Las Vegas mayor slammed for suggesting workers could be COVID-19 'control group'

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Las Vegas casino and restaurant workers have pushed back on Mayor Carolyn Goodman's repeated calls to reopen the city's economy, and now local labor unions are outraged after she admitted in a nationally televised interview to suggesting laborers serve as virtual lab rats to determine whether stay-at-home orders really worked in combating the coronavirus.

Goodman, 81, a three-term mayor, began plugging her desire to reopen city businesses in an interview with ABC Las Vegas affiliate KTNV-TV, saying, "In my opinion, you have to go ahead." She added, "Every day you get up, it's a gamble."

In subsequent interviews, Goodman's doubled down on calls to put people back to work, telling MSNBC this week, "Let the businesses open, and competition will destroy that business if, in fact, they become evident that they have the disease."

But on Wednesday night, Goodman prompted additional backlash by telling CNN's Anderson Cooper that she floated the idea of Las Vegas workers becoming a "control group" in an experiment to determine the effectiveness of social distancing measures. As of Thursday, more than 4,200 people in Nevada had been infected with COVID-19, and 189 had died.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/las-vegas-mayor-slammed-for-suggesting-workers-could-be-covid-19-control-group/ar-BB136TTk?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. Something else about Goodman's fairy tale peddling

Does she think that folks from all over the country would come flocking in to the Las Vegas Strip to fill the casinos? Does she think that all the canceled conventions and meetings would un-cancel and the folks who had scheduled this time would just pick up and go?

Really people: Quit electing delusional meatheads.

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2. Joseph Mengele would be proud.

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3. let's see the informed consent forms n/t

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4. I'd say its time for a new mayor. This surprises me about Vegas...I thought Vegas was ...

far more smarter than this, letting a moron like her run the mayor's office. What happened?

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5. She won't get re-elected.

Crises tend to bring out the critical thinking skills of elected officials, or lack thereof. No one knew she had trumpian levels of idiocy.

Her only qualification was being the wife of ex-mayor Oscar Goodman who termed out after years of unprecedented growth in Vegas. She was seen as a continuation of his term, and the mayor's role is largely ceremonial as an ambassador for the city (no jurisdiction over "the strip" as it's in Clark County, not the city limits. There are the older, smaller casinos downtown in the city though).

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6. Thank you for the info.! Take care.