Live! Philadelphia<\/a> opened in January of 2021 — was ordered to close, while its neighboring competitors were not.<\/p>\nPennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D) ordered the state’s commercial casinos to suspend operations in mid-March of 2020. They began reopening on a regional approach in June. But Rivers remained closed on city orders until July 17.<\/p>\n
Last November, Philadelphia ordered Rivers to close from November 20 through January 15 because of a COVID-19 spike. The state’s other commercial casinos were only closed on Wolf’s commands from December 12 through January 4.<\/p>\n
Public Retaliation<\/b><\/h2>\n
Some city residents are none too glad to hear face masks are once again required in most indoor places throughout downtown.<\/p>\n
A few attitudes on the City of Philadelphia’s Twitter post announcing the mask reimplementation include, “Lol funny. Not wearing a mask,” “Completely ridiculous,” and “118 hospitalized out of 1.8 million residents.”<\/p>\n
https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAdlerian\/status\/1425656971919826949<\/p>\n
Others, however, cheered the directive.<\/p>\n
“This is a fair and reasonable request to make of common-sense Philadelphians. Nobody likes this but it’s what we must do to beat the COVID crisis which is still causing a lot of harm,” opined resident Edith Horwitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Philadelphia casinos are once again requiring employees and guests to wear face masks while indoors. But Rivers Casino and Live! Casino and Hotel didn’t make the decision on its own. The City of Philadelphia is experiencing rising COVID-19 case counts from the delta variant. In response, city officials said yesterday that the indoor face mandate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":182592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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