It’s strange how getting a haircut, grabbing a bite to eat and planning a vacation have become so fraught with a sense of anxiety verging on impending doom over the past few months.

Alexander Pope’s expression ‘hope springs eternal’ has been used by long-suffering baseball fans at the start of a new season on how this will finally be the year.

As the debate intensifies over reopening classrooms in the fall, an infectious disease expert at UNLV said he believes data supports in-person learning for some age groups.

This year has surely been a tough time for the sports industry and there are many things that happened for the first time in its history. In March of this year, many major sports events worldwide were either canceled and postponed. One of these sports events is the NBA which was abruptly suspended when Utah Jazz player Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID 19.

The reopening of casinos in Las Vegas contributed to an exponential increase in new daily cases of Covid-19 infection and the overcrowding of local hospitals. Casino workers now live in a constant climate of fear as doctors and nurses try to secure services in overcrowded hospitals. With more than 30,000 infected in the region, Nevada is facing an unprecedented public health crisis with Las Vegas at its epicenter.

It happens seemingly every school year.

How do you manage a raging pandemic?

“There’s no law,” Las Vegas visitor Genevieve Peters proclaims in the middle of the Wynn Las Vegas casino as she records video of security guards attempting to usher the woman and her friends out of the property for not wearing masks. “It’s illegal and it’s unconstitutional. But yet we are getting walked out by staff.”