Watch Vegas Mayor Advocate Survival of the Fittest Reopening Strategy, With Total Disregard for Human Life – By Peter Wade (Rolling Stone) / April 21 2020
“Well, we’ll find out the facts after [we reopen the city]. Unfortunately, we all do better in hindsight,” Mayor Carolyn Goodman said
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has made news of late for calling Nevada’s coronavirus shutdown “total insanity,” but following a Tuesday cable news interview, it’s Goodman’s sanity that should be questioned.
The Independent mayor made wild health assertions while making her case for a reopening of Vegas during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, saying, “What I assume is that everybody is a coronavirus carrier — that 100% of our population is asymptomatic, but a carrier.” Goodman continued, “My whole opinion is: get our people back to work.”
Goodman said that the city needs to protect people’s health while reopening, adding, “Most importantly, take care of our elderly, who are the most susceptible to having a terrible experience or perhaps even dying. And we love our seniors. I happen to be a senior!”
Tur asked how can that protection can be preserved when an open and successful Vegas means crowded casinos with smokers, people touching slot machines, and breathing recycled air, seemingly making it all more susceptible to the coronavirus.
“How do you keep people safe? Do you think it’s possible?” Kur asked.
“Well, absolutely,” Goodman answered, The mayor then rattled off a list of previous epidemics that did not close Vegas without using any context or expressing any knowledge as to why those should compare to the extreme contagion the coronavirus has proven to be.
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