On the always busy, always noisy, never sleeping Las Vegas strip, you can now hear birds chirping.
In this April 16, 2020, photo, Chris Morehouse drinks a beer while performing as Elvis at the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign along the Strip in Las Vegas. "I'm just singing for the sign," said Morehouse who was at times performing save the few locals who occasionally took advantage of the eerie silence to take photos at the sign.
Instead of hosting throngs of visitors for one of the busiest seasons of the year, with March Madness drawing swarms to sportsbooks, or the now-scuttled plan to host the NFL draft this weekend, ferrying players in boats to a red carpet stage on the Bellagio lake, Las Vegas is trying to survive. The politically independent mayor of Las Vegas, Carolyn Goodman, has issued public pleas calling for the Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak to end the statewide shutdown of casinos and non-essential businesses, which she calls “total insanity.”
“We will rebuild our economy. Las Vegas will continue to thrive. But I can’t do that if I lose more people,” he said. She’s living off her savings and the unemployment, and also supporting her adult daughter, who is on an unpaid maternity leave, and a new grandson, who was born days after the casinos were shuttered.Ireland said workers at her casino weren’t given any guidance about when they’d be back or what it might be like then they return. For now, she doesn’t think Las Vegas is ready.
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