Las Vegas mayor: Reopen casinos, let the ones with the most infections then close
Source: WaPo
Standing in front of an empty storefront along Main Street, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman was beaming with optimism, believing that businesses would make it through the coronavirus pandemic.
Were all together in this and we are going to come out with a bang, she said earlier this month.
On Tuesday, it became apparent what the independent mayor may have had in mind. She said she wants to reopen casinos, assuming that 100 percent of the population are carriers of the novel coronavirus.
Let them, and visitors, gather and gamble, smoke in confined spaces, touch slot machines all day and let the chips, and apparently the infections, fall where they may.
Assume everybody is a carrier," the mayor said Tuesday on MSNBC. "And then you start from an even slate. And tell the people what to do. And let the businesses open and competition will destroy that business if, in fact, they become evident that they have disease, theyre closed down. Its that simple.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/22/las-vegas-coronavirus-reopen/
I saw the interview...
brooklynite
(94,727 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)Grokenstein
(5,727 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)give over the money without thinking.
"The Jack Benny Program (Radio: 1932-1955)
Mugger: Your money or your life.
(long, awkward pause)
Mugger: Look bud. I said, your money or your life.
Jack: I'm thinking it over!"
MountainMama
(237 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Tea Bagger and a Ankle Bitter. Just the Mayor of Vegas,the Strip is Governed by the Clark County Board and the Board Chairman is a hard core Dem.
Goodman is pissed because the Convention and Visitor's Bureau canceled her Hubby's public relations 85k/yr contract a few weeks ago.
The Strip will be the last place to open. Noticed yesterday a E-Mail Blast from Boyd Gaming and Red Rock Resorts promoting a new game for visitors,so something is up.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,610 posts)Market to the Freedumb Coalitions!
underpants
(182,878 posts)The Mayor of Las Vegas has no authority over the strip.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)as well as the outliers where the locals go.
Blues Heron
(5,941 posts)lapfog_1
(29,223 posts)who would go to the re-opened casinos... right up until they get seriously ill and die.
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)they'll be fine
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)Yonnie3
(17,483 posts)is only a slogan!
What happens in Vegas will go elsewhere to happen too.
I want some of what she's been smoking.
gab13by13
(21,403 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)Ugly building design as I recall from a 2010 visit.
samnsara
(17,635 posts)..they will all be traveling back here to infect us all again.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)Kudos for cleverly using that slogan too!
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)Of water from far away either....until it hits the shore!
We certainly have some dumbass mother fuckers in this country!
Paladin
(28,272 posts)You're obviously Dan's sort of woman. He'll meet you at the closest Temple To Mammon location; he's bringing Tucker Carlson along to take pictures for the White House photo gallery. Enjoy!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)The stupid hurts so bad. Hell, it's deadly.
sop
(10,246 posts)It puts Trump's inanities to shame. It's too stupid even for the Onion.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Assume everybody is a carrier," the mayor said Tuesday on MSNBC. "And then you start from an even slate. And tell the people what to do. And let the businesses open and competition will destroy that business if, in fact, they become evident that they have disease, theyre closed down. Its that simple.
And she is the mayor..............can someone sue her for oh I don't know reckless endangerment............hey, mayor you are not suppose to do harm to the masses...........competition against a virus....................Place your bets........
Whens the next election......................
not fooled
(5,801 posts)libertarian thinking that says no regulation necessary because bad businesses will be sued out of existence. Of course, they conveniently fail to mention that by the time the lawsuit is filed and litigated, the damage has been done.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)and I like your avatar, she is great................
niyad
(113,552 posts)Coleman
(855 posts)1. Gambler signs a life insurance policy to be paid out to the casino if they die of COVID.
2. They will be branded on the hand to show that they have been in a casino, so they can't go into any other business for 1 month following their last visit to a casino.
3. On their first visit to a casino they will receive $10 for each hour they stay. On the next visit, $20. And so on. You are put on the sports board. People bet on which day you die. Odds change depending on how many hours you have spent in a casino.
Initech
(100,102 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)the collective, simultaneous slamming down of millions of coffin lids, as a metaphor for the finality of death, per chance?
What a fking idiot.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)is absurd.
I guess the mayor felt the need to remove all doubt that shes an idiot.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)where they know most workers and customers won't go out, they just want to stop paying unemployment for the workers.
stopbush
(24,396 posts)Bengus81
(6,932 posts)I wouldn't tell the Mayor no, but HELL NO!! If they stand strong the strip remains closed. Bow down to those death merchant money grubber Casino owners and risk your life and others.
SoCalNative
(4,613 posts)she has no say over those as they are not in the city of Las Vegas but in an unincorporated part of Clark County in a town called Paradise, Nevada.
IronLionZion
(45,528 posts)Indeed, this woman is completely bonkers. Hard to believe she and Oscar were Democrats up until 2009.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)marble falls
(57,204 posts)Or "Covid Casino and Resort - check in and you just migh "check out".
Open them but only if they stay for a month, that'll thin the herd of idiots.
Initech
(100,102 posts)sop
(10,246 posts)your entire stimulus check on diseased hookers and liquor before succumbing to the virus.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Kill them all and let God sort them out.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)Timewas
(2,196 posts)In the wording, change "infections" to "deaths" and see how sane that sounds..
lark
(23,155 posts)Let them spend a day in each casino to see personally which is safe. These asses want others to die for their profits, they aren't going out themselves in public because they know it's dangerous. They just don't give a shit if we die is the real issue for some and for others the lethality is the feature, not the bug. In either case, they are murderers.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,857 posts)As if that works except in the world of make-believe, where consumers are omniscient and can thereby determine the guilty parties with extremely limited information beyond the transactions.
The whole idea is very irresponsible, of course.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)cagefreesoylentgreen
(838 posts)The actual power lies with the Clark Country Commissioners office. She can whine and cry all she wants but shes a glorified cheerleader for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.
The CEO of Diamond Resorts blew up on her on live TV, so dont think everyones behind her.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)bluestarone
(17,030 posts)Remember they need RETHUGLICON ID's
Thekaspervote
(32,793 posts)You can check in anytime, but you can never leave. Except in a coffin!
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Polybius
(15,476 posts)lunasun
(21,646 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)in a nutshell.
IcyPeas
(21,904 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(981 posts)Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)I live in Vegas, that BS pisses me the fuck off!
Right now is totally the wrong time to even consider opening up ANY PLACE?
DUH!
3Hotdogs
(12,407 posts)BadGimp
(4,018 posts)miyazaki
(2,249 posts)Rolf, literally.
Raine
(30,540 posts)and don't come to California spreading the virus and causing us to be in quarantine forever!