A whole bunch of people emailed me about CNN's Anderson Cooper interviewing the mayor of
Las Vegas, Nevada, Carolyn Goodman.
And it is something else.
So I want to look at a few clips with you.
Anderson was visibly stunned by how ignorant and incompetent the mayor of Las Vegas is.
How she got to become mayor of Las Vegas is a different story.
But let's look at some of the interview.
And Carolyn Goodman is desperate for Las Vegas to open up.
This includes casinos.
This includes the Las Vegas strip in general.
But she doesn't actually have any idea how it could happen safely other than to wildly
dismiss every concern that Anderson Cooper brings up and say that, listen, they're going
to have to figure it out.
Let's get right into it.
There's a Chinese researchers have shown how this virus spreads.
I just want to put up for our viewers.
I just want to put up our viewers.
This is a red handle thing here to not just China.
This isn't China.
This is a Vegas, Nevada.
Wow.
OK.
That's really ignorant.
This is a restaurant and the yellow shirt to say that's an ignorant, ignorant statement.
That's that's a restaurant.
And yes, it's in China.
But there are human beings, too.
That yellow is a person who is asymptomatic and infected and all those other red circles
or other diners who that one diner pass the virus to.
All those other people became infected in a restaurant that had air conditioning.
And they believe it was the air conditioning, which part helped the virus and spread to
all those other.
Remember the Legionnaires disease in 1976 and Philadelphia came all through the air
conditioning.
You don't remember because you're younger.
I remember Mary Typhoid Mary, who I think passed away.
Well, anyway, during the late thirties, rode the buses, was a cook, and she was asymptomatic
and she spread it.
Eh, eh?
The fear of getting typhoid.
And she never showed a sign of it.
And she lived most of her life.
Quarantine.
The reality was, I think 58 people passed away from typhoid.
And so we're aware of this.
We learned from history.
We've had Ebola.
We've had that West Nile, but we've had polio.
We've had these.
None of those were infectious in Las Vegas.
I mean, you didn't have people with Ebola on a casino floor.
You know what?
If you don't know that well, yet, you do.
Because if you had a neighbor of mine died from West Nile.
Yeah.
Her neighbor died of West Nile.
She has no idea what she's talking about.
Listing other diseases.
Isn't anything.
It's not an argument.
It's not a reason to do anything.
It's not a reason not to do anything.
Legionnaires in the 1970s, what is this woman talking about?
And it continues and it actually gets even worse.
You're you're I mean, you're talking encouraging hundreds of thousands of people to come to
Las Vegas to get the financial losses people are suffering, which is awful.
But you're encouraging.
I mean, 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.
Doesn't that sound like a virus petri dish?
I mean, how is that?
No.
It sounds like you're being an alarmist.
I'm not.
I've lived a long life.
I grew up in the heart of Manhattan.
I know what it's like to be with subways and on buses and began going to elevators.
I think you are by saying of what you have just said.
So you don't believe there should be any social distancing?
You don't believe that this is.
I believe there should be.
Of course.
How do you do that in a casino?
That's up to them to figure out.
So it got really, really bad, and I would encourage you to check out the full interview
on YouTube on CNN's Web site.
Now, the one thing I can say about Carolyn Goodman is she looks remarkably good for being
an 81 year old woman.
I would not have guessed she was 81 by any means.
So congratulations to her.
Maybe some of that dry Vegas heat is helping her remain extremely spry into her 80s.
Other than that, I don't have much positive that I can really say about her.
And there's an interesting thing happening where as the world does become more and more
focused on slowing down the spread of Corona virus and most of the planet understands what
we're fighting here and why we're doing it.
In comparison, the crazy people are getting a lot louder.
The anti lockdown protesters around the country seem completely out
of it.
I mean, blocking traffic and making it difficult for ambulances to bring patients who need
medical care to a hospital.
It's crazy.
Carolyn Goodman as mayor of Las Vegas seems completely disconnected from reality at this
point.
When someone like Carolyn Goodman doesn't deal, in fact, but just abstractly talks about
the economy opening up and ignores the issue of the virus spread itself, they are essentially
saying, I don't care who lives or dies, but we need to get money flowing.
It's the embrace of what I talked about on Wednesday.
Maybe it was Tuesday.
Republicans embracing let them die, let them die in exchange for whatever they've identified
as a higher priority.
This is the approach that they're taking.
Most people aren't going to fall for it.
And yesterday, I pointed out mayors can't really open cities.
Governors can't really open states.
The president can't really
open the country.
It's up to the people to do it.
And in the case of Las Vegas, even if it, quote, opened, there aren't many flights coming
in and out.
Foreign flights are almost completely cut off.
Most people recognize that a crowded casino, even if it's open, even if you could go and
sit down at a blackjack table and get the free drinks brought to you and the entire
thing.
Most people recognize that it doesn't make sense to do that right now.
So even if she opens Vegas, it's not going to be much of an opening.
And I think that that's an important thing to remember.
Regardless of the ad, increasingly Astroturf protests to reopen polling shows that most
Americans are prioritizing slowing the spread over saving the economy.
And I'm not saying the economic destruction is not significant.
We now have 26 million people
who in five weeks have filed new unemployment insurance claims.
I'm right there with you.
But over the medium and long term, we are better off if we don't have resurgence of
the virus because of opening too early.
Carolyn Goodman doesn't seem to understand that in a stunning interview I encourage you
to check out in total.
Let me know what you think.
I'm on Twitter at De Packman.
We have a fantastic program planned for you today.