Food deliveries to first responders

have discovered in the past few weeks that watching the news might best be something taken in small measures. Whether delivered via the internet, the television or in print, the news these days is almost uniformly a chorus of despair and fear — death tolls climbing, infection rates soaring, ventilators and protective equipment insufficient, first responders overworked and hyper-vulnerable to the coronavirus themselves. Like so many others, Nathan Schweid, a youthful member of the Denver Jewish community, found himself vulnerable to the strangely addictive — and not necessarily good — habit of indulging in too much bad news. “I was finding myself becoming obsessed with the news,” he told the Intermountain Jewish News last week, adding that he found the saturation coverage overwhelming and discouraging. […]