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Old 04-14-2020, 06:19 PM
 
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Do you guys think the nightclubs will be open by June of this year?
Oonce-Oonce-Oonce

I'm going to say it's a long shot.
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Old 04-14-2020, 06:22 PM
 
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It doesn't take much to win a Pulitzer.
Senile also known as Senile dementia is the mental deterioration (loss of intellectual ability) that is associated with or the characteristics of old age.
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Old 04-14-2020, 10:23 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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I've heard rumours that the strip will be closed most of the year. Hopefully this is not the case and I'd be surprised if that were to happen.
Las Vegas is so dependent on tourism & entertainment along & near the Strip that any kind of restrictions on businesses can wreck havoc on the economy. A nearly inactive Strip for even a month or two will have too many long term negative impacts. If some of the speculations are true about hot weather being a deterrent to this virus, then Vegas should be back in full operation by June or July ... and then all you'll have to worry about is small scale medical issues like heat stroke.
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If you're looking for a success story try Taiwan's approach. They handed out 10M masks in December and didn't have to shut down their country despite being close to the outbreak. They had mass testing and contact tracing and learned from the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Apparently they didn't learn, because there is no vaccine for SARS ... and if there were, then it possibly could have prevented or even controlled COVID 19 since the two are related. I'm not saying it's all one particular country's fault, but the warning signs were in place over 15 years ago and weren't heeded.
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Old 04-14-2020, 10:37 PM
 
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Las Vegas is so dependent on tourism & entertainment along & near the Strip that any kind of restrictions on businesses can wreck havoc on the economy. A nearly inactive Strip for even a month or two will have too many long term negative impacts. If some of the speculations are true about hot weather being a deterrent to this virus, then Vegas should be back in full operation by June or July ... and then all you'll have to worry about is small scale medical issues like heat stroke.
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Apparently they didn't learn, because there is no vaccine for SARS ... and if there were, then it possibly could have prevented or even controlled COVID 19 since the two are related. I'm not saying it's all one particular country's fault, but the warning signs were in place over 15 years ago and weren't heeded.
Plenty of blame
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...dried-n1150091
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Old 04-14-2020, 10:53 PM
 
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Las Vegas is so dependent on tourism & entertainment along & near the Strip that any kind of restrictions on businesses can wreck havoc on the economy. A nearly inactive Strip for even a month or two will have too many long term negative impacts. If some of the speculations are true about hot weather being a deterrent to this virus, then Vegas should be back in full operation by June or July ... and then all you'll have to worry about is small scale medical issues like heat stroke.
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Hasn't the Las Vegas economy diversified in recent years though beyond tourism/entertainment?
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Old 04-14-2020, 11:24 PM
 
Location: East Central Phoenix
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Hasn't the Las Vegas economy diversified in recent years though beyond tourism/entertainment?
Yes it has, but not all that much. Vegas is still largely reliant on casinos, entertainment, and nightlife for its economic backbone. Tourists flock there primarily for those reasons. Sure, Vegas has grown into a large city and has come a long way since the Rat Pack days, but it would probably be little more than a dot on the map if it wasn't for the casinos/hotels/entertainment which made Vegas famous.
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Old 04-14-2020, 11:47 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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New Zealand is taking a similar approach. Zero foreigners are allowed in. If you are a foreigner, you are on lockdown, period. The only exception is to go to the airport and leave the country.
Jacinda Ardern acted really fast, made the right moves and the entire country basically has her back. I don't think anyone comes close to her when it comes to running a country, not just because of the current crisis, but past events also.

Their country did have lax gun laws, until some psycho (Australian) shot up a mosque full of people. Now semi-automatic and military-style weapons are banned. Makes, sense, doesn't it?
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Old 04-14-2020, 11:51 PM
 
Location: Las Vegas
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Yes it has, but not all that much. Vegas is still largely reliant on casinos, entertainment, and nightlife for its economic backbone. Tourists flock there primarily for those reasons. Sure, Vegas has grown into a large city and has come a long way since the Rat Pack days, but it would probably be little more than a dot on the map if it wasn't for the casinos/hotels/entertainment which made Vegas famous.
There's also going to be a lot of "collateral damage". Things that aren't directly connected to the tourism/entertainment industry are going to suffer as well. What happens when half of the population of Las Vegas lose their jobs, they stop buying stuff or they leave the state... who's going to want to come to a town with no jobs? Then other businesses go out of business, etc, etc.

We are pretty much farrked
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Old 04-15-2020, 04:15 AM
 
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All 3 of those papers are widely known to be tabloids which means they lack journalistic integrity.

Pardon me, apparently the independent is still considered a broadsheet

Its quite hard to keep up when you even contradict yourself one sentence to the other.
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Old 04-15-2020, 04:29 AM
 
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It goes much further back than that.

In 2007 a paper by hong kong university specifically warned about this

https://cmr.asm.org/content/cmr/20/4...ACwhupHa-buWu8


The study concludes with

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The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with
the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time
bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other
novel viruses from animals or laboratories an

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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS, Oct. 2007

Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of
Emerging and Reemerging Infection

State Key Laboratory of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Research Centre of Infection and Immunology, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China
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