N.Y. bars, restaurants can now stay open until 11 p.m.: Gov. Cuomo

NY Daily News ^ | 2/14/20 | Shant Shahrigian

[Libloather]

Last call is getting a little later.

Gov. Cuomo on Sunday issued an executive order pushing the statewide curfew for bars, restaurants and other establishments with liquor licenses from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.

“Hospitalizations and the positivity rate continue to decline, and with the holiday surge now in our rear-view mirror, we must keep taking steps to further re-open the economy safely and responsibly,” he said in a Sunday statement.

The later curfew also applies to gyms and fitness centers, casinos and pool halls, his office noted.

**SNIP**

Cuomo’s new executive order comes as a growing number of Albany politicians is calling for Cuomo to lose his emergency powers.

Fourteen state Senate Democrats issued a statement Friday arguing that the sweeping pandemic powers granted to the governor last year are “no longer appropriate.”

[leaning conservative]

That’s what he’s expecting.

[Freee-dame]

The WHO changed its directives for claiming a positive test. No longer is a positive PCR test enough to say you have coronavirus. Now you need symptoms or a second positive test. Just like that, it is possible to get sick a few weeks after a positive test without having it automatically be coronavirus anymore. There will also be far fewer false positives that would have closed a school or a business. Interesting that the WHO came out with this directive on January 20.

The WHO also asked labs to reconsider the number of amplifications they are using in order to say that a test is positive. Apparently some, if not many, labs in the US have been using far too many amplifications, picking up fragments of some other virus that may have in a person’s body for a long time.

[BarbM]

How benevolent of him.

I sure hope he doesn’t expect people to be fawning all over him in gratitude for the bone he just threw them.
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I am surprised that the tough guy New Yorker has been
deballed and rolled over for this putz. I bet they
re-elect the dirt bag.
Just like the Paul Bunion types here in Minnesota. Big burly men, driving big V8 pickup trucks, and wearing a mask.

[EEGator]

Outdoor eating wouldn’t work to well here.
It’s 24 and there’s ice all over the place.

[John Milner]

“I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps (except after 11 PM)”