In a wild, free-wheeling interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that prompted the host to call his guest’s comments “ignorant,” Goodman said she wanted to see Las Vegas open for business, but seemingly had no plan to stop the pandemic from killing her own citizens and infecting international business travelers. She also failed to see a connection between the way germs could spread in a restaurant in Las Vegas the same way they spread in a Chinese eatery where several people were infected.