Dear "Yep".

If you won't wear a mask, then stay the f**k home. What makes you feel anyone wants you here, snowflake ?

Stay off an airplane, too, if a mask is just TOO much of a burden for your tender psyche to bear.

Wearing a mask in public is not just that big a deal, get vaccinated and buy a mask that fits.

Absolutely cancel. Nevada should experience the consequences of their failed policy.

The body count says different ....

but hey, go unmasked all you want, don't get a vaccine, do whatever you want.

Just stay away from Las Vegas, okay ? The rules here do apply to visitors.

Yeah, everyone who is unwilling to wear a mask indoors in public in Nevada, aside from when eating and drinking, etc, can stay home back wherever the f**k they hail from.

If you don't understand the rules, don't play . Stay home if you can't figure out a safe way to enjoy Las Vegas.

Its not that we will not wear a mask we just were hoping the borders would be open and more Americans would be vaccinated so we wouldn't have to.

What makes you think Vegas does not want to go back to 1.4 million Canadians a year

I think we were all hoping but realize the **** show called the USA not going to be open for a while

Whoever tells you vegas is the same just with masks is incorrect. Take the most boring casino you can think of, every casino will feel that way. No one is yelling at the blackjack tables, way fewer people are in the sportsbooks, you will constantly be told to keep your mask on when you dont have your drink or cigar pressed to your lips. It’s like vegas if everyone was there to just play slots

Serious question - has this poster ever contributed to a meaningful discussion in this forum? Every time I see their screen name it is just trolling, exaggeration, hyperbole. What a cancer. Cant imagine being such a pathetic person.

The only shame of it is that the consequences of Nevada's failed policy will fall hardest on hourly casino workers, when they should fall on people like you

Gzesh, did you see today's bombshell about the delta variant being as contagious as chickenpox? The CDC report also suggests the vaccinated have the same viral load once they have covid as those who are not vaccinated, so the vaccinated become asymptomatic carriers.

https://www.yahoo.com/now/cdc-warns-...170433100.html

That's a big reason for consideration on cancelling our trip for next weekend.. kind of takes the "fun" out of the atmosphere

I don't write to feel good about myself. I write BECAUSE I feel good about myself, and hope there are others who also see a path forward out of this mess.

Spread love, not hate. You can never be too kind to those around you. Life is pretty simple when you boil it down to that.

As for your strategies for world domination, I guess you know a lot more about what's going to happen in the future than I do. I can't really effect what happens to the Supreme Court, or the senators, or the popular vote in future elections. Nor do I much care. I don't waste my time fretting about stuff that I can't control.

What I can control is what kind of parent I am, what kind of son I am, what kind of friend I am, and what kind of neighbor I am. All that matters to me is my day to day interactions with others, and what kind of example I set for those who are watching. So I'll choose focus on that. I'll leave the Supreme Court justices to you.

I think the border is open for travel to the US from Canada as of Aug 9 for fully vaccinated persons.

So, wear a mask , just like I think is required of you in Canada (?), and come on down.

Leave the fatback at home however, eh ?

Same rules apply to players who are US persons, wear a mask

..... and a pleasant day to you, too, bud.

The failure is NOT in a "mask required" policy, it is in the lack of vaccinations by the unwilling. Given that reality, I think the policy is reasonable.

Nevada attracts visitors from all over, including folks who do not bother to get vaccinated or refuse to wear masks because of ..... freedumb. So, masks have to be required for public health reasons.

I suspect, but do not know, whether Nevada's rising infection rate came from no-mask visitors .

An update on the mask failure:
There's no NL in Vegas bigger than 5/10 and no limit bigger than 20/40 although 40/80 looks like it might go. That's on a Friday night.

Meanwhile they're playing HS NL and 200/400 at the Borgata and 300/600 looks like it will go.

Why did the games move across the country? No failed mask mandate

Nevada is not willing to serve as the venue for a live , ongoing tourist version of Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

Yeah, it is a real bummer, but needs to be put in perspective. The part that should be understood in what I bolded in your post, "once they have covid"

I did not take the announcement to throw in the towel on recommending vaccines, just to emphasize the need to continue wearing masks in public even if vaccinated, because thet "delta is some tricky sh**" that would infect your vaccinated body more easily than it would if you don't mask up. I also didn't see where it reports, even with delta, the viral loads in a vaccinated person build as readily as in the non-vaccinated population.

So, I mask up when traveling, which I have been doing overseas to some more virulent countries, since November last year, and, I mask up in public at home here in Nevada, including while very occasionally playing poker I go to restaurants on a regular basis, but mask up when not actually eating/drinking and stay as far as possible from the other customers.

The delta news is a bad development, but it hasn't changed yet what I've been basically doing for traveling or at home the last 8 months or so. It may affect the opportunities going forward however.

This is a developing public health and individual/family health area clearly.

Take care and really try to not infect other people

To be honest, I think an outdoor vacation might be a better idea than coming to spend hours in a poker game here. What I think is ridiculous is the petulant posting itt that Nevada should not have reasonable mask rules, given the influx of all sorts of folks from all sorts of places. I also didn't see where it reports, even with delta, the viral loads in a vaccinated person build as readily as in the non-vaccinated population.

Why does Nevada have more lawyers per capita than NJ , which has more toxic waste sites ?

Because New Jersey got to choose first.

You could technically fly in but would require a test before entering and than require one before coming back to Canada as well as double vaccinated . The land border is still closed into the USA. The problem is if you test positive your stuck in Vegas for two weeks .

Ill just wait till 2022

Translation for those who don't speak Internet Child: "You said something I disagree with, and I'm a douchebag."

Damn, how did we let you slip this post past us? Rest assured that we are sending the Liberal Police to your place of residence forthwith. We will confiscate your computer and your chihuahua. You will be dragged off to our secure facility, where you will be confined in a small cell and forced to watch Trump rally videos 24/7.

And of course, your disappearance won't be reported, because we control the media. BWA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAA!!!!

But largely futile, I'm afraid. The thick-headed doofi (plural of doofus) who have disgorged their uh, thoughts on this thread have made it clear that they DO, in fact, have "natural immunity"--to reason and logic. Not to mention ethics and common decency. And they are, I fear, a representative sample of all too much of the country.

Nonetheless, thank you.

Mask wearing has picked up in the last few weeks in Pennsylvania even without a mandate.

There were some TRs last summer that addressed this. I understand that some are turned off by masks (regardless of their feelings of covid). However, I had a good time last year and I know others did, too.

Being vaccinated I would be fine with eating/drinking without a mask and minimal distancing. Last year I felt fine taking off my mask while eating because distancing was so huge (but would still keep it on when talking to anyone).

If you are that turned off by a mask, then stay home. There are relatively safe ways to do this. Adapt or die.

But only 50% of CDC employees were. Wonder if the govt mandate is going to change that, or if they get a pass.

From the WaPo article referenced:

Emphasis mine, because it's the key word. Especially because some people in the CDC have "an agenda".

I posted my own personal opinion, but by all means - feel free to link me to some good studies showing that masks work. And by that I don't mean the recently published CDC-report where they make up numbers out of thin air without any information about where they got the results from.

As you might have noticed by my location I have no other choice but to "stay the f**k home" since Europeans are not allowed into the US yet.

But for your reference, I am fully vaccinated with Pfizer, and just came home yesterday from 9 hours in airports and on planes, wearing a mask all the time. So I have no issues with complying, I just think it's unnecessary given the actual threat of the virus. But even if borders were to reopen, Las Vegas won't be getting my business (which was a lot the last 2 years before Covid, taking location into consideration) before the mask mandate is removed.

Why is it so difficult for you guys to discuss this topic without insulting the poster? Probably because you realize you have a flimsy case.

But have it your way, you are a ******* ****** and your post have been reported.

No. You are legitimately insane.