周三，拉斯维加斯市长卡洛琳·古德曼表示，尽管该州冠状病毒病例和死亡人数众多，她仍希望重新开放该市和赌场。
古德曼在接受美国有线电视新闻网采访时说:“我希望一切都是开放的，因为我认为我们已经感染病毒很多年了。”。“现实是，我希望我们在拉斯维加斯开业，人们可以在那里回去工作。”
根据约翰·霍普金斯大学提供的追踪报告，目前在内华达州有超过3900例确诊冠状病毒病例，至少有163人死亡。
在古德曼出现在美国有线电视新闻网期间，主持人安德森·库珀详细介绍了拉斯维加斯的赌场将会是什么样子，以及它将如何影响全国其他地区。
库珀说:“你在鼓励成千上万的人到赌场来，吸烟、喝酒、触摸老虎机、呼吸流通的空气，然后回到美国各州和世界各国的家中。”。“这听起来不像病毒培养皿吗？”
古德曼接着反驳了这一说法，称库珀听起来像是“危言耸听”，并指出社会距离措施应该由特定的赌场来实施，而不是她。
古德曼的评论是在她出现在MSNBC时发表类似言论后发表的。她之前在一次市议会会议上称该市的关闭为“完全疯狂”。
“我假设每个人都是冠状病毒携带者——我们100%的人口都没有症状，但都是携带者，”古德曼说。"我的全部意见是:让我们的人回去工作."
古德曼接着谈到了在美国蔓延的其他病毒，类似于她在美国有线电视新闻网上发表的言论。
周三，拉斯维加斯市长卡罗琳·古德曼表示，该市和赌场应该重新开放。
古德曼说:“我们在西尼罗河和非典、禽流感、大肠杆菌、猪流感、寨卡病毒中幸存了下来。”。"我们经历了所有这些其他的病毒，传染性的，高度传染性的疾病."
“难道我们让所有人都失业，因为我们手上有病毒，就摧毁了人们、我们的孩子和下一代的生活吗？”古德曼问道。“我假设每个人都是一个载体。因此，让我们继续前进，开放这座城市，开放任何想要开放的人，但要以一种非常负责、谨慎的方式去做。”
不管古德曼怎么说，内华达州州长史蒂夫·西索拉克最近表示，该州重新开业的速度将会很慢。
“我们会在适当的时候重新开放，”西斯拉克在最近的新闻发布会上说。“这将是一种非常渐进的方式。限制将会慢慢被释放或稍微放松。
“这并不像扳动开关那么容易，”西斯拉克补充道。
LAS VEGAS MAYOR SAYS CITY AND CASINOS SHOULD REOPEN: 'WE'VE HAD VIRUSES FOR YEARS' HERE
On Wednesday, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said that she wanted to reopen the city and casinos, despite the number of coronavirus cases and deaths in the state.
"I'd love everything open because I think we've had viruses for years that have been here," Goodman said while appearing on CNN. "The reality is I want us open in the city of Las Vegas, where people can go back to work."
According to a tracker provided by Johns Hopkins University, there are currently over 3,900 confirmed coronavirus cases in Nevada, and at least 163 deaths.
During Goodman's appearance on CNN, host Anderson Cooper detailed what it will look like for the casinos in Las Vegas to be opened and how it could impact the rest of the country.
"You're encouraging hundreds of thousands of people coming there in casinos, smoking, drinking, touching slot machines, breathing circulated air, and then returning home to states around America, and countries around the world," Cooper said. "Doesn't that sound like a virus petri dish?"
Goodman then went on to dispute this claim, stating that Cooper sounded like an "alarmist," and noted that social distancing measures should be imposed by the specific casinos and not by her.
Goodman's comments come just after she made similar remarks while appearing on MSNBC. She previously called the shutdown of the city "total insanity," during a city council meeting.
"What I assume is that everybody is a coronavirus carrier—that 100 percent of our population is asymptomatic, but a carrier," Goodman said. "My whole opinion is: get our people back to work."
Goodman then went on to talk about other viruses that have spread throughout the U.S., similar to her remarks made while appearing on CNN.
On Wednesday, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman said that the city and casinos should reopen.
"We've survived the West Nile and SARS, bird flu, E. coli, swine flu, the Zika virus," Goodman said. "We have lived through all of these other viruses, contagious, highly contagious diseases."
"Do we keep absolutely everyone out of work and destroy the lives of people and our children and the next generation because we have a fight on our hands with the virus?" Goodman asked. "I'm making the assumption that everybody is a carrier. So let's go forward, open up the city, open up whoever wants to open up, but do it in a very responsible, cautious way."
In spite of what Goodman says, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak recently stated that the businesses reopening's in the state will be slow.
"We will reopen when the time is right," Sisolak said at a recent press conference. "It would be a very gradual manner. Restrictions will slowly be released or relieved a little bit.
"It's not as easy as flipping a switch," Sisolak added.
