Because It Wouldn't Be A 2020 Trip W/O Worry.
I had hopes. Hopes that this upcoming Turkey trip would be, despite everyone wearing masks, more or less normal. Meaning bars would be open, most if not all of the strip would be open, and a sense of if not normalcy, at least calm and "Vegasness" would be back. After the June trip of less than half the strip resorts open, and the August trip of all the non-food serving bars closed, I feel like I deserve a normal trip for fuck's sake.
Now comes word from Nevada's esteemed governor that due to a spike in cases there, he may need to take "severe" action after a period of time if Nevadans don't reduce cases and curb the spread. The deadline for this to happen, or not, and for that more severe action to come into being, would be the day I arrive for the Turkey trip.
Thus far, his "action" has been to arbitrarily punish the resort and bar/lounge industries with closures and restrictions like those that were in place in August. Which, for me, would be another fucked up trip. Not being able to sit in bars or at bars in restaurants impacts the fuck out of my enjoyment of a trip. I could roll into Vegas that Tuesday the 24th and find all the stand alone bars closed again and my hype level for the 4 nights right down the shitter.
If bars close again, I might be forced to buy food again in order to be seated in a lounge. I would be unable to interact with bar staff, and I'm the perceived old lonely dude sitting alone at a table on Thanksgiving week just to be able to be served liquor. Still would be preferable to sitting at home for 4 days staring at my computer, but it would drain the life out of things for me to a great extent.
So now I'm thrown right back into the uncertainty net I've been in the rest of the year. Do I drive in and find 80% of a normal trip on tap, or do I drive in to another very sub-optimal trip like the August one where I'm struggling to find anything fun to do. It's already likely to be a ghost town, if it's a ghost town w/o bars it probably isn't even worth going, but I might not even know my fate until I arrive. I find it highly unlikely resorts in total close again unless cases spike though the roof, but who knows. Worst case scenario I might get there and I have to turn right back around because everything is locked down again.
I would have to think if Sisolak does shut anything related to tourism down, it would take a few days to implement so hopefully if he announced something on a Tuesday the resort's status wouldn't change until at least the Friday or hopefully Saturday, especially as it's Thanksgiving week. Then I could at least get my trip in without having to scrounge for drinks like last time.
As with every other trip this year, the best I can do is hope for the best. Hope the fucking idiot republicans in Nevada wise up against their own addled brains and wear a fucking mask the next two weeks. Hope the cases drop enough that any decision to cut or close is shelved or at least put off (though that might affect the Xmas trip, which I can't even begin to worry about yet).
Hope for things to work out positively. Which has been far from the case this fucked up Vegas year.
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