There are occasions on which we hate to be proven right but the current state of events in Las Vegas is one of them. For instance, two individuals have tested positive for Covid-19 at the Flamingo Las Vegas. Since the virus has an incubation period of two weeks, whoever it was brought it to the Flamingo with them. This comes on the heels of a temporary closing at Bellagio‘s Mayfair Supper Club after a kitchen worker got sick. (Whatever happened to screening employees before they returned to work?)
The Nevada Gaming Control Board responded to an escalating number of Coronavirus cases—342 new ones last Tuesday—by tightening its constraints on mask-wearing. Casinos are now required to offer masks to guests and players at table games will have to wear them if there is no partition between themselves on the dealer. Casino patrons have been widely seen flouting social-distancing protocols, with The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas taking a particularly cavalier attitude toward patron safety.
Gaming Control can see that there is no future if Las Vegas gets a reputation for infecting visitors, and there is no work force if employee’s lives are lost… Nevada has a reputation for letting folks do whatever they want to, but we are now in a situation where someone’s “freedom” is to the detriment of others, which is unsustainable, those videos of inside The Cosmopolitan were jarring, they woke up the powers that be…
It’s interesting that the FSE is not allowed to have bands, yet the street performers are allowed, as some of those always attract a crowd of people around them.
Its pretty simple, if you really need to go to Vegas, or any casino for that matter. wear a mask. No big deal. Don’t smoke. Protect not just yourself, but others. If this keeps up, I would bet the casinos get shut down again.
My understanding is they did screen before hand these are all new cases.