Priorities. Life versus entertainment.
Poloncarz is struggling to contain the spread and facing a Christmas and New Year spike. Cases are already exponentially higher now than in the spring. He is a sports fan himself. Used to be a coach - hockey or soccer, I forget which. But right now he is under the stress of saving lives in the face of indifference to the dangers.
Buffalo had another crisis a few years ago in which sports fans lost perspective. When 7 to 9 feet of snow fell in 48 hours, the whole region shut down. Cuomo came in person to supervise the rescue of people trapped in cars and stranded in buses, delivering emergency medicine, getting EMTs to emergencies, getting kidney patients to dialysis treatments, etc.
In the middle of this, the Bills owner called for volunteers to clear the stadium for a game. He offered them money to use whatever means they could to get there with plows and shovels so there could be a game.
I don't remember if it was the mayor, governor, or someone else, but somebody asked people to ignore the call to the stadium and offer snowmobiles and plows for emergencies instead.
Sports are great, but they should never take precedence over lives in a crisis.
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