Posted on 04/19/2020 12:47:24 PM PDT by abb
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Wynn Resorts has not yet announced a date to reopen its properties, but in preparing to do so, the company has unveiled a health and safety plan.
In a statement posted on their website, Wynn announced that it has developed a “comprehensive health safety program” detailed in a 20-page summary.
“We have worked closely with a team of leading medical and public health professions on a program that is based on the most effective health safety practices available and, just as important, is clear and transparent to our guests.”
The health safety program includes daily health practices for employees including:
temperature checks, wearing PPEs, physical distancing by at least six feet, using hand sanitizer, hourly hand washing
More employee responsibilities are further explained in the plan.
The program also details how guests will be treated. According to the plan, a Wynn security officer will greet every visitor. Guests will be screened, asked to use hand sanitizer and wear a mask, which the resort will provide.
Wynn Resorts CEO Matt Maddox also released six steps that outline his ideas of reopening:
In order to be able to recover and reopen in Las Vegas, this is what I believe are the right steps to take:
1. The Governor’s appointed Task Force should be focused on COVID-19 testing capabilities and safely reopening the economy.
2. Reopen parts of the local Nevada economy in early May. Begin with reduced occupancy, physical distancing measures in place, temperature checks and no large gatherings. We all need to wear a mask. Wearing a mask is uncomfortable; however, it will allow our economy to reopen faster.
3. Follow the data provided by a team of modeling experts tracking benchmarks based on the following criteria: a. Increases in COVID-19 testing velocity. b. Hospitalizations and deaths per million should not exceed the national average over any sustained period. c. Hospital critical care bed availability should be reserved based on a ratio of current COVID-19 patients in the event of a spike. d. Full transparent data should be public, web based and accessible to anyone.
4. Assuming in mid- to late-May we are still in line with the benchmarks, slowly begin to reopen the Las Vegas strip with extensive safety measures in place.
5. Monitor the data every day. If we need to, marginally pull back or move forward.
Wynn was one of the first properties to close before Gov. Sisolak issued the closure of all nonessential businesses in March.
The company announced soon after the closures that they would pay all of their 15,000 full-time and part-time employees for 60 days, through May 15.
Wynn Resorts says it is costing them approximately $3 million per day, or $180 million for two months, to pay their employees.
The company has not yet announced a date to reopen.
I’m expecting we will have much “tighter” slot machines for a while after the casinos re-open.
Well, I was supposed to take my wife to Vegas for her birthday this month. Obviously those dates will change, but we are not going to Vegas (nor will many others), if they implement this BS. Who is going to go to Vegas and walk around with masks and have all your data recorded? These idiots will destroy themselves given the opportunity.
The next discussion with Sisolek will go something like this:
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all f***in’ night.”
The mask thing is their last gasp.
That won’t go over well. Although most already are wearing them.
Hilarious I guess it shouldn’t be but it is. Is that right out of Casino?
Yes, one of Nicky Santoro’s (Joe Pesci) lines.
“...we are not going to Vegas (nor will many others), if they implement this BS.”
Understandable. But many others won’t go UNLESS they implement the BS. A tough call for the casino owners.
Why wouldn’t the owners of all the casinos get together and buy thousands of these Abbott machines that can test in 5 minutes? You get a wristband, and it’s good for one week. Every employee is tested every day. Open full tilt tomorrow.
Don’t make the perfect the enemy of the good.
The fact that solutions like these aren’t talked about for casinos, sports franchises, etc. makes me believe that they want everyone to gradually get this virus for herd immunity sakes
I expect to see a push for online gambling, may not happen, but if Vegas and other casino venues can’t make a go of then there will be some support for it.
Payouts are determined by the Nevada Gaming Commission.
It would make sense for casino owners to promote on-line gambling in a major way. I’d expect to see some innovations in that area, although I don’t gamble on line - or otherwise - so IDK if it’s an area that would be ripe for fresh thinking.
They should temporarily stop allowing smoking while playing a slot machine. People who smoke should have to wash their hands before and after playing the machines.
I had planned on a week in Vegas the end of May. Staying with a friend instead of in a hotel but I’m not doing this crap. I’ll just wait. And I’ll bet a bunch of people feel the same way.
Gaming commission sets minimum payout ratio allowed.
I wouldn’t go to Vegas if you paid me, and that was before the virus hit.
What little dab of money I got, I came by it hard. Don’t make sense to piss it away in a slot machine. On our trip out West last fall, we drove right past it, after seeing Hoover Dam, then over to Death Valley.
...allowing smoking while playing ...
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While smoking MAY be related to more severe SYMPTOMS, there was an article a while back showing that smokers actually may be protected somewhat from CONTRACTING this virus.
I and about 20 others stayed at the Wynn for a week. They closed the day after we left.
Not a one of us has had any symptoms and we were around literally thousands of people during a giant construction conference.
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