{"id":26611,"date":"2020-04-01T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T17:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=26611"},"modified":"2020-10-16T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:09:45","slug":"its-better-than-it-looks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/its-better-than-it-looks\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s better than it looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ItE7Q_USZpU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Charlton Heston<\/strong> in <em>The Omega Man<\/em> would feel right at home in contemporary <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>. The lights are on but literally no one&#8217;s home. Or rather, <em>everyone&#8217;s<\/em> at home, sheltering in place\u2014except that one guy seen getting busted by <strong>Las Vegas Metro<\/strong>. News reports take on hints of the post-apocalyptic, whether it&#8217;s coyotes roaming the streets of <strong>San Francisco<\/strong> or rats swarming the pool area at <strong>Trump Plaza<\/strong> (well, that place was always dystopian).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QqhNmLe7GEg\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Writes one <strong>Denver<\/strong> resident, \u201cI never thought I would see a global pandemic in my lifetime. It\u2019s so eerie to see my home city empty, so many people are scared. Anxiety is <!--more-->starting to get bad.\u201d It&#8217;s understandable why people would feel that way after looking at drone videos of deserted streets in <strong>Boston<\/strong> and <strong>New York City<\/strong>, from <strong>Houston<\/strong> to <strong>Chicago<\/strong>. It gives a whole new meaning to the term &#8220;viral video.&#8221; But here&#8217;s the good news: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2020\/04\/01\/nation\/shutdowns-stay-at-home-orders-may-be-slowing-spread-coronavirus-new-data-show\/?s_campaign=breakingnews:newsletter\">Seclusion is working<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to today&#8217;s <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, &#8220;Even while the number of positive test results continues to climb in <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong>, the pace of the increase has appeared to stabilize. Similarly, while the number of COVID-<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/massachusetts-quarter-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/massachusetts-quarter-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/massachusetts-quarter-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/massachusetts-quarter.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>19 patients hospitalized at <strong>Massachusetts General Hospital<\/strong> continues to rise, the increase has been more gradual in recent days, although it is too early to be called a trend, according to the chief of infectious disease, Dr. <strong>Rochelle Walensky<\/strong>.&#8221; (Massachusetts has some of the most stringent shelter-in-place measures.) Data-crunching company <strong>Kinsa<\/strong> told the <em>New York Times<\/em> that &#8220;since social distancing directives have taken hold, flu-like illnesses have decreased throughout much of the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would like to have all of this confirmed, but it might bring a small smile to your face during a generally dark time,\u201d said <strong>Vanderbilt University Medical Center<\/strong>&#8216;s Dr. <strong>William Schaffner<\/strong>. Added Dr. <strong>Anthony Fauci<\/strong>, Cassandra of\u00a0the Covid-19 crisis,\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re starting to see glimmers that that is actually having some dampening effect.\u00a0But that does not take away from the seriousness.&#8221; So, yes, the good times will return if we can all exercise patience\u2014and fiscal restraint, <strong>Wall Street<\/strong>\u2014in the interim, however long it may be. As Bay State Gov. <strong>Charlie Baker<\/strong> (R) concludes,\u00a0\u201cThe next couple of weeks are going to be critical in this battle.\u00a0Everyone needs to play their part. People need to stay home as much as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlton Heston in The Omega Man would feel right at home in contemporary Las Vegas. The lights are on but literally no one&#8217;s home. Or rather, everyone&#8217;s at home, sheltering in place\u2014except that one guy seen getting busted by Las &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/its-better-than-it-looks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,51,283,189,112,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28350,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26611\/revisions\/28350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}