Las Vegas mayor taking what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas to a new level.
Las Vegas Mayor calling for everything to be open - hotels, casinos, stadiums
@andersoncooper: how would you do that?
Mayor: I don& #39;t know....that& #39;s their job that& #39;s not the mayor& #39;s job.
#covid19
#LasVegas Mayor intv
@andersoncooper: You& #39;re talking about encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to come to Las Vegas & then returning home . Doesn& #39;t that sound like a virus petri dish?
Mayor: That sounds like you& #39;re being alarmist.
#covid19
This @andersoncooper intv with the #LasVegas interview is blowing my mind.
You& #39;re the mayor of Vegas and you& #39;re calling for them to open but you are doing nothing to improve safety.
Mayor: That& #39;s for scientists and fact.
Cooper: but every scientists says we need #covid19 testing
#LasVegas Mayor Goodman then says you can trust the government with testing because the 50s...? And maintains that it& #39;s not her job to get testing and she& #39;s questioning the governor& #39;s plan to ensure testing first.
#covid19
When showing the mayor research from China that the virus could spread in restaurants via air circulation
Mayor Goodman: "This isn& #39;t china."
@andersoncooper: "Wow that was really ignorant."
Mayor speaking of this virus... this is part of life.
#covid19
Now @andersoncooper is taking off his glasses.
He ain& #39;t got time for this.
But persists: I understand you care for your people financially hurting but you are calling for opening but doing nothing to improve safety for workers or customers or the health care system.
#covid19
#LasVegas: It& #39;s always about putting workers back to work in a city that wasn& #39;t broken that didn& #39;t have disease back to work.
@andersoncooper: but thousands are sick and 160+ died.
Mayor: I offered to be a control group but was told we can& #39;t be. I said that& #39;s too bad.
#covid19
. @andersoncooper to #LasVegas Mayor: Are you going to go to casinos every night and put yourself on the line with all the workers.
Mayor Goodman:150 people dying is tragic but we 2.3 million people here - we weren& #39;t broken.
#covid19
Now @andersoncooper speaking to Nevada @GovSisolak.
& #39;We are clearly not going to offer up #LasVegas as a control group.
We want to open everyone back but not today or tomorrow.
Most elected officials in state have only tried to help testing, tracing & open safely.& #39;
#covid19
Nevada @GovSisolak saying since the interview with #lasvegasmayor goodman now 187 people have died (37 more than she died).
Scientists and the virus, he says, will decide when and how we open.
He and #LasVegas unions say workers will not be petri dishes.
#covid19
Nevada @GovSisolak breaking down, tearing up talking about ppl in #LasVegas & the state who have died, those dying alone, those not seeing loved ones before they die - how difficult & disappointing to have a leader in the state is leading people away from protection.
#covid19
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