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What If Trump Tells You, 1 Month From Now, It’s Safe To Go To Vegas?

First of all, would you believe him?

Eric J Scholl
3 min readApr 6, 2020

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Then, wouldn’t you want to know everyone you encounter there: at the hotel, at a restaurant, at the casino, at the pool, at a sports book, at a club, had either tested negative, or had recovered? How’s that going to happen?

Or that hospitals in Las Vegas had enough ventilators should there be a sudden pocket outbreak somewhere? That could happen. In fact, probably will from time to time in various places. But hospitals don’t like to keep a lot of equipment around that they have to maintain and that they don’t make a lot of money off of. Would/should the government force them to? Or would the Vegas hospitals use it as a selling point: putting up the number of ventilators available up on huge billboards along the freeway cutting through the middle of town (as they’ve done for years, advertising current waiting times at the emergency room)? Even then, wouldn’t you want to be sure you weren’t potentially bringing something back to your community with you when you came home? What about your employer? Would they want you right back at the office if you’d just traveled? Or would anyone back from vacation be mandated to self-quarantine and work from home for a period of time (if they had a job that would make that a possibility)? If so, would the…

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Eric J Scholl
Eric J Scholl

Written by Eric J Scholl

Peabody award winning journalist. Streaming media pioneer. Played @ CBGB back in the day. Editor-In-Chief "The Chaos Report" www.thechaosreport.com

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