Posted on 04/23/2020 4:06:12 AM PDT by Kaslin
Carolyn Goodman, the mayor of Las Vegas, on Wednesday said she would be willing to offer her city as a "control group" for the Wuhan coronavirus.
"Every one of those lives is a tragic loss but when you count 150 versus 2.3 million, you have to say, 'We have to open up. We have to go back,'" Goodman told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "Our bus drivers, our restaurants –"
"Hasn't it been because of social distancing that the numbers have been what they are?" Cooper asked.
"How do you know until we have a control group? We offered to be a control group," the mayor replied. "Anyone who knows anything about statistics knows that, for instance, you have a vaccine –"
The CNN host interrupted her.
"You're offering the citizens of Las Vegas to be a control group to see if your theory on social distancing works or doesn't work?" Cooper asked skeptically.
Goodman said she offered but was turned down. She rejected Cooper's notion that a control group was a way of seeing if social distancing is effective.
"What I said was I offered to be a control group and I was told by our statistician that we can't do that because people from all parts of southern Nevada come into work in the city. And I said, 'Oh, that's too bad' ..." Goodman said.
The mayor used the idea of the placebo effect to explain her reasoning for offering Sin City up as a control group. In her mind, she said the city could be the "placebo effect" so officials "have something to measure against."
"If casinos reopen are you going to be inside those casinos every single night putting your own life on the line?" Cooper asked.
"I have lived in this town for 56 years –" she replied.
"Are you going to go to casinos every night and put your life on the line like all the workers?" he asked. "You say you were there holding their hands."
"I've been in town," she replied. "They don't need it. We weren't broken. As tragically as the 150 people we lost – tragic – we have 2.3 million people here."
Cooper pressed her again about whether or not she would be in casinos every night.
"What is the purpose of that?" Goodman asked. "First of all, I have a family and I cook a meal every night."
"You're putting your money where your mouth is," the host replied.
You sure that’s not Rosemary Clooney?
LV, a control group that would be a hub for cross-communicating the virus between travelers from all over the country.
Cities that are NOT significant travel desitinations, convention and party centers, those sorts of cities are containable control groups.
Democrat turned Independent. Figures.
Since finding out that early tests were contaminated and hundreds were told they had the virus...AND they added “all deaths” as virus deaths....AND the group run by Fauci put out that negative report on the Malaria Cocktail.....I don’t believe a gd thing that comes out of CDC, WHO and Fauci.
Opportunity for online betting.
They could bet on the spread.
I thought it was Horny Mike from Counting Cars.
No, shes been dead since June 29, 2002
I agree.
The Deep State goal is to continue to ruin the US economy and steal the fall elections through mail in and electronic "Smart Phone" vote fraud.
I do think it is an opportunity. Get some of those machines that put out a result in 5 minutes. You need it placed at a critical entry point which is separate from the general layout. If you find a positive...
I agree with her and Pooper. Open it up and get in the casinos with the people.
The price for the mail-in test is $119 retail. I know the results of those Abbott Labs tests come quickly, but I don;t know the cost.
That’s Oscar’s wife.
They could have a new game in Vegas. Kiss an infected person and bet on how long before you get sick,recover,die or doesn’t effect you. Sounds like fun.
She’s greedy, but she’s brilliant. Seriously, talk about calling Fauci’s bluff.
Arms to the teeth with HCQ/Zinc/Antibiotics and then says, “Look you ghoulish midget, you want to do a double-blind study in the middle of a pandemic, then come to Las Vegas. We’ll find folks who are dying who’ll take the sugar pill while others get a known-good therapy.”
The Abbott Lab quickie is $4500 per machine and $40 for each cartridge.
“Are you going to go to casinos every night and put your life on the line like all the workers?”
Stupid question. She’s 81 years old. The workers aren’t. She wasn’t prepared. She should have said that vulnerable people due to their age or health issues, shouldn’t be crowded casinos at this point in time.
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