Vegas Mayor Faces Recall After Offering City as Coronavirus 'Control Group'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Newsweek



Daniel Villarreal 10 hrs ago

Doug Polk, a former professional poker player, has taken the first step to starting a recall petition that could oust Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman after she offered her city up as a "control group" to see if quickly reopening businesses would result in new coronavirus infections.

On Wednesday, Polk visited the city clerk's office to file a notice of intent to circulate a recall petition. He must now collect 6,745 signatures from registered voters who took part in last year's municipal primary election by Aug. 4.

If he succeeds, the city would hold a mayoral recall election to let voters decide whether to remove Goodman.

"[Goodman has] failed to responsibly represent her constituency, not only in her clear disregard for public health, but also in her support for the casino owners over the people of Las Vegas," Polk said in a brief statement to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/vegas-mayor-faces-recall-after-offering-city-as-coronavirus-control-group/ar-BB13LKMw?li=BBnb7Kz

[catbyte]

1. This doesn't surprise me. She is a piece of work, all right.

[AllyCat]

2. That interview was unbelieveable, and yet, true.

Anderson Cooper...I literally don't know how he got through that. We watched the whole thing and that woman is clueless. How on earth is she the mayor of that city?

[lagomorph777]

6. She loves to gamble?

[Danascot]

3. We already have Sweden as a control group

It didn't work out so well. What's that thing about doing the same thing and expecting different results?

[rocktivity]

5. It didn't work out because they didn't include mass testing

Systemically detecting (and properly quarantining) the infected and contagious would have systemically reduced the number of people that the herd immunity of the uninfected would have had to "compete" with
https://yourhhrsnews.com/nj-mass-covid-test


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[lagomorph777]

7. So the whole USA is the control group.

[rocktivity]

10. Well, no, LOL -- New Zealand and South Korea have shown

that EARLY mass testing plus social distancing saves lives even faster.


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[rocktivity]

4. Possible Problems:

1) Vegas residents infecting each other
2) Vegas residents infecting their tourists
3) Vegas tourists being infected by Vegas residents or other Vegas tourists
4) Vegas tourists infected by Vegas residents or other Vegas tourists taking the virus "home" with them

Definite Solution:
There's a testing kit that uses saliva instead of blood or mucus, doesn't cost a lot, and is easy enough to reproduce to roll out nationally. This would make it possible to detect and properly quarantine the infected and contagious
https://yourhhrsnews.com/nj-mass-covid-test/


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[lagomorph777]

8. SSSsshhh...if Trump learns about that test he'll confiscate it.

[CaptYossarian]

9. She won't be recalled fondly.

There must be a connection with Sharron Angle somewhere.

[Sewa]

11. You go Doug!

Glad to see Doug is doing something positive with his free time. Maybe he should think about running for Mayor. Although he's probably to intelligent for the position. LV seems to have a history of stupid mayors.