8. “In my opinion, you have to go ahead,” Mayor Carolyn Goodman (I-Las Vegas) declared. “Every day you get up, it’s a gamble.” Goodman wanted casino and hotel employees to return to work — and thereby serve as a “control group” to determine the effectiveness of social distancing. When studying a disease, she said, “you have a placebo that gets them water and sugar, and then you get those that actually get the shot. We would love to be that placebo side so you have something to measure against.”
7. “I just saw a nice piece in The Lancet, arguing that the opening of schools may only cost us 2-3 percent in terms of total mortality,” Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiothoracic surgeon and talk show host, declared on Fox News. “Any life is a life lost, but to get every child back into school where they’re safely being educated, being fed and making the most out of their lives with a theoretical risk on the backside — it might be a trade-off some folks would consider.” A few days later, Dr. Oz said he “misspoke.”
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