LETTER: NFR is indeed a benefit to Las Vegas

It appears based connected your Saturday editorial that we each should beryllium jumping up and down that the National Finals Rodeo has returned to our municipality — and I would hold erstwhile you look astatine the immense fiscal interaction it volition person connected our city. Hotels packed, restaurants packed, casinos packed and, of course, the traffic. Yes, we locals volition payment from each of this … maybe.

But arsenic you tin spot from Saturday’s beforehand leafage (“Smiling faces precise visible”), a representation shows hundreds and hundreds of rodeo fans unmasked. Do they not person to adhere to the indoor disguise mandate? Have they brought the COVID microorganism with them, and volition they dispersed it to the locals that they travel successful interaction with? Will they beryllium exposed to an infected idiosyncratic successful the stands and bring the microorganism backmost to their hometown and stock it with their families and friends?

Is the NFR and authorities officials making them bash what the Raiders did to not lone support the fans but to support the locals who enactment to guarantee that these fans person a large clip here? Are our section COVID cases going to surge during and aft their visit? I conjecture we volition person to hold and see. This is scary.