IndieWire: Movie theaters will remain closed indefinitely in New York state, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said on Monday, because he said cinemas are less essential and come with a higher risk of virus transmission among patrons. The decision means that, at this point, theaters in the country’s two largest markets of New York City and Los Angeles will not be open for AMC Theatres planned reopening Thursday.
Cuomo revealed his current thinking during a Monday briefing, during which he announced that gyms would be allowed to reopen August 24.
“It’s the level of risk. If you look at our metrics, we started with the most essential business that posed the least risk. And then it was the gradation to the least essential businesses that posed the most risk,” Cuomo said, according to Deadline.
He continued: “I am sure there is a whole group of people who say, ‘I cannot live without going to the movies.’ But on a relative risk scale, a movie theater is less essential and poses a high risk. It is congregant. It is one ventilation system. You are seated there for a long period of time … Even if you are at 50-percent capacity with one or two seats between the two of you, this is a risk situation and… movie theaters are not that high on the list of essentials.” more
Sick seniors, please report to the Covid cultivation camps.
If they were showing movies about Che and Lil’ Barry, exceptions would be made.
This Twitter thread, and NY’s currently consistent low numbers despite plenty of socializing, suggests that everything should just be open and that there will be very little difference. Open up already! It could be argued that other states should be more careful (not really of course), but NY is over it and should open up.
https://twitter.com/yinonw/status/1295152579941249024
Nowhere to go here, nothing to see here, nothing to do here, don’t walk the streets after dark or trip over the garbage… Welcome to New York, quarantine and Enjoy!
When the rats take over the city Cuomo will be just another meal.
Good.
All the movies are unwatchable “Social Justice” bullshit anyway, where trannies vie with homos for the attentions of the Person Of Color lead while White people are forever villians, idiots, or sex slaves to the New World Order as it glorifies a Wakandian never-never land even as it denegrates the greatest, most TRULY just nation EVER founded.
I HOPE the movie theatres, mostly owned by Communist in China and out of it, die.
And take all the terrorist-funding, deviant-celebrating, America-hating fatuous, smug, FAR over-rewarded “movie stars” WITH them.
I agree with SNS. Movies, in general, for the last 10+ years have been garbage. I do have a problem with Herr Cuomo and any politician dictating what I can do.