Poll : 10 June - 23 June 2020

Doesn't cover every situation like;
In a couple of years when the pandemic is over and a cure developed, I might return to a casino.  Your 7th choice down doesn't cover that.

It sounds like Jackie is having another bad day. Those choices cover the necessary options at this time. 

Recently went to a local casino early in the morning (6am). I wore a mask, which prevented me from eating, drinking and smoking. That's OK; I can deal with that. But even at that early hour, when there were few guests, most guests did not wear masks.  I was surprised at how cavalier they were. Not too sure if I would go again, considering that.

It's not 'mask-wearing also boils down to people’s individual tolerance for risk'. It's more being considerate of others. When you wear a mask you're protecting others from you, not you are protecting yourself from others. You may think you don't have 'it' but you may be asymptomatic or have it without having symptoms yet and you can give it to someone who can get very sick and possibly die. I'm sure this will garner criticism from many but I will be wearing masks because I'm considerate of others and appreciate others doing the same for me. With that said I am in the high risk group and won't be going to a casino for a very long time. 

EVERYTHING has re-opened, which includes pools, restaurants, bars, lounges, fitness centers, spas, nightclubs, and entertainment venues. By the time everything has re-opened I doubt I'll need a mask.

I like to see the wearing of masks as similar to stopping for a red light.  The government told me I have to do it, and I do because it protects me as well as others.  Don't particularly want to get smacked by another car, and don't want to smack another! Ditto for coronavirus.

I have a lung issue--Pulmonary Fibrosis--which at this time is a minor inconvenience.  However it does make me a little more at risk should I get something.  So I will be wearing a mask at all times until this situation is resolved.  As one person commented the issue is that all of us should wear a mask as a consideration to the safety of others.

I agree 100% with Sandra. I learnt very early in my medical training that the reason for wearing masks was to prevent the doctors from infecting surgical wounds with the droplets that we all breathe out all the time. Exactly the same applies to masks and respiratory infections. Only properly fitted PPE protects the wearer from infection - a good test is that if you can smell / taste anything in the air you're breathing then your PPE mask doesn't have a proper seal (or you've already got Covid-19 and it's affected your sense of taste or smell!). Sorry to disillusion you Tom & Linda, but your masks aren't really protecting you, but they are helping to protect others if you're infected.

For Jackie's comment about choice #7 - it depends on your definition of 'safe'.  To me - that means a vaccine has been developed and is available - period.
Sandra hit it right on the head.  Masks are to reduce (not prevent) the spread to others.  I'm not sure why people can't be more considerate of others. What a simple thing to do.
And as far as when everything reopens we won't need to where a mask.  David, what universe are you living in?  If reopening everything will get rid of the virus, let's do it now!  
Reopening has nothing to do with getting rid of the virus and not needing masks.

Since Iowa opened last week, we went to the Illinois border. Considering the number of people in the casinos, it seemed safer than walking around in my own neighborhood. What I did NOT see was any staff cleaning machines after someone left them, so it was clear that you could easily be in contact with a machine that was just used. Masks mean very little if there is all sorts of other contact at the slot machines. However, more to the point, the situation, including medical advice, seems to change weekly. And government rules change just as often, so if you run this survey in one month, you may get drastically different answer. I'm sure if you ran this over a month ago, the answers might have been different than today.

better safe than sorry

I will visit my two local Caesars and MGM properties wearing a mask and hoping everyone else will be wearing one, too, at least once every six months so that I don’t lose my comp credits. How long I stay will depend on if everyone follows the rules in place at the time. 

My terrible breath causes my glasses to fog up when I wear a mask. Add liquor to the foggy goggles and I might be completely blind to the losses adding up! 

for me, I have no interest in wearing a mask.  i'm not a smoker and really not even a drinker, I just don't like wearing it.  I also believe that although covid is real, it has been politicized.  I have a reservation at harrahs in two weeks, if they don't drop the requirement of wearing masks at tables by then, I will use my other reservation at nyny

I can wear a mask inside the casinos and smoke out side!

I will not wear a maskPeriod.

Not listed was, "I'm a thoughtless, inconsiderate moron and won't wear a mask, ever ever ever and YOU CAN'T MAKE ME."

No, I'm not going to put down the folks who don't want to wear masks. I'm referring to "the Powers That Be", including the CDC. Ever since the CDC began issuing statements, they've been changing their story, because they began just as ignorant about COVID-19 as the rest of us, and every wave of info that came in, contradicted what they said. And remember that stupid rule from March that said to go ahead and meet in groups but not more than 10 people? (As if keeping a group that small would prevent the transmission of the virus.) Notice how no "official" entity is saying that now? We all need to admit that we are slowing learning about the virus but still don't know all about it. Some people are going to take chances because they really want to do what they want to do, be it smoking, driving-while-drunk, Wallenda-izing, playing "chicken" (cars zooming towards each other while in each other's path), etc. The choice to not wear a mask in a casino is just one more example. Best of luck!

Steve Crouse, where you staying? I ask because I will make sure not to go there. Good Luck with your, and those around you, health.

I am at high risk due to COPD and I will not go into a casino unmasked or where anyone else (including employees) is unmasked AND until my Doctor says it's OK. For one thing, I find using a portable oxygenater AND a mask very difficult.

Sandra and others.  Check out what may be the first of its kind study on masks and Covid19.  It showed that wearing a surgical mask can cut your chance of getting infected by 1/2 and lower the severity of it.  If someone who is contagious and is wearing a surgical mask, it cuts your chance of being infected by 75%.  I have seen studies that show that some 3 layer masks can be as or more effective than a surgical mask.  So wear it for others and yourself.  Right now, its a way to lower R naught and deaths.

A lot has transpired since this poll was first posted on 6/10/2020.  You can't change a vote once voted, but some minds may be changed.

Restrictions to contain the virus have been loosened; congregating of large unmasked crowds; and now, not unexpectedly, a second wave/spike whatever you want to call it of COVID-19 transmissions (and deaths) in a lot of states (mine included).  Masking and distancing and hand hygiene are still the only protections we have.  I'm wearing the mask and doing the distancing and hand hygiene everywhere, even if not required by the proprietor.  You can't really count on others, you can only count on yourself.

give up on the mask, did you wear the mask when it was flu season? 

As you can see by this survey,"I won’t enter a casino where masks for guests are mandatory.", this 10% are the reason why the virus will live on for months.These self-centered people only care about themselves.

Suggest a poll on 3-6 months asking if any of those so vehemently against wearing a mask might have ended up with it.  Most probably wouldn't admit it.  Maybe not following the GOLDEN RULE will catch up to them.