Even days later I still cannot make heads or tails of Andrew Cuomo's latest indoor dining ban in NYC. It just makes no sense. I don't even see articles online defending it. It has no justification in the data or the science or anything. The cost of the indoor dining ban is going to exceed any benefit by a factor of 10,000, and in fact may cause more infections as people are not allowed to go to places that have few spread and will instead go to places with massive spread.
Whatever his motivations were, it had nothing to do with stopping infections. But stepping back from whether or not it makes sense, would anyone have said, on January 1, 2020, that the governor has the unilateral, total, and absolute authority to close all restaurants any time he wants? This is insanity. The fact that indoor dining had few cases shows that people who chose to go, did it prudently, and in fact, from my observation, not many people did. I only ate indoors once or twice the past few months. But why does the governor have such total power over our lives? This is not freedom in any sense of the word. No king or emperor ever had or exercised this sort of power.