Las Vegas mayor won't give businesses guidelines for reopening: 'That's their job'

[dalton99a]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/22/politics/las-vegas-mayor-social-distancing-cnntv/index.html

Las Vegas mayor won't give businesses social distancing guidelines for reopening: 'They better figure it out. That's their job'
By Paul LeBlanc, CNN
Updated 3:59 PM ET, Wed April 22, 2020



(CNN) Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday repeatedly called for the city's businesses to reopen while refusing to provide any social distancing guidelines on how to do so safely.

"I am not a private owner. That's the competition in this country. The free enterprise and to be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public," Goodman, an independent, told CNN's Anderson Cooper.

"Right now, we're in a crisis health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That's their job. That's not the mayor's job."

Goodman's comments come as more states plan phased reopenings of their economies following new guidance from President Donald Trump -- even as public health experts have repeatedly stressed the dangers of relaxing social distancing measures too early.

[lapfog_1]

1. Ah the heart and soul of a true Libertarian

no heart... no soul

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Beyond That

She's a Randian nutjob.
I watched that interview with Cooper.
Her mind has taken a walk off the map!

[TreasonousBastard]

2. That IS the mayor's job!

[uppityperson]

3. Because what happens in one business will never affect anyone else?

Idiot.

[Midnight Writer]

4. What if we open the businesses and nobody comes?

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Anyone who goes out partying right now,

in Vegas or anywhere else, is a fool

[Mike 03]

7. Carolyn Goodman's Lessons in Leadership

I can't believe the incompetence and cowardice we are witnessing. So many of these people did anything to achieve levels of power and have no clue what to do with it, except maybe get rich on the side.