Anderson Cooper interviewed Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday, who offered a fact- and science-free argument about why Sin City’s casinos should be open for business in the midst of the worst pandemic in a century.
The interview went off the rails immediately, as Cooper questioned the wisdom of reopening the city’s casinos, restaurants and theatres contrary to overwhelming scientific evidence that would lead to a sharp rise in COVID-19 infections and increase the death count even higher than anticipated.
Cooper pointed out packed casinos full of hundreds of thousands people, “smoking, drinking, touching slot machines, breathing circulated air” sounds more “like a virus petri dish,” and pointed out these people would then return