Posted on 01/01/2021 6:50:24 AM PST by matt04
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo intends to attend the first home playoff game by the Buffalo Bills in nearly a quarter of a century after banning in-person attendance all season.
Cuomo announced the reopening of sports events for fans on Wednesday, saying that the Bills’ playoff game would serve as an initial test of reopening his state while vaccinations remain relatively low. The governor, who has orchestrated one of the strictest lockdowns in the U.S., also said he will be attending the game with the extremely limited audience.
“It can’t be that we start 2021 with the expectation that the economy will reopen when the vaccine hits critical mass,” which experts have estimated lies somewhere between 70-90% of the population vaccinated, the governor said at a press briefing. “We can’t take six months, nine months, 12 months, of a close-down economy. We can’t take the economic cost, we can’t take the psychological cost, we can’t take the emotional cost.”
Cuomo said that the game, the first home playoff appearance for the Bills since 1996, would be a pilot test for a rapid COVID testing plan that the state will use as a guide to reopen businesses next year.
“Under the pilot, which was developed cooperatively between the Bills, New York State and Bio-Reference Laboratories, 6,700 fans will be allowed to attend the game only after first obtaining a negative COVID-19 test result. Contact tracing will also be conducted after the game,” the governor’s office said in a press release. Bills Stadium is capable of seating nearly 72,000 fans.
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Also, if everyone gets a negative CCPVirus test, why the need to contact trace after the game?
Uh, wait. I thought we had to wait until we got the vaccine until we could reopen fully? Now we have a new goal post OR he is setting up the the fact that he knows he killed NYs economy and knows thousands of business will never reopen and is looking to hide the blame.
I suspect the latter.
All it takes is 1 player to say he’s not welcome.
They oughta use his head for a football and kick it over the goalpost at 60 yards.
> he will be attending the game with the extremely limited audience <
In other words, Cuomo can go but you can’t.
Well, Prince Andrew has “got a little list...”
bet his bro goes too....and maybe fauci
Why is this guy not in prison?
Boy they aren’t even pretending that the whole thing was political. Liberals have no worries of being called out by the press. 2021 is going to be unicorns and chocolate because of Biden.
Lol. He’s not president trump. No one would dare.
The science says you can’t get covid at a football playoff game. Normal ones sure but not playoff games.
He wants the economy back so he can give Biden credit.
Duh, of course why didn’t I realize that. Always trust the science the politicians tell you to trust and never question it.
We can’t take six months, nine months, 12 months, of a close-down economy. We can’t take the economic cost, we can’t take the psychological cost, we can’t take the emotional cost
What would we do without the Gov making those kind of decisions for each and everyone one of us?
Folks calling into a buffalo radio show.
Guys in their sixties, fans since 5 year old, season ticket holder for 35 years, cannot get a ticket to the game.
and “Governor” Cuomo is going to take this guys seat????
Because he is your better, now eat your peas!
He’ll be in a box with Dom P and Wagyu beef.
He doesn’t sit where the hoi polloi sit.
When Cuomo reopened the state in the start of June he had waited till there were fewer than 1200 new positive results a day. Now he’s going to allow attendance at football when his state is seeing 10x that number per day. Is there something about the true nature of this virus he is not telling us, or is he still seeking ways to up the body count.
What an ass I hope TINA of NY sharp tongue is there to greet him
Yeah, I know, we aren't supposed to like the NFL on this site, but I do know about rooting for losing teams and I'm pretty sure I would be pissed if I was number 1 on the standby for a seat list and Cuomo got it instead.
Bad luck for the Bills when they are forced to host a vile, pathological loser like Cuomo as their “guest”. Allen will probably get hurt in the first quarter.
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