Someone should pay to fly this banner over the stadium.
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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Because he’s a Democrat.
You know your city sucks when the Buffalo Bills is a thing.
It’s Rich how he now suddenly cares about the six, nine, 12 months of a close down Academy, which is exactly what he has done since early/mid March of last year.
I had a restaurant refused to see me unless I gave my name and phone number for contact tracing. They would not relent so I gave them Jeff and area code-867-5309. The hostess didn’t get what I had done, but the group behind me did the exact same thing, except it was a female it actually said Jenny as their first name.
Will those attending be able to watch the game or will they be required to kneel to pay homage to Cuomo?
And, he’s got nothing to show for all the economic cost, psychological cost, emotional cost.
The over/under on the length of booing when Caesar is announced is 5 minutes.
Excellent point. NYC and NY have some of the highest percentages of deaths, cases, etc. despite all the restrictions, but places like FL, GA, TX, SD are all doing much better with far fewer deaths and much better economic outlook.
This guy is not only a moron, but a shameless moron. How could even one New Yorker NOT blush with embarrassment over having him as governor?
Meanwhile, there are still restrictions on funerals.
Good point.
Everyone must have someone they really don’t like—that should be the person who is contact traced!
(Of course the restaurant does not really care, they are just “going through the motions”.)
Total joke—kinda like the old Soviet Union—everybody pretends to comply. In public they pretend to take the latest decrees seriously. In private with friends and family they are laughing at the craziness. The more creative folks figure out new and better ways to give the middle finger to the kleptocracy .gov.
I sure do hope the good folks of New York boo Cuomo very loudly.
Someone should pay to fly this banner over the stadium.
He is only allowing 6000 people in... 80,000 should storm the gates.
A man without a conscious should never run a state let alone a dog catcher van.
How does getting a FREE TICKET to anywhere he wishes to go HELP THE ECONOMY????
He is a total gasbag.
So for a good view, give him a special chair. The electric one.
I am seriously surprised that someone who has lost parents in a nursing home or lost their business due to this fool hasn’t snapped and lost it on this guy...
So the eligible guv will be there, nipple rings and all?
It must be because, for a change, the Bills are a contender, and everyone loves a winner.
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