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Too many wars

June Donohue - Columnist
Posted 6/4/20

One war is the one against COVID-19 which is hitting a little close to home. As I mentioned before, the niece of a dear friend of mine had it and has fully recovered.

My friend who had been …

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One war is the one against COVID-19 which is hitting a little close to home. As I mentioned before, the niece of a dear friend of mine had it and has fully recovered.

My friend who had been exposed, while waiting to be tested, after a month realized she would have gotten symptoms by then so no longer pushed for the test. A member of my church who was 79 and lived in a nursing home facility died from it. My son Michael has a friend who is a nurse and contracted the virus and recovered because she was fairly young and had no health issues.

Another friend of his also had it and recovered but lost her brother, her father and her grandmother all within two weeks. Leisha, who assured me that it would be okay for her to enter my house during the pandemic, as long as she washed her hands frequently, and had no symptoms.

She did so twice, once at the end of February and once at the beginning of March, before I told her not to come anymore. Just because she was in denial or misinformed didn't mean I had to be. At the beginning of February Leisha had what she thought to be the flu and went to the doctors and tested negative for the flu.

A new friend, who is a nurse, recently told her she should be tested now to see if she had had it back then. Leisha did and found out she has antibodies in her blood so she was either exposed to or had the virus. Leisha cares for my granddaughter who has a low immune system and could even die from the disease. Too close for comfort.

And now we have the George Floyd very sad and tragic incident which has turned some parts of cities into a war zone. Peaceful demonstrations have been pushed aside. The Martin Luther King Committee of which I am an active member is doing a Zoom contact at 7 p.m. tonight and an actual meeting on Monday night at the Teaneck Town Hall. I will be attending both.

The town hall is large enough to practice social distancing and, of course, we will be wearing masks. We are meeting to decide what the most effective course of action should be. Another fight but in the right direction.

To a MILD degree, I feel what it must have been like for my friend Yvonne Jones to live in Berlin as a child during World War II. Running to air raid shelters and having bombs exploding right next to her in the street, destroying buildings and losing friends. There wasn't always shelters available then nor for us now.

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