Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman speaks to CNN’s Anderson Cooper (screen capture)
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.”
On Tuesday, during an interview with MSNBC’s Katy Tur, Goodman said, “What I assume is that everybody is a coronavirus carrier — that 100% of our population is asymptomatic, but a carrier. My whole opinion is: get our people back to work.” Goodman added, ”Assume everybody is a carrier. And then you start from an even slate. And tell the people what to do. And let the businesses open and competition will destroy that business if, in fact, they become evident that they have disease, they’re closed down. It’s that simple.”
Mayor Goodman, pushing to reopen Las Vegas, says the city has survived diseases such as E. coli and bird flu.@KatyTurNBC: “Those were not as contagious.”
Goodman: “We’ll find out the facts afterwards.”
Tur: “Those are the facts; we have a death toll that proves it.” pic.twitter.com/8iN0EqExJ0— MSNBC (@MSNBC) April 21, 2020
The problem with that approach is, of course, it can take weeks for it to become evident a restaurant or casino has become an epicenter for the disease. Cooper and Goodman spoke for a lengthy 15 minutes that seemed to ricochet from angle to angle. Nearly halfway through the segment, Cooper attempted to explain how businesses in China are rearranging seating to try and tamp down infections, but as he brought up a graphic of a seating arrangement, Goodman replied, “This isn’t China, this is Las Vegas.” Cooper could only offer up, “Wow, that’s really ignorant.”
Anderson Cooper: You’re talking about encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to come to Las Vegas … smoking, drinking, touching slot machines, breathing circulated air, doesn’t that sound like a virus petri dish?!
Las Vegas Mayor: It sounds like you’re being an alarmist! pic.twitter.com/meAlEMpntl
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 22, 2020
Cooper: Chinese researchers have shown how this virus spreads
Mayor: You are tough. This isn’t China, this is Las Vegas, Nevada.
Cooper: Wow, OK, that’s really ignorant. That’s an ignorant, ignorant statement. That’s a restaurant, yes in China, but they are human beings too. pic.twitter.com/w1Ec00jsIl
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas Mayor offers city as “control group”, “we offer to be a control group” to see how many people die without social distancing. pic.twitter.com/NESE2hActE
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
BRAVO to Anderson Cooper for exposing the selfish, ignorant stupidity of Las Vegas Mayor Goodman, who somehow thinks it’s OK to expose visitors and citizens to virtual petri dishes by reopening too early.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) April 22, 2020
“We’ve had viruses for years” — Las Vegas mayor Goodman is completely oblivious to the reality that coronavirus is mainly a public health crisis & not just a business problem. It’s amazing people like this get elected to positions of great responsibility. pic.twitter.com/KdA0s21Bey
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas Mayor says time to reopen the city, let private businesses compete for which business can drive the least viral spread. pic.twitter.com/E00wH6Yv74
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) April 22, 2020
The Mayor of Las Vegas @mayoroflasvegas didn’t do herself any favors with that interview with Anderson Cooper. Ma’am, you can’t call for opening casinos and hotels without a plan to keep your citizens safe. Their safety is your job. pic.twitter.com/B69XPRqzTA
— MidwestCharm (@voter_indie) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is on CNN calling for people to flock there.
Anderson Cooper asks: What about social distancing?
Goodman: Casinos will figure that out.
Cooper: Won’t tourists spread the virus?
Goodman: People know when they’re sick.
(Um, asymptomatic carriers)— Mark Jacob (@MarkJacob16) April 22, 2020
Las Vegas mayor Carolyn Goodman, who has been openly advocating for Vegas casinos and hotels to completely open up, literally tells Anderson Cooper she has no responsibility to figure out how to do it safely.
“It is up to them!” pic.twitter.com/d9LDRZX9Sl
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) April 22, 2020
So the mayor of Las Vegas is on CNN right now going full batshit crackpot. Whoa.
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) April 22, 2020
Discover more from The Randy Report
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.