\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\u2018People are Dying\u2019<\/h2>\n
As the mayor noted in Wednesday\u2019s statement, she challenged Sisolak\u2019s shutdown decision a year ago. She echoed her opposition on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe decision by one individual, which required no vote by the Nevada Legislature or any other elected body, promised to cause undue hardship to hundreds of thousands of Nevadans,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Goodman called the recent 35 percent capacity limit \u201cbizarre,\u201d noting that one year after the first COVID-19 cases were diagnosed, \u201cOur businesses are still only operating at 50 percent capacity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last year in announcing temporary shutdowns, the governor said, \u201cPeople are dying. It\u2019s incumbent upon the citizens of this state to take this seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,147 Nevadans have died of COVID-19 complications, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.<\/i><\/p>\n
By mid-March of this year, 360,245 people out of an adult population of almost 2.4 million had been fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman has criticized the governor\u2019s sole power to shut down casinos and other businesses, saying it \u201csmacks of tyranny.\u201d Goodman said Wednesday that people in some states have been \u201cforced to subjugate their freedoms to the will of a single individual, seemingly in perpetuity.\u201d Goodman posted a three-and-a-half-page statement Wednesday on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":167691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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