Las Vegas is a ghost town and for good reason. Whether you are touching slot machines or sitting at blackjack tables, casinos are ripe for germs. With that in mind, you would think the city would have a clear and very well-thought-out plan to re-open. But, according to the Las Vegas mayor, that’s not the case. Mayor Carolyn Goodman is calling for businesses to start running again. That includes casinos, sporting events, shows and restaurants. She told CNN’s Anderson Cooper “I’d love everything open… I want everything back.” Instead of having guidelines for how businesses should operate in this new world though, Goodman says that onus would be on the private businesses and patrons:
It’s a responsibility of each one of us as a human being of us civilized world to and part of the sick. We don’t do know when we’re things to people bad ever. This is a city that’s built itself because of the ingenuity and creativity and passion that people have here to work and live the American Dream and that’s who we are and we have proven we’ve been very successful. So all your questions are but I’m not off my call, please let us open the city of Las Vegas, let’s get back to business.
Anderson then challenged her on how infectious coronavirus can be.
And as if the interview wasn’t already bizarre enough, Goodman then said she wanted the city to be a test case for others.
“I offered to be a control group and I was told by our statistician you can’t do that because people from all parts of Southern Nevada come in to work in the city and I said that’s too bad because I know when you have a disease you have a placebo that gets the water and sugar and then you have those that get the shot. We would love to be that placebo side so you have something to measure against.”
