If you were waiting for New York to deem barbershops and hair salons essential businesses, don’t hold your breath. Governor Andrew Cuomo appeared on The Daily Social Distancing Show With Trevor Noah on Wednesday night and shed some light on the road ahead for New Yorkers in regards to the global pandemic. Trevor Noah jumps right in and asks the governor where New York stands on the trajectory of the coronavirus.
Whenever Governor Cuomo does decide to reopen New York, don’t expect barber shops and hair salons to be the first businesses to get the green light. Cuomo is in favor of a slow rollout, with the least essential businesses opening last. “It has to be phased in,” said Cuomo when asked whether or not he’d pull a Georgia and open everything at once. “It has to be slow and building and watch that infection rate as you start to open up the valve to reopen … Basically, it’s a matrix.
Later on in the interview, Cuomo gets candid about his relationship with the president. “The relationship between myself and the president is … the president doesn’t like me. That’s the relationship. It is unambiguous. It is honest. It is open. He doesn’t like my politics,” Cuomo tells Noah. However, Cuomo says he recently had a “granular” and “detailed” conversation with the president on the subject of testing.