LogFAQs > #939226360

The Wave Master posted...

The bad news is our dumb ass governor, and the dumb ass Mississippi Gaming Commission has decided to allow casinos to reopen at 50% capacity starting on Thursday

The unfortunate fact of life is that, no matter how unsafe it may be in the long run, we literally cannot afford to stay on full lockdown until everything is over, because that will absolutely take months, and by the time we all leave our houses the economy will be a smoking ruin and we'll all be forced to eat our neighbors and form feral tribes that wear rusty car parts for clothes.

Phased opening of businesses and public locations is pretty much an absolute must. The key is just doing it properly, so we continue keeping the curve flattened and don't overwhelm hospitals (ie, everyone ending quarantine all at once basically puts us right back at square one and the entirety of the last few months will effectively have been completely worthless).

Unfortunately, our entire political system has essentially left us with a government designed for extreme stances and token gestures, so for the most part it's incapable of handling things properly either on the federal or state level (and that's an institutional problem, not a political party problem).

I'd tend to agree that casinos shouldn't be the primary business rushing to high-priority returns to work, but I'm sure there are people who would disagree (casino owners, gambling addicts, casino employees who need to get back to work so they have money to eat, etc). But that's going to be the main problem in the coming weeks/months - justifying just which businesses should open and which should stay closed for now. Because it's easy to divide things into "essential" and "non-essential", but much more complicated to get everyone to agree on "pretty important" and "not so important".
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