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It seems the mayor of Las Vegas only wants profit and do not understand the pandemic, in a recent interview with Cnn anchor Anderson Copper she wants the business open including casinos, hotels, and stadium. what do you think about this

She even accused Anderson Copper of being an alarmist, so pathetic

Check out the interview

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=216500932976803

LoL  ;D ;D

Does that video cover the full conversation? It seems that the Mayor is frustrated with the economy of her city.
It's ridiculous that she wants everything to be open but she doesn't care about the safety precautions or anything else. She wants her city to be a control group? Oh, come on.

How can she become a mayor?  ;D

What a pathetic words came from to a mayor, she's too selfish on saying up words.We do understand that everyone do need to work and do need money but it isnt right that
opening up casinos,hotel etc. as of this moment.We know the current condition and she cant just ignore peoples lives just for the sake of profit or money.
Each city now is experiencing economic devastation and it isnt only her place is experiencing one but globally.

This is the dumbest interview I've watched this could double the infection in the US, this mayor should be stopped from implementing it,  she wants profit for those hotel and casino owners than the health of her people, people of Las Vegas deserves a better mayor than a mayor who wants to make a profit, even there a lot of deaths in their country, I like  how Anderson reacts on this interview  :D

@pilosopotasyo I’m stunned by her statements as casinos should not open anytime soon because people won’t maintain social distancing there, and the virus can easily spread out there. @turkandjaydee even I want to know how did she become a mayor as she’s putting people's life at risk for her selfish gains. @milewilda you’re absolutely correct as all the countries in the world are suffering from the effect of this virus, and I hope better sense prevails and she doesn’t get her wish fulfilled anytime soon.

Sources:

https://in.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-casinos/almost-all-bets-are-off-casino-capitals-macau-las-vegas-slammed-by-virus-idINKBN21K0B8

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51706225

i heard the there is good number of cases within that country so yeah what he wanted to do is not appropriate  not until the country have been fully recovered  .  what makes him more bad is the fact that he accuse someone that stops him but those who stop him are actually right and should be honored with   .  this scenario reminds me on our country too or on our place rather where there were also mayor that wants to open a cock fight gambling despite of the pandemic and quarantine going on but good thing the issue were already reported on media

I heard this last week on the news. It's a hard decision to do being a mayor but she must feel the pressure from the business community in Nevada. Being a mayor doesn't really mean she is in control of the whole city, it's the people who can run and make money for the city that rules it.

Still very risky if they really will open the city for business, in few weeks the people visiting there are like walking dead.

That's a pathetic statement and if he ever really make it come to reality that may be the reason he'll be put out on her office. Though they have the least confirmed case by state in the USA that's not a reason she opens the city, no city right now I guess are rising it's economy, most are experiencing downfalls.

That business community isn' t the community of the whole, I think they should reconsider that it's still risky.

Exactly no doubt businesses are getting effected and many people who earn daily or related to this business would suffer. But this is just temporary and if see major picture by opening everything and suddenly the cases started to rise again and causing deaths at large then who would be responsible for this and again later on the business had to be shut and their would not  be testing done and only if you turn negative you can go inside no such measure exists.

She doesn't care about that, she just wants every business to open and thinks that they will operate without problems ;D.

And she only made her reputation worse. But still, that interview is quite funny and entertaining to watch. At least for me  ;D

Money/Revenue over the health of the people. Pure selfishness is what she showed in the video.

We know that many business are getting affected by this pandemic and we also know that USA is the country with most number of cases with 1.04 Million and yet she is thinking stupid things like this. Well, casinos and stadiums can open still if she wants it and the owners want it but will the people have the courage to go to a place with hundreds of people?? Do they have the courage to go to a place where they can get affected when they go? If they value their health more than the money then people will not go there even it is opened.

Anyway, they will just suffer more if this will be implemented on the city.

I think it is clear to all what he is trying to do.He seems to not care at all for people and he wants to keep his city in good financial health.I think the people of Las Vegas will be against a mass opening of the city in this time of pandemic.It is also true that this city relies heavily on gambling and adult entertainment as the main revenue sources so it is a conflict of interests in the end.

However I would never choose financial health against human lives.

Well, she's just been exposed as a mayor who is insensitive to what is happening around, for her money is important that the safety of her constituents, this could back fire to her if she is going to run  for election, no voter will elect an official who acts and talks like that, if she will not turn back and correct her stand it's the end of her career.

He does not understand how dangerous this pandemic. He can think of opening the business but not today, not in this pandemic, because that can lead to another new victim who will get infected. He should think about his citizen, help them if they don't have food, or they cannot go to the hospital so they can get help from the doctor.

I remembered she mentioned that she is thinking of the workers of these huge casinos losing their livelihood during this crisis. But whatever, whether she is really after their livelihood or the revenue of her city, she should just try to listen to the experts and decide accordingly. If she is really after the welfare of her people, she should just be providing the necessary assistance for the meantime while keeping them away from going outside their homes, and therefore from danger.

I think she is just concerned about the income that will come from casinos without considering the welfare and health of the people. The pandemic will show the true intentions of those who are elected. Even in our country, you will see those politicians who have good intentions to help and those who disappeared and made foolish decisions during the pandemic. This is a wake-up call for everyone to do not let this kind of person have such a position next election.

Everyone wants to make things back to normal, but we can't do that yet. They should be the first one to understand the situation and to protect their people's health. Seeing a mayor think that way, it's very incompetent of her. She said that Las Vegas is the entertainment capital of the world. Just wow. She really had the guts to say that on the national tv. How come she thinks of prioritizing everyone's businesses but not the health of her people? I get it, people want everything back, gamblers want to gamble, but casino is a non-essential business if she wants to re-open businesses, allow those necessary businesses only.

The cases of COVID-19 in America are rapidly increasing, and I think she's not even bothered about that because of that "We've had viruses for years". Yeah, great! A mayor that is willing to risk her people's lives just for money.

All of their circle maybe?
The anti-lockdown protest would be glad to play at there and sharing COVID-19 between of them.
God, IDK these protests make me feels crazy went they don't really care about life and everyone who working harder to handle this pandemic like doctor and nurse.

Not just their protest and supporter, their leader trump makes a statement with no sense went he want to inject disinfectant inside the body. It could be that there is something behind this, making something like this because of politics too.

Cooper feels the joke.  ;D

Tough time to open the city for all businesses, it's true that the livelihood and her people could go hungry if she can't provide sources for her people. Its been so early that the hunger already outweighs the risk. A big city like Las Vegas will always have a chaos in times when there will be scarcity of food. People will blame her for opening casinos and stadium but she will also be blamed when chaos strikes due to people starving.

Lol, this interview is really a joke, I mean being a mayor she should understand the dangers of opening any businesses right now specially in a crowded place like casino. I don't know who is the mayor's advisers are, but they should all be fired out.

It seems that she really ignorant of the pandemic and it's adverse effect and how someone can get infected. Yes, maybe she just wanted to see his city makes money again, but this is totally wrong. All of us doesn't want this things to happen, but in order for us to at least contained and minimise people getting infected and in worst cases dying, every city in the states should be close until everything settles down.

Nevada has almost 4.7K confirmed cases, what is she thinking?

And based on the toll given by Google, no one is still recovering with 200+ deaths. The US had it rough, I think this is the reason why the cases are been exploding in the country. This will just make things worse.

it says we wanted to  ,  so it means the plan havent been started yet  but before when covid isnt well known yet i think gambling is one of the source for rapid infection  but now that covid is confirmed why will he do such plan  ?

 mayor like this should be investigated  because maybe he was also doing other unwanted things that people cant see but that is better that people are now aware of what if the behavior of this mayor   . now people can vote wisely next time 

Of course he has getting pressure from those casino owners and also from the people as they are now having No work no Pay system.

But even though everything their facing is very tight still there are no reason for them to Open those establishments because this is risked the peoples health and Life.

and also i don't think that Trump will allow this to happen,Nit today as they are reaching a Million COVID patients.

Personally, I like gambling and I like casinos and showgirls and all of that,,, but never been to Vegas so I guess I will never know if I like those things, BUT I think this is irresponsible.

People who got to Vegas are likely already high or drunk, and we want them to spread the infections even wider?

Did he not know how many people have died from it?

This is one of the reasons that US is witnessing the high number of cases in the world then any other country and so many innocent people are dying . We wish this ends soon and people recover fully from it quickly. But for this we need to maintain social distancing and need to avoid public places or meet people for the time begin and opening means thing may still not improve that efficiently as it would have been in lockdown.

If this got through, we all could say that this is one of the worst mayors I've ever known. It is true that the economy and the people will be affected but that doesn't mean that we should focus on the economy since, with the people in there, they could just get that back after some time. Either way, Nevada is known for gambling, they could just restart after this pandemic since it will not be a problem after this. People would be flooding the casinos, she should focus on the people more rather than on their economy.

I hope this is the only mayor in the world with this kind of thinking if we have two or three authorities with this kind of thinking, the world will be in trouble, Sweden is not implementing a lockdown but they are following all the precautions but Las Vegas is very much different, this is the most active city in the world and it's hard to contain its people. 

The greed of money, it is very alarming because they prioritize the profit compare to the welfare of it's citizens. The mayor didn't even think the worst scenario if in case there will be virus carrier that will play there and it will surely spread easily, once it will happen they will surely be the center of the pandemic the same with US.

Being a hard headed will not bring a good result, if they can just wait a little longer until the vaccine will be discover then they can open without any worries.

I'm going to sit on the opposite side of everyone's opinion and say "let the doors open up".

We're willingly only looking at MSM's words and ignoring the facts - the virus isn't as bad as they make it sound and the truth is slowly revealing.

So you're telling me that social distancing is a must and we can't even walk around anymore (which is bad for our general health) but we can visit the supermarkets on a daily basis, spend hours in them and it's perfectly fine if thousands of Romanians are going for seasonal work in Germany (https://www.romania-insider.com/coronavirus-romanian-seasonal-workers-fly-germany) with no social distancing measures, no masks and so on.. and the gov even tried hiding that from us.. yeah, sure.

I can go to Germany with 1000 more people but I can't go for a walk or go to a casino. Amazing, a way of thinking that has so much logic in it.. ::)

Maybe She is just desperate because of there are thousands or millions employee in His state that starving now and also Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world losses billions of dollars if this will continue longer.

But if She really loves Her constituents ?then the Government will be the one who decides when to let the casinos open again,and the quarantine must continue.

This is probably how the mayor thinks of the workers in those establishments:

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But the workers are pushing back (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/las-vegas-workers-push-back-after-mayor-s-call-reopen-n1190036) though. They are not willing to go back to work unless there are stricts measures, to protect their health, in place which I completely agree. The mayor is obviously pressured but her statement that it is up to these establishments to figure how to implement health protocols just worsens the situation.

That Mayor is clueless! But what can we really expect from politicians in these trying times? Even their boss in the white house is also clueless of this pandemic and its effects. They have all the expert advisers around them and yet they still remain awfully ignorant. And the people are starting to grow like them too.

That is literally what you get when you do not care about the best person running for the job but only care who is running. She is the wife of the old mayor as well, so between her and her husband they have been mayors of Las Vegas for the past 21 years, since 1999; which means she probably has very valid opinions about the business world that gets constant checks and that is how she could be quite very well rich, she is also one of the only mayors in the whole world who wouldn't be criticized for gambling probably and I can see how things could get interesting that way as well.

So long story short it does make sense that she would want the business' to be open, if I was getting millions from them I would probably sell my soul and open the city as well, I hope I won't if I am ever in similar position of ethical or economical, but I can at least understand it.

in fact, it is indeed a difficult choice when a prolonged lockdown in effect people will not have income, on the other hand, if the city or place of business is opened it will endanger everyone.
that is why regional leaders like Las Vegas are confused to deal with a pandemic like today.

It might provide a time limit or a specific place to open a city and place of business so that people around can still find income even with a short time limit.

Didn't watch the interview as responses here is enough to tell me what happened. Even how the Mayor likes it to happen, I doubt business owners will consider doing it. And local government can't just mandate it just because they want it. Since we are talking about the global pandemic virus, they need to comply with the government's current ruling and policy.

Criticisms will surely raised and the Mayor will be aware of that. I want to see what will be her next move.

I do not understand why there are still people who think that the Coronavirus is not something lethal and even worse are the people who were chosen to direct the destiny of a state or nation.
I have a friend who lives in Las Vegas and she tells me that there are people who want to reopen economic activities in her city, as well as others who disagree.
Because they think that it is not the time to do it due to the high rates of contagion that are still counted every day.

I don't think she is clueless, he really knows what going on, but she still insists to re open every business, which means she is dumbf**k. How the hell did people from Las Vegas vote for here, LMAO. And if you listen to her interview, one thing caught my attention, if I'm not mistaken she say's shops like beauty parlor needs to open, Lol, maybe she was to have a good manicure or pedicure.  :).

Everything she says doesn't make sense at all, I wish here no harm, but in any case she volunteer to be in that control group and then became infected, then she will surely understand, but it is going to be too late.

I am not sure if people around her want to re-open their business in this pandemic because this moment still in danger, and many people suggested staying at home. I hope she can consider his mind and think about his people and don't risk them in this pandemic situations. It is better to be careful and prioritize our life first than the other thing. We can search for money in another way or another day, but once we lose our life or we die, we cannot do anything except buried in the graveyard.

If she still insists to re-open the business, I hope that he can be careful, and he can apply a high safety standard for every people in his city, and make sure that everyone can feel safe.

As of now the more priority is health not the money or the economy because if people die who gonna work . I understand many people wants this lock end but we need to be patient because if we are still doing our want we want is the lockdown will be extend for sure. I don't see enough reason to open the whole city such as many business lile the casino for this now.

Hospitals are empty, our MSM is barely getting some fear-inducing scenes from the hospitals (they are trying so hard it's getting pathetic already), doctors coming out and saying the truth about vaccines & the virus are silenced, arrested or sent to psychiatric centers.

When the pandemic was officially declared, my local shop had approximately half of their workers allegedly infected with the virus and yet they're still working in a healthy state, I haven't heard of anybody I know to be infected/dead from the virus nor did I hear from them that they have relatives/friends who have been infected/dead from it (and by "infection" I mean infection, not "asymptomatic cases"), now it's pretty official that any death is considered a virus death and the latest figures show more than enough evidence that it's a wanted panic & lockdown, but not for the virus itself.

I was among the first ones to get supplies for months and stay under self-isolation before the virus even reached my country and believed everything MSM said.. until they started using the same scenes from Italy in NYC reports, using mannequin resuscitation recordings to create a fake image of "the hospitals being overwhelmed" and my local news started going extremely tryhard. That's when things started getting stinky for me.

When social media starts censoring any theory with substance and silencing everyone who comes out in public to talk about things they have discovered/researched, something doesn't smell right. It's all starting to look pretty CCP-like and I don't like it at all.

Let me give you one example: 5G. I'm not 100% saying it's the 5G causing the virus, but since this theory appeared all I have seen is the theory getting wiped off the Internet and MSM saying "No, 5G isn't causing or influencing the virus!".. so we're going to rely purely on what we're willing to believe and what we aren't? We have a lot of studies that have been done in the past decades proving the effect of EMF on human cells and bodies, yet we rely on MSM's words..

You'd probably be surprised to find out there are even documentaries out there, dated years ago, talking about WHO faking epidemics. "Conspiracy" is nowadays a word used to categorize anything MSM does not say as if MSM isn't legally allowed in some countries to use propaganda.. the sad news is that people are too blind yet to see facts and only consider what they see on TV to be real.

You can't tell me this is a very serious situation when my local hospital is less overwhelmed than it was before the pandemic and I simply haven't heard anyone to talk about an infected/dead relative from the virus. I have formed this new habit of asking the workers of shops I go to whether they have heard of any, and guess what: the answer has not been "yes" even once since February. Yet, if I open the TV it's all panic and hysteria.. should I believe real life or the news anchors?  ::)

What if we've been looking to stop the virus from spreading and exactly 5G is its cause, and all these people who study it are silenced when they could come out with the perfect solution to the virus? I'm just saying, it's getting a lil' too stinky and their attempt to overreact to this situation is already getting too pathetic..

I have relatives from at least 4 different countries and they haven't heard of anyone either to be infected/dead from it, I actually hear the ambulance nowadays way less often than I used to before the pandemic.. And regarding the Romanians going to Germany for seasonal work, the gov tried hiding it and the situation of them leaving to work in crowded airports was found by mistake..

If you put away what the authorities & news say, start thinking critically and looking for answers, you'll go down a huuuge rabbit hole - I can ensure you, and within a week you'll start questioning everything too instead of throwing any "conspiracy" to the trash without even giving it a try. Maybe, just maybe, these "theories" have more of a substance than what you've heard so far.

But it's real, right.. let's believe what legal propaganda says and not what I witness with my own eyes.. ::)

we can't blame Her because She loves the City and the people who lives in there though this is risky but still they need to eat and survive as there are so many No work No Pay since casinos are closed.
At least She is vocal about what the people needs now and not just going with the flow of story.
thanks for the share but at least there is someone whos fighting for the benefits of the people.

if they open it who will go there only ppl who live nearby will drive there by car any other obliged to not travel so

They probably could open stadium ...certain kinds of stadia though (especially those that are not enclosed or those with open space for fresh air). Stadium visitors will still need to apply the social distancing.
Not sure about the hotels and casinos that exist there. Those could easily attract crowds(in such enclosed environments) which against the rules. If they end up opening, they will still be required to get their costumers & others to observe social distancing while  wearing masks and other things as adviced.
 So, social distancing could still mean few customers coming to the physical businesses. They will run at low capacity unless they earn online too.

That's the problem. You're only considering what you can see with your own eyes to be relevant. You're assuming the situation that you are experiencing locally applies to the rest of the world. It does not. I'm not going to try to change your mind about believing in whatever conspiracies you want to. Its tiring and this isn't even the right part of the forum for that kind of thing.

Plus, I can't wait until the acronym "MSM" falls out of style. Its beyond obnoxious at this point.

The idea is about surviving. If she keeps her people inside their homes, it's just going to take weeks without food to die while allowing them to go to their jobs and go on with their business with protection in mind and social distancing, these people may live more than months and may survive til virus vaccine is created.

I'm not a politician but they are going to please no one if they kept their people at home without food. Something has to be done so may her idea isn't so bad but allowing one person in the family to go earn is possible.

This is just one example why so many people are dying and suffering as a result of this Corona virus. The USA has almost a third of the world's infections and the most deaths and people like this wants to continue as normal.

They will only be stopped when one of their kids or his wife or someone close to him dies because of this. The greed sometimes cloud people's judgement and when the real pandemic hits them, then they are the first to cry.

His position as mayor will be in the hands of the voters, who will stop voting for him, when their families died.  >:( 

Politicians are corrupt, some of them got in their position with the help of the private investors and being a Mayor in Vegas, for sure he is also living a luxurious life. Well, even if he wants to open the casinos, but national orders will be followed at this crisis, not a local order.

If She really want to show concern to The community of Las Vegas then he must not consider opening the businesses because those casinos and hotel owners are surely either Millionaire or Billionaire so there is no big effect of not operating for at least 1-4 months,but the problem is the employees that is now under quarantine and now not having money to pay bills and buy foods,I think she cans how the Job by asking these millionaires to at least share their Money to the affected community.

the real benefit of the people is they are alive during and after this pandemic, you can always gain profit and money but people only have one life and people should not gamble on that, not because it's a gambling capital of the world, we will just the mayor gamble with their lives.

^ Probably to die because of COVID 19 or to die because of starvation are the two things that everyone is considering during this period of lockdown because of the pandemic. Las Vegas is a city of nightlife though aside from casinos and stadiums that they have they still have other businesses that are not for leisure and fun these leisure establishments are the main source of the city's fund. Nowadays where these establishments cannot operate many of their employees might not have income as well. Nevertheless, probably still, be early for Mayor Copper to open their city again and make it fully operational she must have to consider and weigh first the pros and cons of her decision.

Well maybe She is thinking that this is for good of her starving people but in the end, it might still worsen the situation but who knows if she has a plan for a strictly precautionary measure to implement when she lift the lockdown.

At the end of the day, it will still be up to us if we are going to patronize those establishments while the virus is still everywhere it is like having fun at your own risk.

It was a clear irresponsibility from a politician or public servant to open up the whole city of Las Vegas which includes the casinos and stadiums that will promote mass gathering which is supposedly be prohibited because of the acting pandemic that is still on nowadays. It is clearly not a good decision making for the sake of money and profit to risk the lives of your people. Many people are affected of this pandemic and many do not have work because of lockdown and quarantine because it stands for a purpose to prevent the spread of the virus to lessen or narrow down the number of infected. This must be implemented by public officials and not be neglected just for the sake of money. Always care for the safety of your people and constituents because it is a job associated for being a mayor.

Every leader is in dilemma right now, we should stop criticizing them in moments like this, we should support them and suggests what they can do for every one. As I said, every leader is in dilemma, they have sufficient funds for what? 6 months to 1 year? but there will be economic downfall after that, the question is are we sure that we will conquer the virus after that given time? NO. On the other side, if they let people to go outside, have their normal things to do like their job to have an income then they are just being exposed, making them vulnerable to the virus.

I'm thinking of the same idea, what if the government let a person from a family to earn in one condition, they will not going home until the fight with the virus is over. How this idea sounds to you guys?

 MSM is definitely lying, they are bunch of liars, all those doctors who go live are liars and in on it as well and even if they are not in on it they are forced to with blackmail of being fired or jailed, so they have to.

 Please go outside and meet with every single person who thinks like you, give each other hugs, kiss each other (however the way you want) and rub each others faces all day just so you can prove that nothing will happen to you at all, we all know MSM is full of it and governments of the world are all liars, so just do it and prove everyone that its totally fine.

 If I were you I would start going outside no matter what, not wear any mask, not wear any gloves, basically be totally unprotected, hell start with going naked as well, after all the only reason why we are wearing anything is fashion world paid BILLIONS of dollars to politicians of the world to ban being naked, everyone should have the right to be naked if they want to be.

 It is your duty as the citizen of this world to touch every single thing a "corona virus" person touches, that way you can prove people that you are immortal and anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

(everyone else, stay away from kevin at least 1.5 feet, probably 1.5 miles if you can)

This is really scary, like literally life threatening level of dangerously scary. Some people (even here kevin does it) still trying to tell people that mainstream media lies to them about the virus and there is nothing wrong to go outside at all. Look I am not the one who will defend mainstream media, they are as crooked as it gets and they are definitely not to be trusted in any other situation, they keep lying to people all the time and we agree on that.

HOWEVER this is not a drill, this is not fake, this is not to make some more money, believe me because I literally have two twin doctor friends (literally my best man on my wedding type of close) that have been working on people with sickness and they had over 20+ death literally in front of their eyes and they have been trying to cure over 100 people, that is just past two weeks since their hospitals declared pandemic hospital, and these are just two people.

Times that with all the pandemic hospitals all around the world and you get the real result. Things could be actually even WORSE than what MSM is saying, let alone better. If it wasn't my very close friends who were doctors who have been actually curing these people or actually have them die in their hands, I would say maybe you are right, after all I wouldn't have any sort of proof at all, so why would I defend something when I have zero proof, however I literally have proof of it, so I can say you are very very wrong.

No, imagine what was done by (the mayor of Las Vegas), which should have been a pandemic rule imposed by the local government precisely the highest officials in the Las Vegas area to open casinos and stadiums, where all countries forbid people to do activities right now.it makes no sense if this would happen considering the number of citizens in the US who are infected every day continues to grow has reached 1,079,894 cases, with the death rate has reached 62,672 deaths.

Link: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/


If the mayor of LV, uncontrolled continues to insist on opening the casino and stadiums, this will be fatal to its citizens.
This I think the mayor is insane, always considering personal gain.

So tax revenue got more priority over people lives. :o If this words came from a third world poor country then it maybe acceptable but they have enough sources to stay in the lockdown for few more years but still they can't hold on without making any money in the lockdown.

But I wonder what is the point of opening every single venue in that city? Many people have lost their jobs and those that are still employed are not going to spend their money on trips to Las Vegas, so even if the crisis with the coronavirus was resolved tomorrow there are still going to be too many factors against a quick economic recovery, as such even if I understand why she is worried about the economy of Las Vegas I do not really think that much will change economically speaking if everything opened as soon as possible, but that measure will have huge repercussions and many people will get sick because of it.

I was quite surprised by the way of thinking of major las vegas, why it could be so selfish and not thinking about the interests of
many people.Why someone like that can be chosen as a major. I just saw the interview so annoyed, especially Las Vegas residents
more upset and disappointed to have a major who is only selfish. Even though the United States is still an country the first is related
to the spread of corona virus, the major of las vegas should realize this.

This would be a disaster if the Las Vegas plans were followed. The USA has the most deaths by a coronavirus by now and opening one of the busiest cities in the USA will be more dangerous to people. Why would a mayor act like this? Prioritizing the economic gains and not the citizen's health. Many people are scared about the virus right now because it is highly contagious, People are practicing social distancing today, and having casino open means more interaction will happen. This is an inappropriate way of responding to a crisis like this.

It would really be considerable if those words come to a third world country because out of desperation then we can understand on why they have said those words but for a
rich country? Its totally nonsense on what they've been talking. Resuming businesses while they are on the middle of the problem?

Prioritizing tax or profits than peoples lives? what a pathetic kind of leader they do had in that case.She could just wait for this problem to be solved
out than thinking up selfishly.

Even this all is really scary and not in favor of any thing like this peoples like this really doing poor politics I was watching few channles and we have few peoples with same mentallty like this they want to open business and many things because its good for generating profit and taxes but peoples lives are not important for them really feeling bad for this all.

Such decision will incur many loss of lives if in case they will not be careful about this situation. Social distancing and use of mask should always be practiced if ever they will open all those businesses. If they will implement this soon, they will see the aftermath of this decision even after a month. I hope they are not doing this wrongly.

These leaders is always thinking for their own welfare, neglecting the bigger problems that might arise when the pandemic virus hits more infection if they continue to have operation while the amidst epedimic continues to be harmful to anyone. They shouldn't ignore this situation, because this is becoming worst if more cases will be reported when physical distancing will be ignored. This shouldn't be given permit to operate gambling while we're still fighting for the virus to spread globally.

If mayor opens city prematurely without the virus fully eliminated in the country it could lead to more transmission and more people might get affected leading in to much longer quarantine.
If that happens people will die from starvation and no time to play gambling games or spend time in casino's because they'll be busy struggling to survive.

Because they think having no income, and a temporary drop in the economy is a bigger problem that this virus and the health of every citizen lol. If I'm not mistaken, I saw somewhere in Reddit that in the interview, she was asked if she would step in the casino along with the workers (when they re-open casinos), she said: " first of all, I have a family". How funny that she's also afraid of getting infected but does not even think of the people. And that she also has her family, does she think that casino workers don't have a family? Is she the only one who has a family? They only think of their own safety, but not everyone else.

They're probably not looking at the bigger picture as it could snowball even further, few days ago I remember reading an article (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8270245/Japanese-island-hit-second-wave-coronavirus-ending-lockdown-early.html) about one place in Japan suffering from a similar situation. They lifted the lockdown after recovering from the virus then the number of cases started rising once again.

It looks like casinos might have different approaches (https://www.reddit.com/r/LasVegas/comments/gbpf5j/station_casinos_response_5120/) even if they're allowed to fully go back and open their business.

I believe no matter how frustrated the mayor about the City's economy, she should consider the greater goods which is the health of her citizen.  If she wanted to have more revenue, she can actually enable online gaming or online gambling to help with the city economy's finance matter. But opening all the establishment with the height of Pandemic is a no-no for it will only put her citizen in great danger.


Indeed, it seems that was a short-sighted decision.  Stubborn people never learn the lesson from other's experience such as Japan in this case. 

Just curious, what is the appropriate way of dealing with this thing?

To set a 24-hour curfew and then rigorously try to enforce it? But what makes you think that the virus will go away and won't come back when the curfew is finally lifted, instantly throwing you back to square one? It is not the total death toll that counts, especially if all of us will have to pull through this disease eventually (though it counts too, of course), but the so-called case fatality rate (http://case fatality rate) that allows us to see things in their true light and from a proper perspective

He is really not aware of his surroundings, probably he is not watching news or reading some article related to this virus. How did he become a Mayor if he doesn't have any concern to his people since he is an elected Mayor of Las Vegas. That's the problem in politics, it is really hard to determine if a politician is really responsible and accountable about his position once that he win an election. Allowing business like casino and stadiums to become open during this pandemic is really inhumane. People will surely gather in a casino because of the effect of quarantine, many gamblers are urge to gamble physically and not online that's why casino will probably become populated.

Business like gambling casinos and stadiums aren't necessary during this pandemic no matter if they follow the rules of social distancing, still there is a gathering that will happen. Stay at home and take care of yourself and I hope that the Mayor of Las Vegas should realize the risk and hazard that he might give to people when he really open those places.

Being a Mayor of one of the the largest income places in the world ,
Las Vegas is losing tons of money from this
forced stop operations so i believe that this is a normal Speech from Her but it doesnt mean She will implement this because
Quarantine is a country law and not by cities.
also i can feel Her Desperation because those employees
 from their end and also employers are seeking for profitable days now because of more than a month ECQ.

It is obvious that the mayor of Las Vegas is making the economy the priority, however I wonder how much of a difference will it make? What I mean is that Las Vegas is a city that depends very heavily on its tourism sector in order to generate the profits that it needs and even if they opened the whole economy it is fair to ask us if people are going to fly to Las Vegas to have some fun when they do not even have enough money to pay the rent, when you think about that it is obvious that cities like Las Vegas that depend on its tourism will suffer for a very long time.

There is a part of people who have money and wanted to spend in this lockdown period as well so entertainment spots like vegas targeting such individuals to make income for their economy.I feel like we can see these kind of statement countries by end of this month because they need money to do all these development things and they are already running out of money.

I know this is a very hard decision for the mayor, she just doesn't want their economy to fall while the people in Las Vegas are also suffering from this pandemic. She needs to choose whether she will let the people of this city suffer from this pandemic and its economy will fall or the city will suffer from this pandemic while they can save their economy.

She's taking her cue from Trump who wants to open the economy and keep it moving, this is very dangerous and very sensitive indeed and the stat is showing it, they are now leading in the chart in the most number of infected and death, they should show concern, the virus will not vanish until we have a vaccine, the number will definitely grow, because of their bad actions.

Having a more than a million infected and hundred thousands death?Yeah they must show more concern than anything even economic because they will surely add numbers in their dats now.
Actually those who wanted the lockdown to be lifted are those employees and workers that has nothing to spend now,they are looking for job to have foods in their table and money to pay bills.

People who have money don't want the lockdown to be lifted? I guess who have money also wanted to go outside and wanted to lead their normal life as before like hanging out with friends and girls and wanted to go out for party night,etc.

That would be crazy, there is still a pandemic and they plan to do business, this is what happens when people ignore science, they will abandon all reason just so they can earn a profit. The worse thing here is that they are abandoning their ethical and moral obligation to the citizens of Las Vegas, I get that their place will not function because most of the businesses there is gambling and that "they care" about the people not getting a paycheck to put food for the table but would you sacrifice the well being of your biggest natural resource which is human resource, this action is a face palm for me, truly disappointing.

I think they just don't have any other choice because their economy is starting to fall drastically, and this is something that they don't want to happen. They think that this is the only solution for their problems, this is crazy because it will look like they are disregarding the safety of their citizen and by doing this, they won't apply social distancing, and people won't stay in their homes.

Yes they are crazy I understand people are needs to earn money because they really need money to buy foods and other needs.
But the government needs to help those people until the lockdown end , a mayor needs to think more before they reopen the businesses because as a mayor he need to protect his citizens not of the sake of money

This is a proof that economy is more important for them than health.

We saw some of the training places for NBA that are opened already so that they can train there. In this case, their mayor wants Las Vegas to be open because they got a lot of money from the casinos. Their economy is heavily affected by this virus and opening of casinos would be a bad idea for me. I know that they are one of the most powerful countries in the world but right now they are in a battle with an invisible enemy and the number of cases keeps growing so I totally disagree with this. I hope that this will not happen or they will suffer really bad.

And this is a tricky and even touchy question

What is more important, the health of a single individual (even 100,000 individuals, for that matter) or the health of the whole nation (over 300M people in case of the US)? Yeah, I know that every life is as important as everyone else's, but you can't run away from this heavy and tough choice (provided it is up to you), just like a surgeon has to choose whether to chop off a limb and save the organism or lose both in case of a gangrene or something as bad and life-threatening. To cut a long story short, the failure of the entire economy may cause far more destruction and damage than any coronovirus outbreak would ever be able to wreak. Such is life, then you die (and not necessarily from a virus)

Economy is important, but if you don't have citizens what do you do with the economy? Coronavirus is not only a disease, but also a threat to human life. If we want to win against it, we must have to follow the rules. Do you know "World Health Organization" says there is possibility of a second-stage covid-19 infection, and that it will be more God-awful? In that case, if the mayor of Las Vegas lifted all the lock-downs to keep the economy afloat, it would be utter nonsense, first of all the mayor should ensure the safety of the citizens.

I think we all want to return to our previous lives but those that have money can withstand the lockdown for a very long time while those that are poor or middle class cannot really afford to be on their home for months, the question is if trying to go back to normal is the right choice? And even if an attempt to do so is made will people return to their old spending habits? And that is doubtful, I think that what we are seeing is a complete shift in the priorities of people and many industries are going to suffer because of it including tourism.

Each sector had been heavily affected by this pandemic not only on the tourism that you have mentioned but also into other field as well.Of course, all of us do like
to go back to normal and i understand on what are the reasons why there are people specially this one mentioned on op are eager to make such step.
We cant really sustain if this one would take for too long, lots would be heavily affected.Come to imagine that we are still a couple of months of this lockdown
but we are already seeing and feeling the effects of it,how much more if it would last even more longer?

Yes, for those who have money and want to rest for a while from work, of course will say: stay at home. But what answer do they have for those people who are in hunger? When they have fridge full of foods they think everyone shares the same. Of course hunger isn't infectious so who cares... They say like: You, hungry boy, stay at home cause virus can kill me and you. If we stay at home, I'll escape.

Well, I agree with him. Not only casinos but in overall countries have to open. Your health is 100% linked to your economics, you have no tolerance on hunger but you may build one on virus.

The problem with that pressure the mayor needs to take action, though in a wide view point its still dangerous since if this will happen, gatherings from any places will be open and spread of the virus will be much easier, unless there's specific plans coming from the local government that have stricker rules in terms of social distancing and every security measures to avoid or prevent the spread.

It still depends, the risk depends on accurate count of numbers of infected, even though we know the risk of spreading the virus, we also know that the main business running in Vegas are casinos and stadiums, their economy will suffer if they don't open as there might be no alternative option to gain income aside from these two. But if they think they can handle the number of cases and they know they have already secured the virus, I think they have the right to open up these establishments again and put more precautionary measures and increase sanitation.

Yes and especially in the USA we have the world biggest number of infections and deaths which should make them think how badly the situation can precipitate.They don’t think about human lives and they only think of the money and maybe that is why this virus is good in one only aspect and that is people don’t see money as the only thing to fight for but rather they have started to value life more.

During this pandemic someone said I never knew a time would come where you can have a lot of money and you have nowhere to spend them in the open life(not online).

Well  she is the Mayor then pressure cannot be towards her
because businessman knew that what she
 did is only implementing the rules put by the government so
 there is no way that it will be a big issue
 on both parts.the only problem here is the operator of casino
s are looking to make money soon while
 the problem is still rising better not support them and just let
them become eager but the rules must be at works.

I just look at Las Vegas virus statistics, and they recently passed 6k mark of total confirmed cases having a total of 306 deaths, FYI. I can't see the total number of recoveries in the said place hence I can't say drastically whether that such place is worthy of allowing businesses to reoperate plus I am not any of an authority to decide it, it is for the sake of discussion lol.

Well, anyway going back, Nevada governernor, had mentioned (https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.livescience.com/amp/nevada-coronavirus-updates.html) that there will be a reopening of non-eseential businesses on May 9, on the other hand this will turn out to be a sort of a test, evaluation of its impact, and decisions whether they should remain prohibited on opening or just temporarily open for public would have on the latter. Still health matters though. In addition this kind of thing risky decision of an authorities ain't happening in Las Vegas alone, it is just that public needs to have such businesses be open, at least. And oh... they are limiting people to accomodate at 50% capacity while maintaining social distancing. So, the thing that is worriesome here, is that, are citizens disciplined to follow guidelines here? 'Cause if they are not, then, there's no reason on imposing those rules, and in effect they have to remain shutdown so there will be no additional disturbance for health workers. You can see businesses that would be allowed to open here (https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/nevada/some-businesses-to-reopen-saturday-but-not-casinos-2023007/).

Majorly economy of the world has taken a hit and not just one city. Many countries are under lock down from few weeks now and it has not only taken a backseat of economy many people would be turning jobless in coming time. This is going to be a very big crisis in coming time and safety is the first measure which can prevent many things. Else if it continues to rise this way the world will have many deaths of the people which we would not want. It all depends upon people if they can maintain the law and order with social distance then things could be under control else it can have adverse effect as well.

Exactly, if there are no citizens that will survive against this pandemic, solving the problem with their economy will be useless.

Regarding the second-stage COVID-19, that is exactly what Japan is currently facing right now. They lifted their lockdown so early, but they are now suffering with the virus again. Las Vegas should think that they might have the same fate as Japan, they should think twice of this decision.

During the last week or so, a number of countries relaxed the lockdown measures. This includes Italy, South Korea, Spain and Germany. In almost all the cases, the infection rates skyrocketed. South Korea used to witness single digit cases until a week ago. Now thousands have been put on quarantine there. Lifting of lockdown is something that should be done very carefully, after a proper analysis.

They are frustrated just for a few months of lockdown? when they're having a nonstop activity before this pandemic happened. They need to focus on how they will help people to recover from this pandemic and think about how they can help them with anything they need. they just being selfish and want to earn again as soon as possible. their selfishness is just one thing, their greed will let the people put in danger if they pursue this kind of act.

I can't imagine that they can think of reopenning casinos in times like this,
It is like they are disregarding the security of the health of every person residing in Las Vegas. The whole world is suffering, we are experiencing the same situation, economic crisis, lack of funds, increasing death, etc, this should not be done and what we should do is to stay at home until the vaccine is be created.

The Mayor needs to make  sure everything can be handled in terms of physical distancing and all those safety security measures before this kind of actions will take place. There's still no cure for this pandemic virus and with such statement it's risking the lives of many people who will going out and start to live in a normal daily routine once the city proceeds and open everything.

Have you checked the whole interview with Anderson Cooper? She doesn't cares about it. Here what happens:

Anderson goes "How do you do social distancing in casino?" and Carolyn goes "That's upto them to figure out"... Lol seriously.. She doesn't knows anything, she just wants Las Vegas to get opened again and rest the precautions against virus are you to figure out.


Mikel Jollett tweeted about US president:
https://i.imgur.com/pKV1SJV.png

Somehow it feels like the same but like the President, doesn't gives a shit about people but also doesn't knows how to stop the virus spread.

It may seem difficult to imagine but that is exactly what it is happening, and what it is even more worrying is that while it is understandable that some local governments want to open their cities there doesn't seem to be any kind of concern about how to do that while still preserving several of the precautions that we have currently in place, basically they want to open the city as if nothing is happening, and if that were to happen I'm sure that will eventually lead to an even longer period of social isolation and economic shutdown, but it seems that they do not see it that way.

Nevada has remained somewhat safe when compared to the other states. As of now, they have only around 6,000 cases when compared to the figure of 80,000 in California and 14,000 in Arizona. But if the authorities go ahead with their relaxation plans, then they may witness a spike in Nevada at a time when the number of new infections are going down in the other states.

I think they desperate because of this virus spreads in many places while they need to make money. But that is not a good idea to re-open the casino at this time because that can make some people in another city or country will angry with them because they disregard the urgent situation now. But we cannot do anything if the government allow them to re-open the casino, but the government must warn them to use the high-security standard to protect people from the virus.

Surely these politicians just wanted money in their pockets, It's already late as the COVID-19 virus is already spreading in the United States, and its never a good idea to open every casino or the city for everyone. Maybe if they could execute the opening and be ready for social distancing and rules in a casino etc. either way it is still risky to go out in this casino because there were just a lot of people or maybe they could do a rule of 20-30 person only but I doubt it because the target could be to earn money having a few customers is not good for them.

I think until there is no cure for this virus it is still not safe to go to this casino or even go outside It just not worth it and too risky for everyone.

We hope that they really want to re-open the casino, they need to think about the people who will come to their place, and how they can follow the procedure standard for protecting their health. From 30 person, we don't know if they can be a suspect of the virus because I heard that people could be a carrier without any sign that the person has the virus or not in inside of his body. Yes, I agree that we don't go outside if we don't have an urgent thing that needs us.

I don't think having such rule will do good. At best it should be closed and there is no best precaution than this. Even if they maintain social distancing, what will they do about gamblers who will continuously touch the slot machines and other tables. It is not achievable with rules and merely maintaining social distancing. There are lot of unforeseen situation which could happen so at best the city should remain in lockdown as it is.

I can't really explain to you how much money is in politics, you think there is some money in it but rarely everyone sees the whole money situation goes around in politics, many people think that there is "some" money in politics but in reality almost all money is in politics. When you are mayor of some place that is as big as Las Vegas, know that you are dealing with billions constantly, and every single decision you make could mean tens of millions of dollars in profit or loss for the casinos.

So, you think casinos wouldn't pay the mayor for making a decision on their behalf? I mean easy to talk now but when someone says "we are going to give you 50 million dollars if you open it on Monday instead of waiting another month" you are going to have hard time too.

The more sensible approach is not absolute yes or no to opening but employing all the possible measures so that even if people do engage business again its not the worst case scenario of people mixing in close quarters.   I think its fair to say business does have to reopen quite a while before an actual cure, so the work direction must be to mitigate risks and sooner they turn their minds to achieving that the better.   
  Its just lazy to say lets reopen and have it exactly the same, it cant be that people are to play russian roulette with their lives first before any monetary gamble.

It's basically, Las Vegas, all we know, the center of Casino and Gambling, we don't know how much Las Vegas has lost in terms of their economy when in fact, their main income from taxes comes from casino establishments. There's no doubt that the mayor will pursue to open these business as soon as possible. - It is hard to kind of consider the pandemic, and criticism from people. But what is important are lives of the people. Business could be retrieved and could be revived, Economy does so.

    Their lives depends on their businesses, how to provide food for you and family without money?! I think
the risk they plan to take with opening everything is what they need to do, people should be careful, to wear
masks and glows, and who wish to gamble or go to events  can do that, on their own risk!
   Responsibility is on each of us, we can't forbid people from working, or doing what they wish. I would let
them, I know I will gamble from home like until now!

yeah, we can not forbid life for undefined time, things should open a bit and everybody should be responsible for their health, it is as simple as that
if you do not want to wear mask and gloves, it is up to you, but you should be aware that you risk a lot with that decision and that you can even transfer your illness to your family members, if you want to take that risk, it is up to you

As long as the speed of spreading of the pandemic slows down, the situation within the country and the state within the state are not controlled, no business in this region should be reopened. Especially considering that a country like America is the new spreading point of the virus seems to be guaranteed to lose a lot of tourists for this year. In other words, even though these businesses start to serve again, it will take time to reach its old performance and at least there is no customer guarantee for this year. I hope this erroneous decision is reevaluated and such businesses start to open after the most important measures for human health are taken.

It seems like the rate of the people infected with the virus is not slowing down and even if it slowed down but they have the biggest in the world with over 1 million people infected with the virus, without a proper measure, the virus will easily spread, therefore if the government has no measure to prevent the virus from spreading, they better not force opening this kind of establishment too soon.

America is a giant country, I understand towns are very compact in places but the capacity to get past this trouble is there.   Some countries are incredibly poor so far as their land per person.  There is no actual requirement with most countries for confinement in public to small areas; hospitals and other specialist areas obviously its going to be difficult but retail is not that imo.
    Its not a popular request but keep a big space when doing business or any other public activity and this is summer so there is no excuse for risking lives on a simple measure.   Obviously we are talking expense, effort and alot of arrangements will have to be remade but business can continue sensibly with plenty of space given to stop people mixing and spreading a disease before any kind of proper cure or treatment can be given.
   Theres no need for needless deaths or a total stop to business, the hassle of constantly avoiding risks is going to be required though.

Major Las Vegas should better understand the conditions of the city that was led by him, to open crowded places such as casinos and stadiums,
now is not the right time. Since the spread of the corona virus is still ongoing, it would be nice if the city of las vegas continued to lockdown.
And major las vegas can be wiser in making decisions by delaying opening casinos and stadiums.

This is the difficult part, I can understand that governments want to open their economies as soon as possible to lessen the economic effects of the virus, but this needs to be in company of safety measures to help keeping the spread of the virus at a minimum level and that is not what we see, it seems politicians are actually more worried to get people back to work than in their safety and this can be problematic as this could generate a second wave of the virus even bigger than the first one.

Yes, we all know the risks that might occur if the casino reopens and is accessed by many visitors. But this business is money and they will push and find the best solution to continue a business that is stuck because of a pandemic. One effort so far as I know is to provide access to casinos on the condition of physical distance and use "mask or glove" protection as well as several other rules.

In the current situation, everyone is certainly worried about how to handle the pandemic well. But the pandemic still cannot be predicted when it will end and if something forced is caused by money then what is at stake is life.

If we say only covid-19, then it will end once the vaccine is ready, however, we might not know what's coming in the future, maybe another virus that would again disrupt the world like what we are experiencing now or even worst, so the government has to be prepared for that, and also, even if the virus will be contain, there is always an after effect, the economy will continue to struggle and it might take long before we can recover.