Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/17/las-vegas-shuts-down-casinos.html
Governor urges state residents to “Stay home for Nevada”
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It’s one thing to close casinos and bars. It’s another thing to also close liquor stores. There might be riots in the streets.
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A week late, but oh well.
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Can you get liquor at grocery stores?
(I grew up in California where you can get the hard stuff at the grocery store. The concept some other states have where you have to go to a special place to get booze is very foreign to me. I’m not sure how Nevada works, but I know you can gamble in grocery stores!)
ETA looks like you can get booze from grocery stores in Nevada.
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I had been really wondering for a while, how come we see all these reports of empty shelves in grocery stores, but no reports at all of empty shelves in liquor stores? I mean, that’s something that a lot of people wouldn’t want to be stuck at home without. It finally dawned on me just yesterday, that I live in a state where you have to go to a liquor store for booze and strong beer, but other states have liquor in the grocery stores.
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Yea you can get liquor nearly anywhere. Convenience stores, gas stations, grocery stores, Costco, etc. There’s also no such thing as a “last call” as bars and nightclubs can stay open and serve drinks as long as they want, and in most of Las Vegas drinking on the sidewalk is legal unlike other states/cities i lived in the past. Vegas is silly but i miss its liquor laws. Good to know you can get liquor in most places in Cali too!
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A friend posted on FB that her dad got laid off from his long time casino job. It sucks considering that Vegas is pretty dependent on tourist and gambling, a lot of people i know are going to have a hell of a hard time making ends meet 
Same friend also depends on conventions to make money and get new business as an artist.
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Since this is something that is going to impact most of us 99% in some way, and may even inconvenience the 1%, I feel like this is the best time to rethink our social contracts. Especially where money, debts, and basic human rights are concerned. I don’t expect this to end capitalism, but it would be great if it could be restructured so that so many of us aren’t struggling all the damned time, and give us some of the benefits of living in the 21st century that the 1% are currently hoarding, like expanded free time to pursue the things that interest us, rather than always scrambling for their crumbs.
What’s happening in Vegas isn’t staying in Vegas, and while it sucks, it’s just the tip of the suckberg.
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iirc a full blown liquor store is a little cheaper than safeway but if you’re only buying 750ml you’d really only go if you wanted something obscure
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I totally agree, i’m glad i don’t have a job that’s directly being impacted but i don’t like seeing people i care about struggle. Things are just getting started for the US, i can only hope for the best
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Honestly, laying him off is somewhat of a mercy. Laid off, he can get unemployment and benefits. (In Ohio, they’ve waived the requirement to be off a week before you get your first benefits, and they have eliminated timeframes for receiving benefits, until this thing clears up. I don’t think you have to apply for jobs, either.)
If we had a functional national government similar measures should have been directed from a federal perspective instead of letting each state fend for themselves.
Right now, if I was running a business and couldn’t afford labor costs without the associated income from those jobs, I’d informally let everyone know that I hope to hire them back when this is done, and will recruit them heavily, but letting them get unemployment now is better than trying to keep everyone on in reduced hours (and pay).
Plus, that gives them the opportunity to stay home and self-isolate and hopefully keep this thing from getting worse.
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I understand and agree with the strategy but likely doesn’t help anyone that depended on benefits/healthcare. I hope everyone here’s been doing ok all things considered 
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I think you can get booze at CVS and Walgreens in Vegas.
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Me either. And since I don’t travel in wealthy circles, that’s all I’m seeing.
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Speaking of…
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too little, too late. I was there 2 weeks ago and it was an absolute shitshow of fluid exchanging.
I was reading a tweet by someone claiming to have previously worked in/with the Vegas bomb squad, saying that their procedures prevented them from shutting down a casino for even a matter of minutes, because of the financial impact… I’m trying to imagine what this will do.
Especially since we’ve got widespread mandatory business closings in California, New York, etc. that are going to have - already are having - enormous financial impacts on people. Tons of people laid off already, and plenty more to come as the weeks go by. Looks like twenty-odd states are imposing limits on restaurants, allowing delivery/take-out only. Restaurants that had already done so reported losses of 90% of their business, so they might as well be shut down. (And many will, not because they have to, but because they can’t afford to stay open.)
That may be the one good thing that comes out of this - the realization that social safety nets help everyone in times of crisis and that’s also true all the time.
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Surely some bookie is taking odds on when the pandemic will be over?
/s
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My wife is the Office Manager at a local restaurant here in Colorado Springs. They had to stop doing dine-in as of yesterday, and were scrambling to figure out how provide curb service since they don’t do deliveries. The cut that Grubhub and DoorDash wanted were too much for it to be worthwhile not so long ago; I don’t know if they are reconsidering now. On a bad day the restaurant earns around $3k. Yesterday they earned $900. I’m hoping they can make it work, but I fully expect them to be closed by Friday.
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What doesn’t happen in Vegas may or may not come back around to Vegas.
