Venetian startup plan

[Norm]

-- Thermal scanners at every resort entry point. Secondary screenings if necessary.
-- Electrostatic sprayers will hospital-grade disinfectant to be used in high-risk areas
-- UV lights to be used in decontaminating shipments etc.
-- Hundreds of hand sanitizing stations throughout the property
-- Allowing guests to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including face masks. Guests will not be able to wear whole-face masks.
-- Emergency Medical Technicians on the property 24/7.
-- Physical distancing for guests and team members whenever possible, including at check-in and guests services desks, in elevators, on gondolas, and in restaurants and bars.
-- Physical distancing also in meeting and convention spaces, pool areas and team member back areas.
-- No more buffets. All food will be served individually plated.
-- Beverages and snacks will be provided by an attendant.
-- Spacing between table games and slot machines. Casino chips will be cleaned approximately every 2 hours.
-- Employees will also receive additional training on COVID-19 safety and there will be required temperature checks at every team member entrance. PPE usage required.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/coronaviru...ing-commitment

- Max 3 players at a table
https://news3lv.com/news/local/venet...-for-reopening

[UK-21]

I've heard that there's also support in Sin City for developing a new resort wide prop bet - how many people become infected with Covid-19 as a result of visiting a casino property in any 24 hour period. Could be like guessing the number of jelly beans in the candy jar? The person to guess closest to the actual scoops the lot? The city authority takes a 10% cut of the prize fund of course.

[Norm]

Frankly, I don't see how washing chips every two hours can work.

[DSchles]

Frankly, I don't see how washing chips every two hours can work.

Of course it can't. Guy in the next seat is sick. Bets a quarter and breaks. His germs are all over the chip. Dealer locks up the chip. You win your hand, also $25. Dealer reaches into the rack and gives you your neighbor's infected chip. What earthly good does washing every two hours do??

Don

[Norm]

There is a suggestion on another forum that I endorse this plan. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to be clear, I wouldn't step foot in the casino unless the global rate of infection drops dramatically. I'm just passing on info.

[DSchles]

There is a suggestion on another forum that I endorse this plan. Nothing could be further than the truth. Just to be clear, I wouldn't step foot in the casino unless the global rate of infection drops dramatically. I'm just passing on info.

Absolutely shocking to me the number of people in our poll indicating they'd go back into a casino in a week or two. Never realized we had that many people here who value their lives so poorly. Very sad.

Don

[albee]

I mentioned it before - chipless play. It already exists, put the cash in and you have money to electronically bet. You win, they pay your account, you lose, they take it. I really do think this is the future, playing blackjack cards face up and betting electronically. When you're done, press the pay out button and get your TITO.

[Counting_Is_Fun]

There is a suggestion on another forum that I endorse this plan. Nothing could be further from the truth. Just to be clear, I wouldn't step foot in the casino unless the global rate of infection drops dramatically. I'm just passing on info.

It's not the global rate of infection that concerns me...so few people have even been tested that the number of infected people is surely very large. And that actually is a good thing, if we hope for some herd immunity. Like we do for most any other disease.
I won't go back until we have a better understanding of the global DEATH RATE. Which seems to be way less than we thought, and affecting mostly those with underlying conditions, at least from the data we have so far.

[UK-21]

I won't go back until we have a better understanding of the global DEATH RATE. Which seems to be way less than we thought . . .

I think you (us all to be honest) need to take the reported Covid caused fatality figures with a large pinch of salt. Certainly, in the UK, we are only now discussing related deaths amongst the elderly living in residential care facilities, and without any widespread programme of testing it's difficult to pin down any cause and effect.

Although I made a glib posting earlier, for my two bob's worth I think anyone who frequents places where there are large gatherings of people is just inviting trouble. As for the Venetian's anti-cross infection measures, ask any expert in this field and they'll tell you as tight as they may be it only takes a few instances of infected people to get through and the games over. The plans around sanitising the chips every two hours is nonsense. Are people really that thick? That's a rhetorical question as without a doubt the answer is "yes". I have sympathies for those people who work there, and who are told they have to come back to work and risk becoming an infection statistic or lose their jobs (and thereby possibly never working in the industry again?). As usual, it all comes back to freeing up the flow of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ . . .

[Wave]

Okay, all this COVID-19 stuff is far outside my bailiwick. But, amid all of the seemingly contradictatory data regarding the COVID-19 virus, mutation to multiple strains with varying degrees of impact on humans does not seem to me to be outside the realm of a possibly reasonable explanation.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/corona...ted-30-strains

[Counting_Is_Fun]

Okay, all this COVID-19 stuff is far outside my bailiwick. But, amid all of the seemingly contradictatory data regarding the COVID-19 virus, mutation to multiple strains with varying degrees of impact on humans does not seem to me to be outside the realm of a possibly reasonable explanation.

https://futurism.com/neoscope/corona...ted-30-strains

Every flu strain is different every year. Maybe corona will be similar...probably.
The true death rate of this new virus is completely unknown yet, because hardly anyone has been tested.
It is starting to look like the true death rate from Corona is much smaller than expected. More like a very bad flu season. Though maybe slightly more deadly than flu for the elderly or those in high-risk groups. Though we don't know for sure until all the data and testing is done.

[Wave]

Every flu strain is different every year. Maybe corona will be similar...probably.
The true death rate of this new virus is completely unknown yet, because hardly anyone has been tested.
It is starting to look like the true death rate from Corona is much smaller than expected. More like a very bad flu season. Though maybe slightly more deadly than flu for the elderly or in high-risk groups. Though we don't know for sure until all the data and testing is done.

Agreed.

[DailyDubble]

Here is a preview of what a gaming table could look like when casinos re-open

https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/casinos-gaming/las-vegas-firm-creates-safety-shields-for-use-at-casino-slots-tables-2016807/