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

First of all, would you believe him?

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 government have to have a role in making sure that happened?

We remember when we first started traveling internationally, we had to carry a vaccination card along with our passport to gain entry into some countries. That became more unnecessary in recent years. But seems like that kind of thing might definitely be making a comeback. And we don’t just mean for international travel, which we assume will be very difficult or virtually impossible until there’s a vaccine. (And even then, countries are going to have to agree on international standard and how it will be verified.)

No, we mean right here in the U.S., where people might be compelled to prove their COVID-19 status in order to work in certain jobs, or maybe even to enter certain buildings. (Although it’d be challenged on the basis of civil liberties for sure.)

And again: who does this? And how? Who sets the standard for what type of test results are…