I’m a New Yorker, Governor Hochul

Dear Governor Hochul,

There’s no pretending that we have a lot of political common ground. I think you’re pretty weird , in fact. A lot of it has to do with Covid-19. It was wrong of you, in my view, to wait until this week to end the mask mandate on public transport. It was wrong to fire nurses who had already survived Covid-19 for their failure to get a vaccine. It was wrong to keep schoolchildren in masks for nearly two whole school years. I found it creepy when you told a church in Brooklyn that you needed them to be “your apostles,” and you flashed your necklace that said “Vaxxed.” I don’t go around wearing necklaces saying “Antacid.”

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Michael Brendan Dougherty

Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review Online.

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Kathy Hochul

Dear Governor Hochul,

There’s no pretending that we have a lot of political common ground. I think you’re pretty weird , in fact. A lot of it has to do with Covid-19. It was wrong of you, in my view, to wait until this week to end the mask mandate on public transport. It was wrong to fire nurses who had already survived Covid-19 for their failure to get a vaccine. It was wrong to keep schoolchildren in masks for nearly two whole school years. I found it creepy when you told a church in Brooklyn that you needed them to be “your apostles,” and you flashed your necklace that said “Vaxxed.” I don’t go around wearing necklaces saying “Antacid.”