More from the Too Much, Too Soon? file: MGM Resorts International, despite its long pause in reopening The Mirage has evidently decided it jumped the gun. Hotel rooms there and at Mandalay Bay will be closed Mondays-Thursdays through December at minimum. Heck, even giddy Caesars Entertainment CEO Tom Reeg is only reopening The Rio on a four-nights-a-week basis. Restaurants and “amenities” (read: gambling) at M’Bay and The Mirage will remain open week ’round, of course. The Delano is unaffected by the changes, as is Shark Reef Aquarium. (Need to de-stress? Watch the sea turtles for a while. Works every time.) Meanwhile, from his sickbed, Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) warned darkly of new restrictions. Faced with runaway infections, Sisolak said, “My administration is exploring all mitigation options available to get this under control, while walking a tightrope to balance public health and economic impacts. The goal is to have the most impact on mitigating the spread and the least impact on our fragile economy.” Obviously “all mitigation options” would have to include re-closing the casinos … but what would that do to “our fragile economy”? Based on the examples of Iceland and New Zealand, the obvious solution would be to discourage tourism to the greatest extent possible—but at what price? What gets infected outside Vegas stays in Vegas, sad to say.
Las Vegas casinos are the smokers last stand, if they ban smoking in casinos the life expectancy of the employee’s will immediately rise… There are not many things you can in life that can make that kind of a positive impact, give casino employee’s more time with the grandkids. make more of them great grandparents, to achieve that all you have to do is move smokers outside, they are used to having to do that…