Macau's Casino Operation Continues Despite The Latest Outbreak

[Boristhecat]

They are now will reopen prior to the recent lockdown due to low gambling activity in there casino towards the covid-19 lockdown. This is always the dilemma of country that has a huge gambling economy. They are now risking the health of there citizen just to get back again the profit from there gambling business. I think this will make worst there current covid-19 situation.

I think that the health of local residents will suffer much more if the restrictions continue to work and the economy continues to stagnate. In my opinion, in 2022 it is no longer relevant to talk about the dangers of the virus, since it has mutated into a much milder form than before and has become no more dangerous than a common cold. Life goes on as usual and there is always some risk, but you can not endlessly "safely" sit at home and do nothing.

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[rahmad2nd]

We don't see any disturbing news towards covid-19 so most provably all countries know how to contain it and there are vaccine which is available which cause the decrease of spread since many people now are protected from severe complications.

But since they decide to continue this activity for sure they find the issue towards covid-19 still manageable on their country.

They are now will reopen prior to the recent lockdown due to low gambling activity in there casino towards the covid-19 lockdown. This is always the dilemma of country that has a huge gambling economy. They are now risking the health of there citizen just to get back again the profit from there gambling business. I think this will make worst there current covid-19 situation.

I think what the Macau government is doing is not worsening the Covid situation that was troubling there. Although I can't find any more news regarding casino restrictions in Macau, I think the local government has managed to deal with the Covid case that was disturbing and closed all casinos on July 11 yesterday.  

It looks like the casino activity is back to normal after it opened last July 23 until now. However, the recovery of the gambling industry's income there will not immediately recover, at least it will take the next few months.
So, in my opinion, the disturbing Covid case in Macau has been handled by the government.

[Kakmakr]

No, I do not think the government of Macau made a mistake by making gambling their primary money spinner and income generator for their country. What else generate more income per square meter than gambling? It is only 115.3 km2 big and it has a total population of 682,300 people.  

It has the nickname of "Las Vegas of Asia.".... so that makes them an ideal tourism destination for both Asian and Portuguese people.    The Covid pandemic has basically faded away in most countries now.... so it will recover now.  

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoinnect-brings-myriad-atms-to-hong-kong-and-macau   <=== I wonder if this has grown there?

[Fortify]

We all know that Macau is the world's biggest gambling capital the world and its government is relying 80% on its revenues from casino operations as the majority of its citizen are employed directly or not directly but now it is facing a dilemma there is a rapid increase of the outbreak of the disease and they have no choice but to close most shops, banks schools, and government offices but surprisingly their casino operations are still open as they need to cope with the revenues losses and keep the money flowing to keep the government funds stable.
Do you think the government of Macau made the right decision or they are very desperate not to shut down the casino operations
because they need their economy going.

Related story and source here

Macao shuts most businesses, restaurants amid mass COVID-19 testing; casinos stay open
 

Frankly Covid is a minor blip in operations and is unlikely to affect many people outside of China. Visitors might be a bit annoyed, but I suspect most of them would be Chinese anyway with their own travel restrictions in place. Almost all tourist areas around the world have been heavily affected by the Covid crisis, we see similar economic devastation going on in Sri Lanka on a slightly larger scale and it just shows the importance of building a diversified economy rather than relying on one sector. The wider threat to Macau is more likely to be the erratic and unpredictable nature of the communist party over the medium to longer term, as they always love crackdowns when if it creates a distraction to their incompetence.

[Oilacris]

They are now will reopen prior to the recent lockdown due to low gambling activity in there casino towards the covid-19 lockdown. This is always the dilemma of country that has a huge gambling economy. They are now risking the health of there citizen just to get back again the profit from there gambling business. I think this will make worst there current covid-19 situation.

I think that the health of local residents will suffer much more if the restrictions continue to work and the economy continues to stagnate. In my opinion, in 2022 it is no longer relevant to talk about the dangers of the virus, since it has mutated into a much milder form than before and has become no more dangerous than a common cold. Life goes on as usual and there is always some risk, but you can not endlessly "safely" sit at home and do nothing.

You would really be dead when you do starve to death just because of these quarantines or isolation and we've seen such condition or situation and people are really protesting against it or trying out to

appeal that there should be at least some consideration because government aide or support isnt really enough for their living but now we've seen that things turns back to normal gradually.

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

[chaser15]

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

In the first place, we shouldn't really bother if Macau will still continue its gambling operation if there's an outbreak even in the future related to Covid-19 or any forms of mutations or variants of the virus. That's not the first time they are dealing with that problem and they know more how to handle it, of course, compare to other countries as they are used to it.

Besides, it's been several years now since the pandemic, therefore people in most countries are now well-aware of how to battle it. We are already fed by lots of information regarding the virus to the point that we can consider it now as a normal disease.

Just trust Macau on their actions. They know what they are doing.

Since this thread started, I think the gambling operation is now fairly smooth there and everything might be slowly going back to normal now.

[jossiel]

No, I do not think the government of Macau made a mistake by making gambling their primary money spinner and income generator for their country. What else generate more income per square meter than gambling? It is only 115.3 km2 big and it has a total population of 682,300 people.  

It has the nickname of "Las Vegas of Asia.".... so that makes them an ideal tourism destination for both Asian and Portuguese people.    The Covid pandemic has basically faded away in most countries now.... so it will recover now.  

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoinnect-brings-myriad-atms-to-hong-kong-and-macau   <=== I wonder if this has grown there?

They're recovering, sort of.

But with new threats of another disease like monkeypox, it isn't clear though for most countries. Everyone has to be aware and educated again on how to be protected.

Anyway, with basic protocols again, new diseases can be avoided but when things are lighter, it makes everyone confident and won't do the basic protocols that we used to do.

[AmoreJaz]

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

In the first place, we shouldn't really bother if Macau will still continue its gambling operation if there's an outbreak even in the future related to Covid-19 or any forms of mutations or variants of the virus. That's not the first time they are dealing with that problem and they know more how to handle it, of course, compare to other countries as they are used to it.

Besides, it's been several years now since the pandemic, therefore people in most countries are now well-aware of how to battle it. We are already fed by lots of information regarding the virus to the point that we can consider it now as a normal disease.

Just trust Macau on their actions. They know what they are doing.

Since this thread started, I think the gambling operation is now fairly smooth there and everything might be slowly going back to normal now.

as we can put it, they know what they are doing. they've been in this business for so long, with or without pandemic. as a small region, they can easily implement necessary protocols not only to their people but the tourists coming to this place. the in and out is quite easy to contain as you only have few points to take care of. you will understand if you happen to visit macau.

[dunfida]

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

In the first place, we shouldn't really bother if Macau will still continue its gambling operation if there's an outbreak even in the future related to Covid-19 or any forms of mutations or variants of the virus. That's not the first time they are dealing with that problem and they know more how to handle it, of course, compare to other countries as they are used to it.

Besides, it's been several years now since the pandemic, therefore people in most countries are now well-aware of how to battle it. We are already fed by lots of information regarding the virus to the point that we can consider it now as a normal disease.

Just trust Macau on their actions. They know what they are doing.

Since this thread started, I think the gambling operation is now fairly smooth there and everything might be slowly going back to normal now.

as we can put it, they know what they are doing. they've been in this business for so long, with or without pandemic. as a small region, they can easily implement necessary protocols not only to their people but the tourists coming to this place. the in and out is quite easy to contain as you only have few points to take care of. you will understand if you happen to visit macau.

If they werent that prepared then for sure it would really spread like wildfire and its true that it is really just a small place but a very progressive one due to gambling industry and thats their main tourist attraction
thats why its really hard to make out such closure since this is  where they do get big revenue and one of the biggest contribution in terms of economic progress. Pandemic doesnt only affect few countries
but in overall corners of the world and each government would really imposing protocols and steps for them to minimize as possible without affecting much their main source
in terms of taxes or revenues.

[agustina2]

No need to worry about them as Macau's recent weekly average of confirmed Cvovid cases is now 1.

And prior to that week, the average is playing only less than 10. See the improvement?

With that good progress, casino operation there is surely on the exciting level again with more people doing their usual things there.

[arwin100]

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

In the first place, we shouldn't really bother if Macau will still continue its gambling operation if there's an outbreak even in the future related to Covid-19 or any forms of mutations or variants of the virus. That's not the first time they are dealing with that problem and they know more how to handle it, of course, compare to other countries as they are used to it.

Besides, it's been several years now since the pandemic, therefore people in most countries are now well-aware of how to battle it. We are already fed by lots of information regarding the virus to the point that we can consider it now as a normal disease.

Just trust Macau on their actions. They know what they are doing.

Since this thread started, I think the gambling operation is now fairly smooth there and everything might be slowly going back to normal now.

as we can put it, they know what they are doing. they've been in this business for so long, with or without pandemic. as a small region, they can easily implement necessary protocols not only to their people but the tourists coming to this place. the in and out is quite easy to contain as you only have few points to take care of. you will understand if you happen to visit macau.

If they werent that prepared then for sure it would really spread like wildfire and its true that it is really just a small place but a very progressive one due to gambling industry and thats their main tourist attraction
thats why its really hard to make out such closure since this is  where they do get big revenue and one of the biggest contribution in terms of economic progress. Pandemic doesnt only affect few countries
but in overall corners of the world and each government would really imposing protocols and steps for them to minimize as possible without affecting much their main source
in terms of taxes or revenues.

Covid is already there for many years and provably the government protocols about how to fight or avoid these disease is been set up that's why for sure Macau government already been establish about this issues that's why they can decide to open up their economy back including the gambling industry on their country. Maybe its good to trust them on what they are doing if you are citizen of the said country since for sure the government do everything just to survive the crisis brought by this pandemic.

[traderethereum]

No need to worry about them as Macau's recent weekly average of confirmed Cvovid cases is now 1.

And prior to that week, the average is playing only less than 10. See the improvement?

With that good progress, casino operation there is surely on the exciting level again with more people doing their usual things there.

People in Macau can be happy with the results they are getting from the Covid case and this can certainly provide an opportunity for casinos to start operating again.
But we hope they can remain cautious because there is no guarantee that Covid will not return or mutate to a new variant.
The improvement in Macau is already quite good; they need to maintain it and always put health first.
Casinos that want to operate must have a strategy to attract people to return to gambling, even though it takes time.

[Kemarit]

No need to worry about them as Macau's recent weekly average of confirmed Cvovid cases is now 1.

And prior to that week, the average is playing only less than 10. See the improvement?

With that good progress, casino operation there is surely on the exciting level again with more people doing their usual things there.

I did try to look at the latest data as I was curious when you mentioned that the Covid-19 cases is very low.



So yes, it's a vastly improvement, and so is the neighboring countries as well. Which means that the Macao government is doing a good job to contained it as they want their casino's to be open so that their economy will start to move this year. Hopefully they can maintain that numbers.

[Peanutswar]

If this is one of the biggest contribution to their economy I guess it might be hard to stop with it because for sure there's a following fallback is they have a low number of cases still they can manage this easily with of course some of the health protocols or make some limited number of person in the casino like making a schedule and if the government know how to prevent spreading like make a major lockdown so they can live on the same way still it is good for them

[Reatim]

No need to worry about them as Macau's recent weekly average of confirmed Cvovid cases is now 1.

And prior to that week, the average is playing only less than 10. See the improvement?

With that good progress, casino operation there is surely on the exciting level again with more people doing their usual things there.

well the post was created last June when there are still some cases popping worldwide but yeah  nowadays it has been said that there are fewer infections happening in china specially macau in which maybe the reporting is being manipulated as there are huge money running around and if they will still report the real situation then gamblers will go away, so what can they do? that is to use the money in manipulating news .

[freedomgo]

We don't see any disturbing news towards covid-19 so most provably all countries know how to contain it and there are vaccine which is available which cause the decrease of spread since many people now are protected from severe complications.

But since they decide to continue this activity for sure they find the issue towards covid-19 still manageable on their country.

They are now will reopen prior to the recent lockdown due to low gambling activity in there casino towards the covid-19 lockdown. This is always the dilemma of country that has a huge gambling economy. They are now risking the health of there citizen just to get back again the profit from there gambling business. I think this will make worst there current covid-19 situation.

I think what the Macau government is doing is not worsening the Covid situation that was troubling there. Although I can't find any more news regarding casino restrictions in Macau, I think the local government has managed to deal with the Covid case that was disturbing and closed all casinos on July 11 yesterday.  

It looks like the casino activity is back to normal after it opened last July 23 until now. However, the recovery of the gambling industry's income there will not immediately recover, at least it will take the next few months.
So, in my opinion, the disturbing Covid case in Macau has been handled by the government.

That is true, the government of Macau made a good choice to have a plan after the worldwide spread of Covid-19, surely the setbacks are affecting the residents there due to the lockdown implemented which makes their situations to live more hard. Fortunately, they endured so far because they are now slowly going back to normal as the casinos there are already operating.

Macau didn't had a bad time either preventing the spread because their country is much smaller compared to Hong Kong and the people as well is not that many. They sure know what to do so that their lives will be back to normal much sooner than expected.

[Oilacris]

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Covid is already there for many years and provably the government protocols about how to fight or avoid these disease is been set up that's why for sure Macau government already been establish about this issues that's why they can decide to open up their economy back including the gambling industry on their country. Maybe its good to trust them on what they are doing if you are citizen of the said country since for sure the government do everything just to survive the crisis brought by this pandemic.

As a citizen then you wont really be having no choice yet you couldnt able to contradict on what the government decisions might be or would be and since they are the ones who do impose rules and

regulation then you wont really be having no power to alter nor change it.They do know on what they are doing and just like been said by lots of people that they've been depending on gambling revenue

knowing Macau's reputation and popularity when it comes to gambling.They have done such stuffs about health protocols back in the past which this situation isnt something new.

[edgycorner]

Covid is already there for many years and provably the government protocols about how to fight or avoid these disease is been set up that's why for sure Macau government already been establish about this issues that's why they can decide to open up their economy back including the gambling industry on their country. Maybe its good to trust them on what they are doing if you are citizen of the said country since for sure the government do everything just to survive the crisis brought by this pandemic.

Naa, you can't trust CCP. Ever since Xi Jinping came into power, China has seen a steep decline. In its progress and policies.
Their lockdown protocol is just another failed policy. They keep on enforcing it to save their face. Apparently CCP thinks that any kind of reform would seem like a declaration of fault in their system.

China doesn't have a government, they have a circus with clowns running the show.

[Boristhecat]

I think that the health of local residents will suffer much more if the restrictions continue to work and the economy continues to stagnate. In my opinion, in 2022 it is no longer relevant to talk about the dangers of the virus, since it has mutated into a much milder form than before and has become no more dangerous than a common cold. Life goes on as usual and there is always some risk, but you can not endlessly "safely" sit at home and do nothing.

You would really be dead when you do starve to death just because of these quarantines or isolation and we've seen such condition or situation and people are really protesting against it or trying out to

appeal that there should be at least some consideration because government aide or support isnt really enough for their living but now we've seen that things turns back to normal gradually.

For a country same as Macau which do heavily rely on gambling tax revenue then it would really be just normal that they would really be making such actions.

All countries that have tried to implement a zero-contamination policy have suffered, no matter how focused they are on gambling. This can't work for any country in my opinion, since people's normal lives mean they move around in space to do work and get paid for it. What surprises me most of all is that it has already been found out in practice that such measures do not work, but for some reason their introduction is being discussed again.

[Mauser]

Do you think the government of Macau made the right decision or they are very desperate not to shut down the casino operations
because they need their economy going.

Yes I think Macau made the right decision to leave the casinos open. When a whole city depends heavily on the casino revenues you can't just close everything down. The tax income for the city is one thing, but what about all the people who work in the tourist and gambling industry. They require their monthly paychecks to survive and can't stay in lockdown for a long time. And there are also the professional gamblers who work in the casino, many of them come from USA or Europe and got used to the gambling landscape in Macau. Switching overnight to an online gambling setup is hard. Closing down the casinos also affect the people who planned to visit Macau, who booked their flights, hotels and took vacation. It's been so long now we are dealing with covid, it shouldn't affect our lives so drastically anymore where a whole city is going on lockdown. Also casinos prepared themselves against the pandemic with new air filters being installed and using plastic shields to protect gamblers and dealers.