kingdragonfly: Literally willing to gamble with her constituents' lives.From an interview with Las Vegas, Nevada Mayor Carolyn Goodman on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360:

Mayor Goodman: We have to open up. We have to go back. Our bus drivers, our room cleaners, our restaurants —

Reporter Cooper: But hasn’t it been because of social distancing that the numbers have been what they are.

Goodman: How do you know until we have a control group? We offered to be a control group. Anybody who knows anything about statistic knows that for instance you have a vaccine, you give a real vaccine —

Cooper: You’re offering for the citizens of Las Vegas to be a control group to see if your theory on social distancing —

Goodman: I did offer, it was turned down.

*slaps head*

This is when you need a "Boris Johnson" event to happen in the US.  He was a little like this before he got it and was in ICU. I bet she would change her mind very fast if she ended up in an IC unit or someone very close to her did.

Maybe she should be looking at getting some of those people that want to work (get paid) in to package goods/food for people that are in need and not reopen hotels and casino's etc.