Justice the strip gone dark was scary thing to see give us some adjectives to describe the mood there when the shutdown 1st began. It was bleak it was like it goes down here were used to having people around all the time that we proudly. As the closure went on i can tell you a big thing for locals was to take their bikes down to the strip and ride up and down the street and just look at all the empty you know with all the driveways ordered up and blocked off because weve never been on the strip and there havent been people there and not. In a whole other way not a great opportunity not a great way to see it but people here definitely took advantage of the fact that everything there was shut down. Yeah and in normal times you locals tend to avoid the strip so that must of been a cool site with us in spirit here is our sister in the talk radio family another familiar voice out there heidi harris thought she had the flu on thursday found out different on monday and in between she says she had a weekend she hopes she will never really live so shes tested positive and just another person i know who has caught the virus. Back in april heidi told the radio trade press and you might have read this if i were a renter in a hospitality oriented job id leave vegas now i would not wait until everyone runs for the exits and she is such a booster of las vegas i was struck by that john did you see such an exodus and how up to speed is the Hospitality Industry now that youre reopening there. Well i want to wish i do well shes also a very good friend of mine and it was caught in the air that she had tested positive over the weekend she has a very unique perspective being one of the few people who were born and raised here in las vegas so her take on it its different than a lot of people you would have thought there was a mass exodus here because this affected the whole nation and everything was shut down there wasnt anywhere for hospitality workers to go you couldnt go from your casino job here which you would be furloughed from the teller casino in another major city because those hotels and casinos were closed also so there wasnt that match exodus that you would have thought would have happened a lot of people talked about wanting to get out or going somewhere else so they realized they couldnt and now things are opening back up our Unemployment Rate still unbelievably high of 25. 3 percent for may but its down from the highest that it was in and only nevada has added jobs faster than any other state in the country in the last month. I am real glad to hear that because i love vegas and i miss it a lot clearly the traffic since the reopening there is good to see but in some of the videos in the pictures weve seen back east here the casino mood almost looks buzz kill to me im seeing not 5 people sitting at a blackjack table but 3 of them and they seem to be enclosed in plexiglas barriers that look like the cone of silence from get smart and its not that relaxed camaraderie where youd sit there with 4 other strangers for an hour and a half and sip a couple of beers and swap a couple of stories and win and lose let me rephrase my 1st question give me some adjectives to describe the mood you see there among the funsters who have already returned. I think its still fine its not the biggest that youre used to and youre right there are fewer people at the table games thats by design for social distancing there are the plexiglas barriers if the nevada gaming control board Just Announced yesterday theyre going to require casinos to make anyone playing a table or card game where a Face Covering out which had been the rule in the past but they sold videos to where you see crowds of people in casinos not social distancing in not Wearing Masks so the gaming control board wants to get a hold of that so we can keep the transmission of covert 1000 down here. It is a different last name yes i think it will still be a fun las vegas which youre right youre not going to be sitting there playing blackjack and when you get 21 high 5 the guy next to you because theres a wall thats right out so its not going to have that excitement craps is what i always look at when i think of how much fun i dont know how to play it but it looks like the most fun game ever everyone is cheering and yelling and screaming and big crowds of people you wont see or have that anymore but its still hot it still i know you can get anywhere in the United States watch now but its still a different and unique experience here in las vegas. Yeah and weve seen the same thing in the big casinos nearby here in connecticut theyve had to reopen with so many precautions its just not the same were speaking with john shaffer from radio in las vegas a mighty 720 and 101. 5 i believe f. M. Our governor here john has asked us for our patience as rhode island reopens and she has said the last thing we want to do is shut down again and your governor has crowed that after all the precautions that are put into place your gov says i dont think you will find a safer place than las vegas but hes quick to add that vegas could pull back if it causes any type of problem john does las vegas have one chance to get this right absolutely if its not done right 1st time and things would have to shut down again or people there or they werent safe here or afraid to come here. It would be devastating people would not want to come back then because again if gambling is a lawyer after you can do that a lot of places others want to guess but if you feel like youre going to come here and then go home and get sick that isnt really going to be a great time not just for tourists but or a huge Convention Business we have here as you mentioned it at the beginning of the show c. E. O. s will be back in 2021 at our new weisss large Convention Center of the expansion that will be done by then but if people dont feel safe coming to conventions here in those large spaces and staying in hotels then it would be devastating even more devastating to our enemy so yes but the other is right this is a safe place to be but we do only have one shot to get it right and he emphasized during a press Conference Last Week that were not moving into phase 3 because of me up to weve had here in cases to do more testing and more people being here and we are going to take it slowly before anything else gets to be opened up. You have fingers crossed vegas was on such a roll where else do you get a National HockeyLeague Expansion team that goes all the way to the stanley cup in their 1st season and youve got n. F. L. Football coming and so fingers are crossed john im down to about 30 seconds so ill ask you for the quick answer because i might have seen you there in april if they hadnt cancelled the National Association of Broadcasters Convention but donald trump 2020 donald trump lost 2016 house the look in there and now. I will say that it looks the same as he did in 2016. Once already moved her definitely more balloon out of everyone in 2016 it will let you know one congressman and more than 2 that it was ready a done. Yeah well when you think about all thats changed in the last several months november is still a long way away John Shaffer Katie w. N. Las vegas come again pal good to talk to you. Thanks. Now an update on an important story weve been following all along and if youre a parent you will want to hear this east cigarette use among adolescents has increased substantially since the introduction of new pod based east cigarettes and this has prompted the u. S. Surgeon general to declare youve a ping an epidemic now theres a new study by the harvard th shand school of Public Health published by the journal of the American Metals medical association pediatrics says that despite lower levels of harmful ingredients these pod based east cigarettes have a higher potential to get youth and young adults addicted then other devices now these sleek pod ease cigarettes are easy to conceal kids pop in a replaceable nicotine cartridge that comes in flavors like mango and mint heres the problem according to these reports this pod design delivers high doses of nicotine in low ph form which is less harsh compared to the higher ph nicotine found in other east cigarettes thats kind of techie but the bottom line is it encourages deeper inhalations and this study also found that adolescents using pod based east cigarettes were more likely than other east cigarette users to vapor daily and they have more symptoms of nicotine independence back in january we spoke with a psychologist and n. Y. U. Professor dr raymond who has coauthored a handbook on tobacco dependence treatment. As a Behavioral Scientist youre keenly aware of susceptibility to trends and the power of peer pressure how do we tell young people dont even try it can wait i dont think we can we would be successful with with that message alone i think its a good idea to you know to to warn people of the risks and to educate them and so the they can make an educated decision and choice but i think the real issue is you know how do we keep these products out of the hands of you know kids essentially youth if you are a parent dont assume your kids are too young to have this talk the big brand is jewel j u u l and there are others coming up as if we havent spent the entire Spring Season of voiding one Health Problem here come summer and a bunch of bombers you will want to avoid the doctor is in when we come back this is the big picture on our t. America. We go to work so straight home. 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Secret prisons are not usually what comes to mind when thinking about europe however even the most prosperous can be deceived weve been busy roads on the way to view the houses were allegedly prison was located and the only people had access to the story investigators sure held the uncovered the darkest dealings of the secret services but i mean there you go away to. In. D. C. Maybe a sore knee for. Trying for justice on a. Note no crown. No shots. Actually felt. No. Point ch your thirst for action. After being cooped up all spring hunkered down during the pandemic we want to get out there and have summer but should wait what are the summer time bombers you want to avoid the proper social distancing protocols and what about this little bugger this is the dreaded. Scapular s. The deer tick barely visible to the naked eye and if youre sharing the Great Outdoors with bambi you could pick up one of these techs by simply brushing up against the same shrubbery blood is on this. Itll critters menu and it will gladly swap some of yours for the bacteria that causes lyme disease and the threat is particularly bad this season how to stay safe from him and other summertime bombers lets ask dr joe alton who with his advance Nurse Practitioner wife amy hosts the survival medicine website doom and bloom dot net check it out it is a rich trove of posts and podcasts and videos and they have authored among other books the survival medicine handbook the essential guide for when medical help is not on the way joe welcome back to the big picture so thanks for having me glad to be here ive been following your website since you were here summer before last and with all weve been through lately in terms of serve the mindset that weve kind of adopted while weve been in stay at home mode isolated were taking lots less for granted these days what questions and issues are you hearing more about lately from your followers and patients. You know holland ive been watching out for emerging viral threats for gosh over a decade sure enough my 1st one line report about covert 1000 was on january 7th when i talked about a mysterious pneumonia that sickened the almost 60 people in a place called google and china now people are just into a new normal after millions of cases of close to half a 1000000 deaths people are asking me if theyre going to have to walk on eggshells for the rest of their lives and how to navigate this new normal were also seeing real concern about a 2nd wave of code 19. Yeah and to that point weve seen the corona vices cases served in areas that led to the reopening. Can this cabin fever that were trying to shake off come back to haunt us especially after the demonstrations on the riots in these trump rallies is that 2nd wave inevitable no matter how careful we are. Well gosh its pretty clear that people are weary of staying on donning mass avoiding the restaurants movie theaters malls and other staples of normal medical Society American society i call this coded fatigue lets face it the new normal compares pretty poorly to the good old days but the factors that lead us to social distance and wearing Face Coverings they havent changed much in the 12 punch of code of the t. V. And mass demonstrations is certainly going to hamper efforts to prevent a 2nd wave so much so that i consider a 2nd wave to be in evitable and maybe it worm wave way we did with the spanish flu of a century ago they have 3 waves each one more deadly than the 1st reopening to quickly make large numbers of new cases but staying in permanent lock down must eventually throw the nation any nation into a major up an economic depression the balance is so delicate so delicate holland that a perfect solution is almost impossible to achieve either option is fraught with risk. Put your finger on it when you talk about covert fatigue just today i was exposed to some research that says we are getting weary of these well intended gentle covert pertinent commercials that are on t. V. You know we know that these are exceptional times no matter how gently its phrased but squint into the crystal ball best case suppose we get a vaccine sometime between now and next spring if baseball begins when it should in april do like dare go to a red sox game in a packed stadium would you. You know i think weve reached a point where some attempts are going to be made to return to some kind of normal schedule but with television and Online Access youll see less crowded games i talk to one of the local n. F. L. Team doctors down here and hes definitely not going on road trips with the team and isnt even sure phillips and games and if he isnt it may not be a good idea to go yourself unless you become someone so ingrained to wearing a face mask that you can last for hours and thats not so easy down here in south florida where games might be played in 90 degree weather still if he can somehow maintain distance its a possibility for those fans that are well fanatical i tense up when im using a self Service Gas Pump how many other hands have hit the mustard and relish and catch up thing at the ballpark i think this is always going to be in the back of our mind respect were speaking with dr joe alton from doom and gloom dot net where you can sign up for his a survival medicine newsletter which is pretty cool about lyme disease where i live here in new england the deer population has run amok and we were actually hoping for a less mild winter than we had for that hard freeze which never came and would have clobbered the tx tell us about the lyme disease which can be rough if you get it how to avoid it and what to do if you spot a tech. Wate at the areas where most lyme disease carrying ticks and lived to have had a mild winter as you say and numbers of deer have been going up that means an uptick pardon the pun in the population of deer ticks ticks latch on to the skin of a host and then they transmit various vibes microbes a number of different ones to humans and animals through their infected saliva including the one that causes lyme disease last year there are close to 300000 cases of lyme disease in the u. S. And thats triple the number of 20 years ago its likely ticks are going to keep expanding their territory every here so this is here to stay an ounce of prevention they say is more of a pound of cure and this old saying is both very very relevant when it comes to infections called white tick bites its important to wear long pants and sleeves as well as thick socks and high top boots but if i you should talk your pants into them walking into the center area of trails if youre on a wilderness hike tips are waiting on leaves and grass fed and things like that so you want to stay right in the middle of that trail you want to use insect repellents like 20 percent deet or greater on skin and apply something called per method or in insecticide not to your skin but the clothing have shoes and camping gear 24 to 48 hours before using them now to remove a tick thats important your goal is to remove the end tire to including the head and mouth so for that use a fine tip tweezer to grab it as close to the skin surface as possible and then pull straight up with the steady even pressure dull twister who goes you might leave part of the tick under the skin and then clean the bite area thoroughly with alcohol iodine or even just so who are. Urban legend had it that you light a match blow it out and touch him with a hot match but thats a myth right. Well i think that its one of if if it does do something for the tick and youre going only burn the part of the take thats outside in the mouth and the head in the head are really almost under the skin so youll kill the body but you wont feel the inside and there is a subjective saliva that could be in the head and the mouth areas that could still transmit the disease so i would not consider that the top method of remove and even before you feel bitten you may have been any a spot what looks like the target Department Store logo its kind of a bulls eye right. Youre absolutely right about 70 to 80 percent of people will develop a spreading rash that indeed looks like a bulls eye the the middle of the bulls eye where the sick by actually occurred and then it spreads a you have to clear skin then you have some another line other circle that spreads out over the course of a number of days. I caught it early several years ago and they. Gave me antibiotics and alls well that ends well but if you do see that if you have been bitten you want to get attended right away correct. Yeah actually i think its a really good idea the good news though is that it takes a good 24 hours for the tick to transmit lyme disease so i think if you take a shower after going outdoors right after going outdoors i think thats a pretty good start now once a bacteria has been transmitted of course symptoms like that bulls eye rash that you mention can occur anywhere from 3 days to a month afterwards fever and chills muscle aches seeing and joint pain or other things that accompanying it and the problem is that its important to know that lyme disease might be misdiagnosed its symptoms are mild or especially if by was it just wasnt seen by your Health Care Provider make sure to tell your doctor if you feel bad that youve been outside in a tick intensive area antibiotics like as you mentioned like docs i am a mock fill in can help that they use them wrote a couple of quick questions while we still have time sunburn Serious Business correct. Wate how holland you might not consider the sun and heat to be a Natural Disaster but it can cause mass casualties as it did in europe when tens of thousands of people died of exposure not in the middle ages but in the year 2003 in the United States you can expect dozens the succumb to heat related illness pretty much every year and the ill effects are called heat exhaustion after a mild to moderate heat stroke of their severe heat stroke and permanently disable or even kill it to make them youve got to cool them off as quickly as possible to get a good chance of a recovery you prevent the problems that is very important by staying well hydrated wearing sunscreen loose fitting like clothing and avoiding major exertion in the middle of the day. Yeah butter up good dermatologist tells me because the sun burns a bit of a time bomb you dont realize how burned you are until later that night i got about 30 seconds theres another summer bomber that does give you a grace period as i understand it if youve been exposed to poison ivy you have what about 45 minutes for soap and water and then youre out of the woods. You know its true you might have an opportunity to wash off poison ivy toxin called you or youre sure soon after exposure problem is mostly low they were exposed remember this old saying leaves of 3 let them be poison ivy as a we need grouping you should learn to recognize. Dr joe alton doman bloom dot net thanks for your time and i highly recommend your website to everybody whos watching thanks for joining us and thank you for watching the big picture if you see us somewhere else and its easier you can find us on any device at youtube dot com slash r t America Directv were channel 321 pluto t. V. 279 on the dish dish 280 and all of our shows are available on demand the whole archives at youtube dot com slash the big picture r. T. And if you havent yet got to check out our pluto t. V. App free in the app store holland cook at home in rhode island but back here with you next week meantime wash your hands and question more. As the culture war d rages on and they did the billionaire class is only getting wealthier their wealth is 20 percent or 584000000000. 00 since the start of the and demick slash law how will this shape to compete coverage and is a term that under the new york. He said he had to quit but he said. For good can each of you other than the human body. But on the better side going to the book are useless all that business and just. Consider. Me Emotional Learning t. M. Must go if you will still be stuck or your muscles from the course of your knee misses jim but of option is just woken. Up to go chill the church. Will settle into business compassion that. 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