In April of 2020, as the gravity of the pandemic was becoming an omnipresent reality, I wrote an opinion piece for The News praising Gov. Cuomo for keeping New Yorkers and much of the country informed in the darkest days of the COVID pandemic. It was a highly praiseworthy column, and I heard from more than a few of my progressive friends, who didn’t say it out loud, but in the gentle way friends do, that I had perhaps lost my mind.