When should I go back to Casinos?

Quote: WTflush

Sorry if you've already been asked 300 times or answered this in another thread, but do you know where/how you got the virus?

Well my brother and I both got sick. So happens the condo complex we live has a mini outbreak or cluster of cases. 8 total. 6 of us in our 20 and 30's and 2 older dudes about 60. One of the older guys was in the hospital for a couple weeks.

So we heard about the first guy testing positive on a Wednesday. My brother began to have symptoms 2 days later. He was sick for just about a week and it was pretty mild, Cold and flu like symptoms, mild fever. I got sick 5 days after my brother and was sick off and on, more severe, but still fairly mild for 3 weeks.

So going by the timeline it would seem I got it from my brother. And that is what I have repeatedly told him to made him feel bad. lol But the truth is because people are different, showing symptoms anywhere from 2-14 days after exposure, I could have been infected first and given it to him. Either way, the jackass in the condo down the hall is probably to blame for everyone in our building. He is a poker player and stayed in the casinos right up until closing day.

Quote: kewlj

Well my brother and I both got sick. So happens the condo complex we live has a mini outbreak or cluster of cases. 8 total. 6 of us in our 20 and 30's and 2 older dudes about 60. One of the older guys was in the hospital for a couple weeks.

So we heard about the first guy testing positive on a Wednesday. My brother began to have symptoms 2 days later. He was sick for just about a week and it was pretty mild, Cold and flu like symptoms, mild fever. I got sick 5 days after my brother and was sick off and on, more severe, but still fairly mild for 3 weeks.

So going by the timeline it would seem I got it from my brother. And that is what I have repeatedly told him to made him feel bad. lol But the truth is because people are different, showing symptoms anywhere from 2-14 days after exposure, I could have been infected first and given it to him. Either way, the jackass in the condo down the hall is probably to blame for everyone in our building. He is a poker player and stayed in the casinos right up until closing day.

I literally lol'd about you giving your brother a hard time. Good to see someone sort of making light of the awful situation. Glad you guys pulled through.




I decided to go play that game last night. It appears at least a dozen other people know about it. My partner and I eventually got to play and by some miracle we won almost $20k in 6ish hours which was waayyy above EV.
Overall I was disappointed with how the casino was handling things, they claimed masks were required but most people were wearing them around their neck or had them dangling from one ear. I also did not get my temperature checked on the way in, it seems whoever was in charge of that was off for the night (it was late) or busy handling something else. The casino was also way busier than I expected. I'm a little frightened but if I had to bet I would take the under on my chances of contracting the coronavirus.

Quote: WTflush

...they claimed masks were required but most people were wearing them around their neck or had them dangling from one ear. I also did not get my temperature checked on the way in, it seems whoever was in charge of that was off for the night (it was late) or busy handling something else. The casino was also way busier than I expected.

Once the initial attention wears off, this will increasingly become the way it's done everywhere, especially in venues like casinos where the customer is more eager to get to the table or the slot machine than he is to worry about other things.

The temperature-checker and the Desanitization Engineer are the lowest-paid, least-incentivized employees at the joint, and how many folks are going to tip them? They will be the first on the list to go, or to just not bother coming in to work today. Is a casino going to shut the entrance when the relief thermometer operator doesn't show up?

Watch the folks around you when a seat opens up at a table or a slot machine becomes available. Does that floor person do his job and re-sanitize the spot before someone else takes it? Does the dealer pay you in "dirty" chips that have been swept up from the last losing bets on the table, placed by a possibly infected person? And do you yourself care either way?

Add to this growing lack of concern on the part of both the casino and its patrons, in "sovereign lands" they set their own rules. Most of the marketing I've seen reminds me of the "SANITIZED FOR YOUR PROTECTION" banners draped across toilet seats in a hotel. All for show.

As proof of this, totally unrelated to the politics, perspective or point of view of the participants, watch any video of the unrest spreading across the country. How much social distancing did you see on the part of police, peaceful demonstrators, or looters? Many police were not wearing masks, and I'd bet that a lot of the demonstrators wore masks more to obscure their identity than to be safe.

When all this is over you can go to the casino in physical but while there are many online casinos that are still online