A vaccine won't produce results "all of a sudden," because you'll have the same supply chain problems in distributing 300M vaccinations as you currently have distributing tests and masks to the right places.

Oh, and: A vaccine is a minimum of a year away.

hopefully they�ll do a miracle and find a vaccine sooner

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If I remember correctly, Treasure Island is an independently owned casino which is probably why they are considering opening. Will be interesting to see if they actually make this date. I know the mayor isn't going to stop them Perhaps the governor will by extending the shutdown.

Yes, MGM Resorts sold it to Phil Ruffin (who also co-owns the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas) a few years ago. IMO the governor will certainly extend any quarantine involving the Strip even if only to spite the Las Vegas mayor, so this is a nonissue.

I do feel the nature of the quarantine here really does need to be re-examined, as many "non-essential" businesses have been forced closed even while "essential" businesses that sell the very same things are allowed to continue to operate fully. It's just far too arbitrary, and doesn't even make sense when so many of the "essential" businesses aren't enforcing social distancing at all.

The mayor isn't going to stop them because she has no power to stop them. TI, along with all the Strip casinos, are not in the city of Las Vegas.

That sure is strange. So the City of Las Vegas is just part of the metro area (normal so far), but I see that Paradise is an unincorporated part of Clark County that includes the Strip. I can't recall ever seeing a densely-populated unincorporated anything. Those almost seem like contradictory terms.

Paradise is essentially a commercial HOA. It's unique to Las Vegas. For most Strip hotels, there is no pesky "city" to deal with involving regulations - only Clark County commissioners.

All "unincorporated' here means is that it's not a self-governing area and is instead governed under the umbrella of a larger entity (typically the county). There are around 50 designated unincorporated towns in Nevada and represent about half the state's population; these population centers still benefit from or desire representation reflecting their local/community needs but don't want the massive hassles and costs of incorporation. (Note that in areas facing financial turmoil - especially the Midwest - there has been a trend of many incorporated cities actually disincorporating, either voluntarily or because they went insolvent.)

Similar unincorporated areas are actually very common outside of a few northeastern states; I believe there are several hundred in California, including even in central LA County (this issue made the news recently since the Mayor of LA didn't have jurisdiction over the million-or-so people in those areas for his quarantine shutdown).

There are actually around a dozen unincorporated towns in the Las Vegas metro area that have designated representation with the county.

A good friend in Vegas believes that the casinos will use the reopening of their casino floors under COVID as a lever to finally ban smoking in the entire building. Can't smoke if you have a mask on. And the constant cleaning/replacing of ash trays is a labor-intensive piece that they'd like to eliminate, using the cover of protecting their staff via social distancing.

I still don't know how a dealer can be protected in COVID conditions, given how easy it is for the virus to reside on the surfaces of playing cards and chips.

Smoking will never go away so long as Vegas wants gamblers from China.

Also, V/P's reopening plan (released yesterday) has already stated they will not require guests/patrons to wear masks. Wynn released a reopening plan last week, but I don't know if it had any policy on masks.

Yes, please! Sure, maybe you lose some of the people who want to smoke . . . but would you potentially gain a lot more people who can barely stand the stink and pollution on the floor?

When I go to LAS I play slots at Bellagio. Caesars Palace, Bally's, Paris. Only Bellagio actually has a few slots that are SMOKE FREE--unfortunately not isolated from the rest
In AC, except for Caesars, all casinos have slots on one floor. Caesars has 2 gambling floors--the 2nd level is totally SMOKE FREE.
PS: I guess in LAS if you want smoke free slots you have to go to the AIRPORT.

Oh, I'm totally with you. It's just not going to happen.

Can't drink, either. Are they going to go without bars and cocktail waitresses? Somehow, I doubt customers will be asked to wear masks... maybe they should, but how would that really work??

This...they could have more non-smoking areas if there was a demand for it and they would have done it already. Vegas will never stop serving booze---how else are we all going to do stupid things and lose our money if we can't drink? If drinking is still happening then smoking is happening. No masks for either.