Pro wrestling 'essential' under Florida governor's order
Source: Associated Press
Mike Schneider, Associated Press Updated 5:58 pm CDT, Tuesday, April 14, 2020
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) Body slams and pile drives can go on in the Sunshine State.
With Florida under a lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, there's one business deemed essential by Florida's governor that is raising some eyebrows: pro wrestling.
Florida's top emergency official last week amended Gov. Ron DeSantis' stay-at-home order which was issued at the start of the month. Pro sports were added to a list of essential businesses allowed to stay open in an April 9 memorandum to include employees at a professional sports and media production with a national audience ... only if the location is closed to the general public.
The amendment allows World Wrestling Entertainment, run by CEO Vince McMahon in metro Orlando, to continue putting on shows without fans.
Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Pro-wrestling-essential-under-Florida-15200327.php
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(49,034 posts)Aristus
(66,449 posts)just be a wide place in the road?
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)RockRaven
(14,990 posts)to DeFuckwit, anyway.
SharonAnn
(13,778 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
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(14,505 posts)ripcord
(5,516 posts)Even recreational cannabis.
sakabatou
(42,172 posts)oldsoftie
(12,587 posts)Empty facility; only the ref & wrestlers near each other. I wonder what screening they're doing? Sanitizing the ring area between matches? Maybe they're keeping everyone who is going to perform quarantined together prior to filming the matches? They have an entire facility down there, so its possible.
if they manage to go for some time with no one testing positive, we may need to look at WHATEVER it is they were doing.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,360 posts)Caligula has spoken.