Mayor Goodman's interview with Anderson Cooper is a blooper reel of failed leadership
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Traditionally, Las Vegas has been a place where Americans go to forget about statistics, but in an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360, Mayor Carolyn Goodman stressed the need for a control group to determine if social distancing measures are the tool that have kept American deaths below the early, catastrophic estimates.
Goodman: We have to open up. We have to go back. Our bus drivers, our room cleaners, our restaurants —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.
The independent mayor is not the only lawmaker calling to reopen the country at the expense of their constituents. On Monday, the Lieutenant Governor of Texas Dan Patrick said that “there are more important things than living,” like ensuring continued value for shareholders. In Georgia, Governor Brian Kemp has already allowed many businesses to reopen, despite health experts warning that doing so without proper levels of testing could risk an immediate second outbreak.
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