We were getting tired of sitting around.” “Everything is getting ready to open,” she said. Lucy Gavin, who works with the developmentally disabled and is collecting unemployment benefits because her client doesn't want her too close, came to play slots. “I’m not going to be a part of continuing that into the future. “This is a decision that is for them to make, and there is a very long and very dark history of the country of white people, in particular, telling our Native Americans what they should and shouldn’t do,” he said. San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher refused to question the tribes last week. The San Diego Union-Tribune - in an editorial titled, “San Diego casinos are about to gamble with patrons’ lives” - said opening is a “high-risk public health experiment' “Tribal nations are sovereign entities,” she told reporters. Wooten, who met with tribal leaders to discuss their plans, noted that casinos were in the third stage of California’s reopening plans and the state is only in the second stage, but she refused to say if the casinos were making a mistake. Wilma Wooten, San Diego County’s top public health officer, last week backed off from her earlier criticism of reopening plans. “There's nothing to do at home,” she said. “They're opening up because they don't have to listen to him,” she said.ĭedra Bloxton, 51, took the day off from working at a port in Long Beach to drive two hours from Los Angeles with a friend and play the slot machines. Gavin Newsom's orders to keep businesses closed. before going to work as a painting contractor because “it's all about freedom.” She is highly critical of Gov. Ronda McLauchlan, 49, of Alpine lined up at 7:30 a.m.

RELATED: Viejas Worker Quits Over Casino's Plans To Reopen Next Week Within an hour of opening at 8 a.m., the first three floors of four-story parking garage were full at the casino, which has 2,500 slot machines in Alpine, east of San Diego. But for some - especially older adults and people with existing health problems - it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia, and death. Electronic signs across the casino floor told them - “Let's Play Again!” - while also instructing them to stay six feet apart, wash hands for 20 seconds, avoid touching eyes, noses and mouths and come back another day if they were feeling sick.įor most people, the new coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough that clear up in two to three weeks. Customers were required to have their foreheads scanned for temperatures.

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