Andrew’s War on Fun

No dancing at bars. No darts. No karaoke. So orders Gov. Cuomo, adding to his “order food, not just alcohol” mandate in what sure looks like an all-out war on fun.

Heck, the Great Drinktator has also banned comedy shows. You can’t have people guffawing into their face masks despite practicing social-distancing.

The gov has even used his emergency powers to ban dancing at wedding receptions. This, when New York hasn’t just flattened the curve, but crushed it — with new coronavirus cases and deaths at ever-lower levels.

As Karol Markowicz writes in Monday’s Post, these lockdown rules are “nutty.”

Eminently progressive state Sen. Jessica Ramos (D-Queens) reports that Cuomo’s State Liquor Authority agents have been harassing bar and restaurant owners in her district with summonses and the loss of liquor licenses under the gov’s “Three Strikes and You’re Closed” policy.

Cuomo’s rules are almost as deadly to businesses as the bug he says he’s fighting.

Andrew Rigie, head of the NYC Hospitality Alliance, says an industry survey found that 83 percent of dining establishments couldn’t pay their full rent last month.

Mayor de Blasio, meanwhile, told WNYC he has “no plan” for the return of indoor dining in the city, since the bug resurged somewhat in Hong Kong and Europe after indoor dining resumed.

Is it any wonder that 100 restaurants in Brooklyn and Staten Island plan a class-action lawsuit to force the mayor and the gov to let their eateries reopen?

Give it a shot: Businesses will work to ensure that patrons practice safe dining and obey health protocols. If the curve bends too far up, you can always lock down again.

We join Markowicz in saying “Enough!” Give us back our city.