“I’ve had people pick their nose and scratch their private parts and then they pick up the chips,” she said. “I’ve had people shoot NyQuil on the table because they’ve got the flu. But since they’re in Vegas, they’re going to play.”<\/p>\n
Unite Here will hold a video conference tomorrow with health and sanitation guidelines for gaming companies. The call will be attended by leaders from the Culinary Union, the Las Vegas Unite Here chapter, and local Unite Here affiliates representing Atlantic City and Mississippi.<\/p>\n
The recommendations, the union says, will “reflect direction from various public agencies and hospitality employers.”<\/p>\n
One issue will be whether to permit gamblers to smoke inside. The World Health Organization says that smokers are more vulnerable to COVID-19 because the act of smoking means that fingers (and possibly contaminated cigarettes) are more in contact with a person’s lips.<\/p>\n
Smokers also tend to cough more than nonsmokers, meaning an asymptomatic person could spread the disease at a higher rate.<\/p>\n
\nHow is it safe if smokers still smoke and blow their germs out in the casino?” asked one Casino.org <\/i>reader. Another: “It’s not fun to walk through a cloud of smoke when entering any building. But now it won’t be just an annoyance, but also a serious medical concern.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The CDC <\/i>says there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Las Vegas casino workers are in no rush to return to work, as they remain concerned for their personal safety in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Unite Here, the union that represents workers in the US casino, hotel, and food service industries, says approximately 95 percent of its more than 300,000 members are presently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":134846,"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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