Las Vegas : Shutdown of city Is "total insanity," reopen casinos until death rate gets too high

[Saint1]

They recirculate the air in those casinos. This could turn into a shytshow

You ain't lying

Air-conditioning spread the coronavirus to 9 people sitting near an infected person in a restaurant, researchers say. It has huge implications for the service industry.

• In an early-release research letter in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers said they found that nine people sitting near one another at a restaurant in China in January got COVID-19, the illness caused by the coronavirus, and that it likely spread because of the restaurant's air-conditioner.
• The authors advised restaurants to increase the distance between tables and improve ventilation.
• As restaurants look to reopen, experts say they will need to take extra safety measures, such as reducing capacity, having employees wear masks, and capping how long diners can stay there.
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Three seemingly healthy families were struck by COVID-19 in January after dining at neighboring tables in a windowless restaurant in Guangzhou, China.

Researchers studying the case think that the restaurant's air-conditioner blew the viral droplets of one person who was asymptomatic farther than they might have normally gone. Nine other people across the three families later got sick.

The researchers described their findings in an early-release research letter published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases earlier this month. You can see a diagram of the seating plan here.

It's a frightening prospect for people trying to keep a healthy distance from others. But in a potentially hopeful finding for the locked-down restaurant industry, none of the 73 other diners and eight employees in the restaurant at the time got sick, the researchers added.

"To prevent the spread of the virus in restaurants, we recommend increasing the distance between tables and improving ventilation," they wrote.

For the struggling restaurants desperate to reopen in the coming months, the researchers' findings are evidence that work will not just return to normal after the pandemic, but there might be ways to limit the risk of spreading the virus. There will likely be caps on how long patrons can spend eating, restaurants will operate at lower capacity, air-conditioning or heating may have to stay off, and employees might be advised to wear masks.

Researchers think the source of this outbreak was a 63-year-old woman who did not show symptoms — such as a fever and a cough — until later in the day. She went to a hospital and tested positive for COVID-19.

Within two weeks, four of her relatives had also gotten sick, as did five other diners in two other families, who seemed to have no other connection except for their time in the restaurant.

It surprised the researchers, since the novel coronavirus is transmitted by droplets, or heavy particles that tend not to float farther than 1 meter, and the families were sitting farther apart than that. They said it seemed that the air-conditioning could have blown the viral droplets farther.

The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the pandemic
Since March 1, the restaurant industry has lost over 3 million jobs, the National Restaurant Association said. And one in five US restaurants could close permanently because of the pandemic, according to a UBS estimate.

The National Restaurant Association this week asked Congress for $240 billion to help the struggling industry.

While most Americans have indicated they want to wait before resuming their daily routines, opening up restaurants means reopening a supply chain for restaurateurs, farmers, produce sellers, cooks, and servers.

Restaurants will need new rules when they reopen, but it could vary by state
The researchers who studied the outbreak at the Guangzhou restaurant did not replicate the phenomenon in a lab, and they don't have other cases to compare it to, so their findings have to be taken with a grain of salt.

But William Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said the research letter was a good resource to help us understand what restaurant reopenings would look like.

"We are going to open back up," Schaffner said. "But the trick will be to open slowly, do it in a phased fashion," he said, including "opening restaurants and doing so at half capacity, spacing out the seats."

It's unclear whether spacing and capacity rules could do the trick, though it's highly likely they would be employed anyway — and we could start to see rural areas, which generally haven't been hit as hard by the virus as cities, try them first.

Schaffner, who lives in Tennessee, which had about 7,300 coronavirus cases as of Tuesday, said he had seen the mounting pressure for restaurants to reopen.

Jennifer Horney, the founding director of the University of Delaware's epidemiology program, told Business Insider that she foresees a slow relaxation of states' or regions' emergency orders, which would allow restaurants to reopen with some tweaks to traditional service. Eating out in a state with relaxed guidelines might include paying through touchless methods, using disposable menus, and seeing staff members wearing face masks and gloves.

Scientists say restaurants should reduce capacity when they reopen, but it may be a hard rule to enforce
Horney said that rather than creating restrictions, such as banning air-conditioning or outdoor dining, restaurants might find it easier and just as effective to adapt existing rules, such as those about room capacity.

"Existing regulations, like fire-code occupancy numbers, could be used to set a maximum number, like 25% of usual occupancy, that could be safely served at any time," Horney said.

But Schaffner was skeptical about how to ensure that restaurants adhere to capacity rules.

"Some restaurants will say, 'Listen, we're getting a lot of business. Let's just open up a few more tables. The COVID police are not going to catch us tonight,'" he said.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

GOP like fukk it they all in until Nov because they know it’s a wrap for them

 

[23Barrettcity]

These people aren’t realistic a lot of sane people are going to stay away from all these places and lead to less money coming in and layoffs and closures .

 

[Absolut]

Are you stupid? The mafia still plays a background role casino/gambling industry in Vegas. They also get a cut out of major boxing events.

As if organized crime doesn’t exist in LAS VEGAS. You really are out of touch and obtuse


@itsyoung!! look at this moron.

They do not, at all. It ain’t the 70s. They’ve been phased out here for decades

 

[Wiseborn]

Tons of Asian tourists and open buffets.

What could go wrong?

That's another thing They depend on asians if they can't come that's a huge hole. I remember I was in Biloxi at a casino ( I came in primarily to withdraw a large amount of money from the ATM and in that one horse town there was an asian baccarat table with a ten K limit ( mean you had to have ten grand to even play) All over the world they depend on asian gamblers.

 

[Amor fati]

They do not, at all. It ain’t the 70s. They’ve been phased out here for decades

That's what I also assumed.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

Not smart, and the tourists aren’t going to return like that, but I bet you have numerous people in the city wanting them to atleast try. A lot of those workers in that city probably agree with the state governments decision to open things back up.

Unemployment is moving slow, some don’t have any money coming in at all, and those bills are still piling up. Somethings gotta shake.

 

[sfgiants]

What the fukk makes them think that if they opened that people will run back to the casinos? There's at least 22 million people unemployed now, Who wants to leave the mortgage check at the craps table?

Degenerate gamblers will be there on day one

 

[ORDER_66]

Open the WHOLE COUNTRY!!


If you die......you die

cacs gon cac...

 

[Dorian Breh]

The human sacrifices will continue until the invisible hand is satisfied

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

CACs are inherently evil. The earth needs to eradicate itself of the CAC virus. Anything else we can deal with. Rid the CACs and the world will be fine.

Morally corrupt bloodthirsty demonic vermin.

 

[focusloco]

Tons of bread being lost in Vegas. The mob is pissed and putting state officials on notice I’m sure. Not to mention casino owners, bartenders, clubs, tourist attractions.




The mob ain’t playing. They’re putting pressure on her. My boy from Vegas tells me they have their hands in EVERYTHING out their. Russian/Armenian/Italians mafias.

The movie Casino addressed this issue 25 years ago...Tony the ant Spilotro isn't walking thru that door in 2020

 

[Astroslik]

They do not, at all. It ain’t the 70s. They’ve been phased out here for decades

You’re wrong breh. But we’ll agree to disagree.

I have actual prosecutors and lawyers out in vegas telling me this information but you seem more informed than them. Maybe you know something they don’t.

The movie Casino addressed this issue 25 years ago...Tony the ant Spilotro isn't walking thru that door in 2020

Did you just name a largely fictional movie and a character from a fictional show to further your point?

I'm done

 

[Kokoro]

If they reopen too early the death rates will rise even more and they'll have to close again. They're going to lose revenue either way why is that so hard for these cacs to understand?

Exactly. Simple concept of pay me now or pay me later

But as we’ve seen some people in this country need a worst case scenario to truly understand

 

[Afro]

Idk man, Americans are so dumb, they'd probably demand everyone be injected with coronavirus so we can go back to work first

Ay, don't put that energy out there