National clinical director Jason Leitch has responded to Dave Cormack after the Aberdeen chairman's plea to open Pittodrie's gates.
The Dons have had a number of requests for test events knocked back, despite the Granite City being placed in Level 2 of the Scottish Government's restrictions.
That means cinemas can be open for indoor gatherings but, despite spending £30,000 on protocols, Aberdeen cannot host matches.
Epidemiologist Professor Gary Macfarlane believes that up to 2,000 fans attending Pittodrie would represent a low Covid risk but Scotland's clinical director insists comparing football to movie theatres is not valid.
Leitch said on BBC Radio Scotland: "Because there are choices that have been made in Scotland vs other countries.
"Let's think for a moment about what it takes to run a cinema.
"Cinemas are only open in Levels 1 and 2, you don't need 100 people to open them as you would with a stadium.
"That's not an accurate number but you need a lot of people to open a stadium.
"If you bring in fans, you need an awful lot more people. In the early days when we were talking to rugby and football about what it takes to run a test event at Murrayfield or somewhere, it was into the hundreds before you had a fan.
"A cinema doesn't need that.
"It's not an exact science. I hate the idea of playing off one sector against another.
"Cinemas, very distanced, not many people in the cinema. You might have 20 people in a 100 seater cinema rather than hundreds of people.
"We want stadia to be open. I sometimes think every sector thinks we're keeping them closed because we don't like them.
"I promise you that's not true.
"I want football crowds back but I want them at a point in time in the pandemic when it is absolutely safe for that to happen.
"With the travel around it, the stewarding required and everything else that goes on around a stadium."
