I hate this (kind) kind of thread, and not because it mentions Rob, just because it is dumb.

But I don't remember Rob sound the alarm about Covid. Not saying he didn't, but I don't remember it. Covid was actually being talked about in the news for months before it got to the U.S. and exploded. Most national news stations were reporting a virus outbreak in China as early as late 2019.

I do have something I remember about covid outbreak and shutdown that still pisses me off though.

My partner passed away in 2018. I tried to pick up some of the machine play VP mailer stuff he was doing. So in 2019, even though I was only playing part of what he did, it was all on my card, rather than spread out among several.

So Stations was big for us, and one of the ones I continued. Stations at that time had different mailers for different groups of casinos, like the basic station casinos, a separate mailer for their higher 2 casinos Red Rock and GVR, sperate mailer for the 2 Fiesta properties and sperate mailer for smaller Barleys, Wild west, Wildfire properties. Separate mailers but all the same account and players card.

So when my Partner was alive, he spread out play among a number of accounts. And my account only got up to President level (as did his). One of the perks of president were half price buffets and any of the dozen properties. So in 2019, the year after my partner passed, playing all play on one account, by years end I was at higher than usual. pretty close to top tier of Chairman. You had until Jan 31 to hit the tier that you would have for the next 12 months. i was close enough that I went for it in January 2020.

The benefit I was after was free buffets at any buffet, plus free for a guest. You could eat every day if you wanted or twice a day I guess. I figured I would at 3-4 times a week and at times take my brother or mother. It would be worth $5000 to me, especially with the more expensive Sunday and weekend night buffets.

So I got to use that perk for about 5 weeks. Then Casinos shut down and when they reopned....NO BUFFETS!! Got screwed royally.