ONE SIMPLE STATISTIC SHOWS CUOMO IS DESTROYING NYC’S RESTAURANT INDUSTRY FOR NO REASON:

Cuomo’s decision to follow through on his threat to shut down restaurants has received enormous backlash, in part because its very basis is undercut by the governor’s own data. Restaurants and bars have driven only 1.4 percent of New York’s COVID-19 cases, according to the state’s contact tracing program. Meanwhile, private personal gatherings have driven nearly 75 percent of the state’s COVID-19 spread.

So Cuomo is shutting down an industry—crushing small businesses and putting service workers out of a job—that is only making a minuscule contribution to the spread of COVID-19. (After all, restaurants have operated at reduced capacity, required mask-wearing, heightened sanitization protocols, and more.)

Understandably, restaurateurs were infuriated by the governor’s arbitrary and baseless order.

No reason? But why does Cuomo need one? When Oliver Stone wrote Gordon Gekko’s line at the climax of Wall Street that he was wrecking Martin Sheen’s small airline company “because it’s wreckable,” it was just another moment of leftwing projection.