The mayor of Las Vegas basically says that businesses know best when it comes to a global pandemic. This is what comes from people who simply cannot understand the concept of the common good.
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman on Wednesday repeatedly called for the city’s businesses to reopen while refusing to provide any social distancing guidelines on how to do so safely.
“I am not a private owner. That’s the competition in this country. The free enterprise and to be able to make sure that what you offer the public meets the needs of the public,” Goodman, an independent, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper.
“Right now, we’re in a crisis health-wise, and so for a restaurant to be open or a small boutique to be open, they better figure it out. That’s their job. That’s not the mayor’s job.”
I sure hope they consult their insurance carriers and lawyers. If they don’t think there will be tremendous liability if people get sick in their establishments because they failed to follow the advice of the public health experts that’s out there for everyone to see, they are kidding themselves.
Free enterprise is the cure-all for everything in the libertarian mind.
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Oh my God