So many people have signed our petition:  almost 150 so far!  We would love to get more.  If you haven't already, please share our link on additional platforms, groups, networks personal and professional.  Let's push the word out.  I think we have a very powerful message!

Also, if you haven't already, I think it will make a big impact to contact Hiram Chodosh and Coreen Rodgers directly by email.  Repeat our messages, tell your own story.

Over the past several days, working on this issue, my thoughts have developed, and it is now clear to me that shuttering the TCS has pretty deep moral implications.  Here is a excerpt from my recent email to Hiram and Coreen:

"It is immoral and reprehensible for the owners of an institution with an 80-year history of providing an essential service in a custom-made space to close down in a crisis situation when it is needed the most.  I don’t think it is too hyperbolic to say this is not dissimilar from a small but excellent hospital shutting down today because:  they don’t know how to treat COVID, they can’t make any money by treating COVID, they don’t have the time or resources to treat COVID, they don’t want the liability of treating COVID.

It is, at the most generous interpretation, obtuse to think that this is somehow excused by your “dedication” to pass your users of this service onto the other institutions in the area that offer this service, and are planning to operate.  And it is simply not cogent to contend that one of this nation’s top intellectual powerhouses, which specializes in public policy, does not have the capability to make a plan for operating.