# The Las Vegas covid gamble: are they holding a losing hand? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 1, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388 "2021-07-01T01:52:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/1 "2021-07-01T01:52:33Z")
Back on June 1, Las Vegas opened up with no mask, no social distancing, business as usual. Yippee! They counted on the non-vaccinated to respect their request to be honest, and mask up, or stay away. Right. Now, Nevada leads the states in the 7 day average Covid cases at 150 average/million/day And Clark County is higher than the state at a 7 day average of 420/day, or 185 cases/million/day This does not look good. Has Las Vegas lost the plot? Are they going to be ground zero for spreading covid variants across the continent? ---
**Author:** ![tofor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tofor/32/13727_2.png) [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/2 "2021-07-01T11:33:37Z")
How many people going to Las Vegas are from Nevada though? I wouldn’t have thought it would be Nevada that showed the increase. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/3 "2021-07-01T12:05:58Z")
The tourists bring COVID to the casino workers, who take it home, where it spreads among the locals like wildfire ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2021, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/4 "2021-07-01T12:06:37Z")
And who do you think is working at the casinos? The majority of people in Las Vegas at any given moment are from Las Vegas. They might be making things worse for all the rest of us, too, but that’ll also mean making it even more worse for themselves, and that’s where the statistics will be most obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/5 "2021-07-04T00:27:34Z")
[Article about the high covid case count](https://vancouversun.com/news/world/masks-rare-as-vegas-nightlife-returns-and-majority-unvaccinated-nevadans-lead-nation-in-covid-cases/wcm/0da03b7c-9309-476f-8778-c96f287785d7) in Nevada, and the below average vaccination rate. > Nevada is coping with a convergence of factors. The state has a low vaccination rate with fewer than half of its residents receiving at least one dose. That’s coinciding with a return of Las Vegas’s famous nightlife: casinos and restaurants are packed to the point where it’s difficult to even get a reservation, with many locals also enjoying the fun. Masks are rarely worn. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/6 "2021-07-04T06:32:01Z")
What people catch in Vegas needs to stay in Vegas. But it won’t. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/7 "2021-07-04T20:59:10Z")
Nevada has an extremely low vaccination rate. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/8 "2021-07-04T21:28:12Z")
Yep. As of today, 50.2% of the population with at least one dose. Quite low. Plenty of supply, it’s just that many are refusing. Not a good scenario. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/9 "2021-07-04T21:32:56Z")
I wanted to go back to Vegas once the border was sufficiently open. Now it is, but I can’t go to a place full of COVID carriers. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2021, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-las-vegas-covid-gamble-are-they-holding-a-losing-hand/945388/10 "2021-07-04T21:35:39Z")
No kidding. We will have to give it more time. I worry about all those folks who don’t care, and will travel there and bring it back home with them. The fed gov is getting shit from the Conservatives for keeping the US border closed. I applaud this decision.