RUSH: On March 17, Nevada’s Democrat Governor Steve Sisolak ordered all nonessential businesses to shut down to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
Las Vegas was hit hard. Hotels and casinos, the lifeblood of the city, have been shut down for almost three months now. By April almost 30 percent of the city’s workforce was unemployed – the highest of any state, and worse than during the Great Depression.
Finally, 80 days later, the closings are now over. Nevada can finally open again, and the casinos want to make customers feel safe coming back to Vegas. So they’ve got temperature checks for people entering the resorts, touchless check-ins, and even sanitized dice and cards – along with the ever-present face masks. But it remains to be seen if all of that will bring people back.
Here is what needs to be answered. Was the shutdown of Nevada’s economy – and America’s – really necessary? Did it help stop the virus from spreading? So far, the answer coming from study after study is no. In far too many cases, Democrat governors were willing to gamble with people’s jobs, their prosperity, and lives. And it was the people themselves, sadly, who lost. They always do in Democrat states.
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