"St. Patrick’s is obviously the extraordinary outlier both in concentration and density,” the governor said. “Look, you don’t want to shut down society, right. Because that’s massively disruptive to the economy, life, etc. But your main concern here is the public health crisis, and it’s balancing the two. I’m going to be speaking to the parade organizers and the people who are involved and see what they say. New York City you have a fairly high density of cases. It’s a cluster of cases and it’s a huge parade.”