Let’s talk about nursing homes.
No one really wants to go to a nursing home. Loving children place their parents there only because they have to.
Visiting a loved one in a nursing home is never a pleasant experience; at least, that was what I remember. People don’t leave nursing homes — they eventually go into hospitals or hospice.
This generation of nursing home occupants has faced many horrors during their lifetime. This pandemic was just one more. Our cherished mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles, were the most targeted by this virus, but they would want their children to survive and have a full life.
That is why Governor Andrew Cuomo acted as he did. The numbers during this period should not matter.
Whatever Cuomo did or didn’t do, he acted in good faith within the situation that presented itself. He wasn’t elected to be Solomon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was calling all the shots, and he had to go with the science. So when they were predicting 140,000 hospital beds, and Elmhurst Hospital was overflowing like Italy, he made the proper choices without concern for how he would later be evaluated.
Now, those who weren’t affected cry for his removal from office.
I am offended by those who stand self-righteous on the sidelines and open their mouths to take apart the person who’s been on the front line every day. We can investigate the other issues related to the governor. We are just coming out of a toxic environment during Trump and the pandemic; if you don’t like your boss, quit.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, please keep your mouth shut — due process.
Jerry Rosengarten
Southampton Village
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