Las Vegas mayor: Reopen casinos, let the ones with the most infections then close

[demmiblue]

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.

“We’re 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, they’re closed down. It’s that simple.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/04/22/las-vegas-coronavirus-reopen/

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I saw the interview...

[brooklynite]

1. Brings gambling to a whole new level...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

6. Your money or your life? NT

[Grokenstein]

16. "Why not both? We'll take both!"

[whistler162]

58. I think even Jack Benny would

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]

61. Woo hoo!

for the Jack Benny reference.

[Wellstone ruled]

40. Goodman is just a

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]

2. Offer a Re-Opener discount package!

Market to the Freedumb Coalitions!

[underpants]

3. As was pointed out yesterday on Stephanie Ruhle's show

The Mayor of Las Vegas has no authority over the strip.

[SoCalNative]

43. No, but she does over the downtown district

as well as the outliers where the locals go.

[Blues Heron]

4. the diseased, ethics-free zone that is the republican mind c.2020 AD

[lapfog_1]

5. sadly there are probably a significant number of gambling addicts

who would go to the re-opened casinos... right up until they get seriously ill and die.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Don't tell the customers it's Russian Roulette

they'll be fine

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. No logic. The business doesn't have the virus. Their zombie CUSTOMERS do. . . . nt

[Yonnie3]

9. What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

is only a slogan!

What happens in Vegas will go elsewhere to happen too.

I want some of what she's been smoking.

[gab13by13]

10. Hmm, isn't Trump International in Vegas?

[irisblue]

51. No casino in Trump Tower LV

Ugly building design as I recall from a 2010 visit.

[samnsara]

11. is she nuts? no one who goes to vegas STAYS in vegas...

..they will all be traveling back here to infect us all again.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

38. Yes!

Kudos for cleverly using that slogan too!

[Scurrilous]

50. Heh!

[dubyadiprecession]

12. Well, a Sunami doesn't look like a huge wave...

Of water from far away either....until it hits the shore!
We certainly have some dumbass mother fuckers in this country!

[Paladin]

13. Mayor Goodman, TX Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants to have sex with you.

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]

14. So many of these posts seem like Onion Articles nowadays

The stupid hurts so bad. Hell, it's deadly.

[sop]

24. The mayor's statement is just about the stupidest thing ever uttered by a public official.

It puts Trump's inanities to shame. It's too stupid even for the Onion.

[turbinetree]

15. Place Your Bets................

“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, they’re closed down. It’s 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]

54. Sounds suspiciously like

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]

55. Straight out that play book

and I like your avatar, she is great................

[niyad]

17. This is The Onion, yes??? PLEASE tell me that this is from The Onion!!!

[Coleman]

18. They can do this

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]

19. What could go wrong?

[SheltieLover]

20. Would that "bang" she referenced be

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]

21. The idea that the heavily unionized LV casinos would agree to such a reckless plan

is absurd.

I guess the mayor felt the need to remove all doubt that she’s an idiot.

[IronLionZion]

25. Sounds like it could be as diabolical as the Georgia plan

where they know most workers and customers won't go out, they just want to stop paying unemployment for the workers.

[stopbush]

26. Yep.

[Bengus81]

31. I wonder if the media has received a statment from those LV Unions........

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]

45. It wouldn't be casinos on the strip anyway

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]

22. "It makes no sense. It makes no sense."

Indeed, this woman is completely bonkers. Hard to believe she and Oscar were Democrats up until 2009.

[secondwind]

23. The stupidity is mind-boggling........

[marble falls]

27. "From black jack and slots to Covid bingo and burial plots." New motto apparently.

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]

34. The COVID casino - you can check in, but your check out might be permanent.

[sop]

28. Apparently "Go out with a bang" means losing all your life savings at the tables then spending

your entire stimulus check on diseased hookers and liquor before succumbing to the virus.

[dhill926]

29. reading this made my brain hurt....

[packman]

30. Reminds one of the saying--

Kill them all and let God sort them out.

[Sapient Donkey]

32. Uhhh. Say what?

[Timewas]

33. Make a small change

In the wording, change "infections" to "deaths" and see how sane that sounds..

[lark]

35. Her and her family and all her administration should go first.

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]

36. Oh, so the libertarian view of markets.

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]

37. Welcome to the new (old) game of "Beat the Reaper"!

[iluvtennis]

39. She's cray cray, crazy, nuts, looney toons, stupid, dumb, etc, etc. nt

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

41. She's the mayor of downtown Las Vegas

The actual power lies with the Clark Country Commissioners office. She can whine and cry all she wants but she’s a glorified cheerleader for the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

The CEO of Diamond Resorts blew up on her on live TV, so don’t think everyone’s behind her.

[Historic NY]

42. Air conditioned petri dish

[bluestarone]

44. Open to RETHUGLICONS only for about 2 months

Remember they need RETHUGLICON ID's

[Thekaspervote]

46. For those old enough to remember the Eagles song "Hotel California."

“You can check in anytime, but you can never leave.” Except in a coffin!

[world wide wally]

47. That's a big gamble

[Polybius]

48. I see what you did there!

[lunasun]

49. May the odds be ever in your favor mayor

[qazplm135]

52. This is libertarianism

in a nutshell.

[IcyPeas]

53. Note to self: don't go to Vegas

[NameAlreadyTaken]

56. Vegas: "You pays your money, you takes your chances."

[Brainfodder]

57. Rooting for her and hubby to immediately drop dead from it, TBH.

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]

59. What an asshole.

[BadGimp]

60. OK then...

[miyazaki]

62. Two Man Enter, One Man Leaves!

Rolf, literally.

[Raine]

63. Anyone who goes into a casino in Las Vegas ... STAY THERE

and don't come to California spreading the virus and causing us to be in quarantine forever!