Covid19, Casinos, and Me.

Since the start of the lock down, as well as COVID19 spreading, I've pretty much kept myself home except to go out for groceries. Where I live we have 6 people residing; three of us are working, and three of us are not. We've all gone through the same thing, who is an essential worker, who isn't... Why is unemployment not coming? Where is our relief check. We're all in this together.

Yesterday my family and I met up together; we live 40 miles apart roughly. We decided to try and adventure to a store to go look at some clothing for my Mom. Burlington Coat Factory was completely empty with nothing but baron shelves on each aisle. It was downright eerie. So, instead of going to another store, we drove to get lunch at the local casino and boy was it an adventure!

Fun fact. At the Nugget Casino in Sparks, and many others in the area, you've got to get your temperature taken before they will let you in the building. I had made a joke to the security officer about it "feels like I'm in prison" or something along those lines, and he jokingly laughed back "put your hands behind your back." Which, even now I realize, was probably a poor joke in my taste. I admit it. However, it was very strange.

Casinos in Sparks, and even Nevada alone are almost always bustling with people, the sounds of the machines, people coughing from smoking, drunk people making noise and even people coming and going to Starbucks. It's FILLED WITH NOISE. Not that day. It was completely quiet. We walked through the casino and it was like a ghost town. Everyone however was wearing their masks at the state has now made it where EVERYONE is required to wear masks according to RGJ.



With everything going on the restaurant was only able to offer a shorter subsidized menu compared to their large menu. Unfortunately, this did make our outing a little disappointing too, as our favorite menu items were not the same as they were before. Instead of having a large menu, we received smaller paper printed menus. Which, I wont lie, was kind of nice in itself to have only a few things to choose from, but not a whole lot that sounded too good. Though their food was alright, the service staff, I could tell was unhappy. The server we had was not a very happy camper.

It wasn't until we were leaving that she seemed like she was in a better mood asking us if our food was okay. Ironically, the woman who was not the server, and was actually our bus person, made my experience a little better. She asked me if I wanted another drink, she asked us how our food was, and even told us to have a nice day as she passed us by later on the casino floor. That's the person I would have tipped, had I been able to.

I know it seems silly to complain in a time like this, and I don't mean to. It's just sad to think that the world has lost so much of it's moral, and hope, that people are starting to fall apart. Our world can only get better if we do, and we can only get better if we kick Covid in the butt. I hope that you guys and gals will try and get past the annoyance part and put on your masks. It takes two seconds, and nobody is saying you have to wear it forever.

There are so many reasons to wear a mask. What are yours? 

One of the people in this house has COPD, so for her, I wear a mask everywhere and anywhere I go.

I have had bronchitis and pneumonia before - so I wear a mask for myself.

3/6 people in this household work within the public - so we wash our hands frequently and use hand sanitizer when available. [ I have a bottle in our bedroom ]

I also wear it for:

My family

My friends

Myself &

You.