Signs Of Hope.

Presser with Gov Sisolak today. He opened bars in three NV counties (not the right one), but intimated that if data doesn't go sideways they may open statewide next week under increased monitoring.

I'm fine with that. I've always maintained since the bar shut down that if *a* bar is shown to be flouting the distancing and mask rules, by all means shut it down. What's not fair, and never has been, is to paint an entire industry with the same brush as the few who offend.

That would mean a bar reopen date of 8/3. Less than 3 weeks from my arrival date and 1 week to the day before my self-imposed go/no go date to take the trip or not. Cutting it close. If they DO reopen on the 3rd, that's enough time for the bars to get their shit together and be running nominally by the time I get there on the 22nd. 

Still a lot of ifs and maybes, but still a better situation than we were in an hour ago. I've been leaning in recent days toward taking the trip regardless; when it comes down to it I've had the thing on the books for months, I wouldn't have to juggle any plans around that way work or personally, and at the end of the day it's better to be in Vegas than being at work that week. Pushing the date just puts me back at point zero anyway, back where I was in March hoping everything normalizes. That just hurts my brain too much to think about having to reload.

But this is a positive development and hopefully with a little luck (in this luckless year) it may come off as a more or less normal trip after all. Or as normal as a Vegas trip in a pandemic can be, anyway. The save will go ahead as if this is a normal trip, the planning as well, and unless planet 9 strikes the earth between now and the 22nd, I'm probably a goer.