Yeah, initially she claimed she offered to be a 'test group' - I'm not entirely sure but I think her requests were ignored or she was told that wasn't happening. In my opinion, the point was, she certainly did not claim that she would be doing her best to protect her people - all she wanted was to get everyone back to work. I get that but she is so out of line putting people's lives at risk until there is reason to believe the 'curve' had flattened or was on the way down OR we have a vaccine. Thankfully, the Governor wasn't going to open the state just because the Mayor of Las Vegas asked. It will be opened soon enough but I'm sure it won't be everything all at once.
I actually felt some compassion for her during the CNN interview - even though I didn't agree with her.
Her point was that she saw her job as getting her city back to work.
Anderson's point was that it wasn't safe yet - Vegas is really a petrie dish.
Her retort was that "safe" was a relative term and nothing was "proven" to her satisfaction. She said there are always illnesses going around society and midsize cities. Typhoid [Mary] and Legionnaire's Disease were two that she mentioned.
But what she was NOT addressing was the sustainability of re-opening prematurely.
It was a crazy interview and it hilighted the difficulties in finding common ground on how to handel the pandemic.
Just when you think certain basic policy assumptions are obvious - you find they are not accepted by some in power - and yes it makes a difference.
And this is why Doug Polk and others want to recall her as mayor.
