Biloxi, Mississippi wrote the playbook 15 years ago on how a casino community recovers from a cataclysmic event after Hurricane Katrina nearly wiped out the Gulf Coast gaming market.

Granted, there isn’t a script for dealing with the economic and emotional damage the coronavirus pandemic has inflicted on the nation’s entire gaming business over the past two months. No one plans for an entire industry – nearly 1,000 properties in 43 states – to close in a span of two weeks