To be fair, the Casino business model assumes the customer does not care about statistical disadvantage.
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Sure as city can survive like that. You just use air conditioning. People live in utterly uninhabitable climates all over the world. Humans without tools and technology can’t survive a full year in most places outside of the equator due to temperature alone. Us naked apes are a tropical species stripped of tools and technology. If the heating in my house fails in the winter time and I don’t find a new source of heat, I’m dead as dead as a Native American who can’t get a fire going.
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Because it’s not always clear what the risk is. In my casual attempt to assess risk, I’ve been betting on a bunch of re-openings causing havoc, and I’ve lost most of those bets. We’ve had re-openings everywhere, and they haven’t all gone to pot (yet).
So no, it’s not clear that a re-opening always causes a case explosion.
So for me, the crime of these governments is NOT trying to re-open - the cost of not re-opening is also tremendous.
Their crime is not reversing the re-openings a few weeks back when it had already become clear that for whatever reason, these re-openings were igniting a massive rise in cases, even when you can point re-openings elsewhere that were not.
Sadly, the best we have from most of these governments is a half-hearted “we’ll not re-open further”, which seems idiotic when you now have proof that your current level of re-opening is causing an explosion of cases.
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It seems pretty darn clear to me that Nevada was not following guidelines set out by medical professionals and epidemiologists for a responsible, phased reopening.
Just because the best available projections still contain unknowns does not mean that the responsible thing to do is jump straight to full-scale casino reopenings and hope for the best.
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The cost of not re-opening is high. The cost of re-opening unsafely is death and a delayed recovery. We can recover from going broke. Recovering from death is tougher.
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Maybe it’s not being bad at risk assessment that is the problem, but priorities of people making decisions, which are influenced by lobbyists.
Risk assessment? What risk assessment?
The house always wins!
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If a city is called Phoenix one could suppose is flaming hot.
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Trumpian Logic: bigger numbers are always better – only losers have low numbers.
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Phoenix also is growing too rapidly for its so-called water supply.
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But the difference is that it is possible to get a fire going for warmth in a pinch. There aren’t many solutions to lower your body temp once the water’s gone and the temps are in the 120 degree F range.
EDIT: I will say this though: NV has a great potential for solar power to keep the AC’s running. We just need to invest more in solar than trying to milk rocks for petroleum.
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That’s how he justifies his golf handicap too.
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actually, we were – we still are. but i think back when all the “we must reopen for the economy!” protests were going on, our governor was also getting a huge amount of pressure from the casino industry, too, which employs a TON of people. i think he relented a little just to appease all that – like california did – and now look at both states, sigh.
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But it really isn’t. If my city lost power, I’d need to find a warm shelter. There is no place to put a fire in my apartment. I am as screwed as if it was 120F outside; probably more so because I can survive that temperature for a while as long as I can keep drinking water. You literally can not survive (without serious survival gear) outside in the winter for more than hour; sometimes even less than that.
Seriously; humans living a place where they will 100% die within hours without technology is not new. If Nevada was to regularly hit 120F, Los Vegas wouldn’t be abandoned; it would just be built more like a northern city, with buildings and houses having good insulation, and people would spend most of their time indoors for a season. The only difference is that they’d be blasting AC instead of heat into those insulated building.
Hell, Los Vegas is already inhabitable within a 24-48ish hours without technology. You can’t drink or sweat dust.
There are lots of good reasons to fight against climate change. We don’t need to pretend like humans can’t figure out how to survive at a temperature slightly above what is naturally tolerable to justify fighting climate change.
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The House always wins. (Unless it’s Trump.)
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Yeah, you’d probably lose your security deposit pretty quick if you tried to find a place 
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“Light a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.”
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