Nevada Abruptly Drops Statewide Mask Mandate (Days Before Super Bowl)
When you finally get around to ticketing the Nevada State Legislature off the old bucket list, don't forget to stock up on commemorative merch in the gift shop before you leave © David Calvert / The Nevada Independent
As reported in the Nevada Independent, “Nevadans can shed their face masks today, as the state lifts its mandate days ahead of an expected busy Super Bowl weekend in Las Vegas." After providing a bunch of statistics that don't really mean anything without a wider context (and a degree in immunology or something similar), they finally get to the heart of the matter about 3/4ths of the way through the article, claiming that “Pressure began mounting for Sisolak, who’s facing a re-election bid this year, after his Democratic colleagues in other states began easing their mask mandates.”
In floundering attempt to have his political cake and eat it too, the soon-to-be outgoing governor also urged his constituents to be nice to one another and then dropped this gold nugget of a quote: “I want kindness to be just as contagious as COVID is.” Wow, that is brutal, even for 2022. We'd love to know if the governor's speech writer was just trolling his boss with this one, or actually thought he came up with winner.
Anyways, it's always a good idea to let major sporting/gambling events dictate public health policy. In fact, it's even enshrined in the Hippocratic Oath: "I swear by Apollo Healer, by Asclepius, by Hygieia, by Panacea, and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and judgement, this oath and this indenture - unless there be a big sporting match and I have a hunch which side shall be victorious and need to layeth down some bones on the action." That Hippocrates was really ahead of his time....
On a side note, the most surprising thing in this entire story is the fact that those commemorative cloth masks from the Nevada State Legislature's 81st Session cost $9.95. In our best Chris Rock voice: $10 for cloth mask!?! Good Lord that's a lotta money! How about I give you 15 cents and you just let me wear it for a second?