dates Residents can ask questions via email, and questions are answered at a determined time in the meeting Northport-East Northport School District 4/4 Meetings are being livestreamed via IPCamLive Videos are available after meetings Agendas are available beforehand via BoardDocs Questions can be sent via email and addressed during meeting

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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.

Ninety nine 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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Editorial

Letters to the Editor

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.

Mario Mattera, (“Long Islanders Working Together,” June 4), named by the Suffolk County Republican leadership as candidate for New York State Senate District 2, follows the Trumpist playbook’s standard selfserving lie that it is “without a doubt no one’s fault” that hard-hit states like New York ran short of PPE and hospital space at the height of their COVID-19 pandemic. I am sick and tired of repeating this but, no, Mr. Mattera, it’s the fault of your idol President Trump [R]. Warned as early as mid-January, as was South Korea and the World Health Organization, he failed utterly to do what every national leader who successfully limited the spread of COVID-19 had done: Use national funds to get PPE and test kits, mobilize health resources to areas the tests indicated and institute “social distancing.” Instead, he first called it a “Democrat hoax to spook the (stock) market,” and then repeatedly claimed

Protests on LI Remain Civil It’s the Fault of Your Idol Donald Trump that the problem was minor and would disappear “soon.” As of June 9, 113,000 Americans have died!

As far as “working together” is concerned, while ordinary people have certainly risen to the occasion, Republicans have always put their probig corporation agenda first. President Trump [R] told Democratic governors — who can’t run deficits — to go find their own medical supplies to buy; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R] told the now cashstrapped states to go bankrupt — that is, to start cutting budgets left and right, firing teachers and other civil servants.

The $3 trillion stimulus that McConnell blackmailed Democrats into gives way too much to well-connected corporations — some were shamed into givebacks — with mom-and-pops getting crumbs, and state and local governments and the Post Office (!) out in the cold. It still doesn’t provide for government-funded PPE, mass testing

or mandatory safety standards: Trump wants businesses running in November if it kills us.

I also have a problem with anything (e.g., Long Island) “first”: We’re supposed to be one nation, and the song isn’t “Solidarity for Never,” but which government is supposed to make “smart” investments in infrastructure and manufacturing? What agency will determine what the next crisis might require? The state won’t have the money unless Washington changes. The Trump government hasn’t lifted a finger on infrastructure for three-and-a-half years, and corporations still prefer buying dirtcheap factory workers overseas.

Finally, Trump’s response to George Floyd’s murder shows, as Gen. James Mattis forcefully stated, that the greatest obstacle to “working together” is Trump. Who’re you kidding, Mr. Mattera?

Arnold Wishnia Setauket

Zeldin Deflects With a Partisan, Political Attack Rep. Lee Zeldin [R-NY1] must have a lot of time on his hands. Over 110,000 Americans are dead from COVID-19 and the toll is continuing to rise. Forty million jobs were lost in a matter of weeks. There is widespread mass protest throughout the country about long-standing racial injustice, triggered by the horrific killing of George Floyd, the latest in a long succession of racially tinged killings. But apparently Zeldin’s big concern is that members of Congress should not temporarily be allowed to vote remotely for health and safety reasons.

Rather than addressing the real issues that are facing this district and this country, Zeldin deflects with a partisan, political attack. Earth to Zeldin: Nobody really cares about the mechanics of how representatives vote!

Particularly during a deadly pandemic which has caused untold suffering, sickness and death. Particularly during a national crisis on race relations,

when how to achieve the constitutional mandates of a more perfect union, and equal protection of the laws is a burning issue.

As usual, Zeldin makes misleading claims in his zeal for political attack.

Although it’s hard to tell from the deceptive wording in his letter to this newspaper June 4, each member of Congress still determines his or her own vote when voting by proxy. As for his insistence that representatives should not get paid without traveling to Washington, D.C., which incidentally remains one of the worst COVID-19 hotspots in the country, I wonder if he’d like to apply that standard to everyone currently being paid while working remotely because of the coronavirus?

Instead of spending his time writing letters about a petty issue which has zero impact on the lives of the people in his district, why doesn’t Zeldin write a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell [R] about the urgent

necessity of federal help for states and localities, something which has a huge impact on all of us? If he’s so concerned about grocery store workers, truckers and farmers, why doesn’t he speak out about McConnell’s effort to strip workers of liability protection from companies that force them to risk their lives working in unsafe conditions? If he’s so concerned about the Constitution why doesn’t he write a letter to his hero, President Trump [R], who sees nothing wrong with directing federal forces to gas and terrorize peaceful protesters exercising their constitutional rights just so he can have what former Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis termed “a bizarre photo op”?

It’s sad that Zeldin can find nothing better to do in this time of crisis and horror than weaponize an inconsequential issue to beat up on his political opponents.

David Friedman St. James

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

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Opinion

The Awkward Beginning to the Retail Restart

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i, welcome to my store. It’s so good to see you after all these years. It hasn’t been years, I know, but it just feels like it because I’ve been a prisoner at home with my teenage children who have decided they are allergic to cooking, cleaning or almost anything else that has to do with helping around the house.

But, hey, this isn’t about me, it’s about you. You’re looking well, thank goodness.

That’s the most D. None important thing, right? of the above This virus has been so

BY DANIEL DUNAIEF hard on everyone, but I promised I wouldn’t say anything about the virus today.

Anyway, we have decided to move to a high touch environment because we can only have two people in our store at a time and one of them is me, which means you’ll have to leave the child you’re carrying in the stroller outside.

You don’t have a stroller? No problem. I have a disinfected stroller just for this occasion that I can bring out from the back for you. In fact, I’m happy to sell it to you at a bargain price because I haven’t sold much of anything these days. I tried selling food to my teenage kids, but they just said I was a terrible cook, they weren’t hungry or they would be in their rooms and I shouldn’t bother them until 2021.

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

Silly me, I’m talking about myself. And, whoops, I see from your frown that you’re not happy I touched your shoulder when I made that joke. I have to make sure I socially distance. In fact, I have this new touch-theshoulder-in-a-joking-way stick that’s exactly

six feet long which I would also be happy to sell to you. I know it looks like two yard sticks taped together, which it kind of is, but it guarantees that you’ll be six feet away from everyone else.

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.

Oh, you want new ones? Well, that may take a while because our shipment is in quarantine.

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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