Email to the Governor

I sent a kind yet plain-spoken email to Governor Andrew Cuomo, urging him not to forget about our seniors here in the most rural counties along Lake Ontario. I told him that our Public Health Systems are overworked, and as a consequence, we cannot even get a human to answer our phone calls. That is a most disappointing state of affairs. Well, somebody in his office must have read the email because there was a reply the same day, and yesterday, I was called up to receive my first COVID shot through the hospital system in Geneva ( no, not Switzerland!) This morning, a report appears in the local paper on how all seniors with comorbidity are now eligible and will be contacted.
I like to think that my plain-speaking email had a little bit to do with this. I retired from a job at our county's Rural Health Network. Every year, I would go to Albany several times and speak with the legislators about the conditions up here- so very different than the situation in downstate or NYC. I lived and worked in a bright red county, but never mind, even the Republican officials wanted to do a good job for their constituency. Plain speaking, backed up with data usually got my point across. I am glad, my strategy still worked.