Maybe the New York Post wants to boost its sales on Staten Island. The Covidiots over there (the only borough to vote for Trump) may be fairly illiterate but they would LOVE that Cuomo photo, and want to frame it.
The Post has always been schizoid. Politically, it is conservative and slants the news that way (obviously). And yet, the paper is best known for covering juicy, if not grotesque, stories of sex and violence. Remember the "Headless Body in Topless Bar" headline?
We've seen more than the usual restlessness from Covidiots who run bars that defy the law, or mass dangerously to protest face masks and DEMAND the right to be Typhoid Marys and spread the disease to Anti-Vacc morons and others who won't get the flu shot when it's available.
Cuomo acknowledges that indoor dining does spread Covid but the percentage is not alarming. (Meaning, what, if 10 strangers sit in a pizza joint at a time, and the joint serves 100 people in the afternoon, only two will be in the hospital afterward??)
What Cuomo may be saying is why put more lives at risk when many restaurants have had the money to put up elaborate shacks on the sidewalk for outdoor dining, complete with space heaters?
Another important point is that now, the major spread is home visitation. It's parties in homes. Some reports say that up to 40% of Covid victims show no symptoms, and like Typhoid Mary, are carriers. They might show symptoms after weeks and weeks of being too close to friends and relatives, and they might skate with a mild case while someone they infect could lose their sense of smell and taste for months if not years, or have other health risks, or...die.
Indoor restaurant dining often involves entire families sitting at a table and being loud and obnoxious for an hour. "Waiter, put these two tables together there are EIGHT OF US!" And then what? There have been many cases in the news of Covid outbreaks traced to ONE idiot who came to a party, or to a wedding, or to a festive gathering in a restaurant.
Jesus Christ, this is the time to SAVE lives, not put them at risk. A Christmas Party for 8 or 12 or more family members crowded around a table at an indoor restaurant?
It's responsible to be careful, but the New York Post has never been known for restraint. Anything to sell papers and get some notoriety. All publicity is good publicity to them (including this piece). If even one life can be saved by cautious law-making, why doesn't the Post think so?
Same day in the Daily News:
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