My response isn’t based only on my personal experience, but those of fellow critical-care nurses working at separate facilities around the city. I want to be able to wander The Book Review in my hometown and buy a book and walk along Main Street. I don’t think our economy can continue on the way we’re going, and I unfortunately don’t know what the solution is. In 2001, Marcus published Oughtobiography – Leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, an autobiographical review of his life as an Irish Jew and as an important figure in Irish literature. On 3 June 2005, he was awarded an honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by the National University of Ireland, University College, Cork [4]. They were supposed to help our hospitals deal with surging COVID-19 caseloads and preserve limited ventilator resources. David Marcus hit a grand slam in “It Needs to End Now.” All New Yorkers need to wake up and understand we have three politicians who are idiots. If New York state and New York City take the advice of The Post and open prematurely, and if employees of New York City, visitors and residents start getting sick and dying because they did not listen to the warnings, should the city and state leaders be liable legally for those deaths? Sometimes, a good rant is all a writer can offer. New York isn’t locked down. Anyone who was inside any grocery store or subway was a transmitter. New York has lost its edge and will to fight. More people are leaving New York every year because it’s expensive to live here. Privacy Notice This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The collateral damage caused by the continued New York state lockdown (and staged reopening nonsense) is far greater than the viral threat. Columnist David Marcus says a good rant is sometimes all a writer can offer. Your California Privacy Rights However, what I do know is that our hospitals and health-care systems weren’t the least bit prepared, and the only reason it slowed down is because people underwent lockdown. Man in Trump gear booted from Southwest flight for removing mask to eat. At a steady pace, working-class New Yorkers are losing their sense of purpose in life. Even the president warned Georgia’s governor that he was reopening too soon. Last Friday morning, some 3,500 New Yorkers lined up at a Catholic church in Queens to receive free food hours before it even opened, ­according to the New York Police Department. We've received your submission. Do Not Sell My Personal Information, Your California Privacy Rights We watched in horror when Democratic governors sent infected patients into vulnerable nursing homes, causing the unnecessary deaths of thousands, in spite of the fact the president had provided the USS Comfort, the USS Mercy and hundreds of beds at the Javits Center. We all need to get back to our lives. You’ve not only spoken for the working class of New York City, but for the working class of New York state. We get it. He needs to go, along with the other two imbeciles. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have plunged tens of thousands of New Yorkers into poverty. I don’t want public officials to make political decisions that could lead to the deaths of tens of thousands more. Marcus’ rant is so factually inaccurate as to make it laughable if he did not have The Post’s front page as his soapbox. All market data delayed 20 minutes. Charles Michael Sitero, ­Ormond Beach, Fla. Marcus’ claims of our “preparedness” were insulting to read as a health-care professional. 28 talking about this. A second wave of the virus has been predicted. Instead of Gov. I had ICU patients squeezed into rooms together because there wasn’t enough space in the hospital. ICUs citywide experienced doubled to tripled patient-to-nurse ratios. Even if they were once justifiable based on limited or inaccurate information, it is now very clear that continuing this path will damage our population worse than the disease itself. All things I cannot do because they are put on hold indefinitely. Yes, they were. I heard people say goodbye to their loved ones via telephone and FaceTime. 76,731, This story has been shared 50,783 times. 29,295, © 2020 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved Thousands today are working remotely. We are all essential. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani joins Sean Hannity on 'Hannity.'. 36,584, This story has been shared 29,295 times. On a normal, prepared day pre-COVID, ICU nurses typically have one to two patients to care for, pending the patients’ severity. Those two ventilators would be fought after for any trauma, heart attack, mother who had a complicated childbirth or any potential medical crisis that happens on an average day that may require life support.