Posted on 04/20/2020 1:54:43 PM PDT by SoCalCynic
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Monday, Governor Bill Lee announced the order for Tennesseans to remain at home will expire April 30, with the majority of businesses in 89 counties allowed to re-open May 1.
The commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Health says there are now more recovered COVID-19 cases than active cases, plus additional (new) testing sites are coming soon.
“Our Economic Recovery Group is working with industry leaders around the clock so that some businesses can open as soon as Monday, April 27. These businesses will open according to specific guidance that we will provide in accordance with state and national experts in both medicine and business.”
Gov. Lee’s administration will be working with Shelby, Madison, Hamilton, Knox and Sullivan counties and their health departments as they plan their own re-open strategies.
“While I am not extending the safer at home order past the end of April, we are working directly with our major metropolitan areas to ensure they are in a position to reopen as soon and safely as possible,” said Lee. “Social distancing works, and as we open up our economy it will be more important than ever that we keep social distancing as lives and livelihoods depend on it.”
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Which is way more sensible than what most governors are doing.
YAY !!!
The Pressures on ! people are sick and tired of this shiite !
I’ll be at this is sort of a gnarly virus this thing is been way overblown and this shut down is gone on far too long already
Good news!
Awesome.
Nice!!
Excellent news - now if Tennessee good sense could possibly drift over our Western Border into North Carolina......but our Demonrat Governor Cooper - fraudulently elected Governor Cooper - will likely keep NC closed til August...
Georgia just announced that gyms and restaurants can start reopening on Friday.
Wonderful! If the NE states formed an unconstitutional compact to shut down their states and keep them shut down until Cuomo gives the go-ahead, the Southern states should form a compact to open up now.
My Florida governor, De Santis, wasn’t going to shut everything down but he got so attacked by the press that local mayors (especially in Dem areas) went berserk and closed everything, including outdoor spaces where you couldn’t possibly catch anything. They reopened the outdoor spaces, at least on a limited basis, on Friday after a conference call with Gov. DeSantis.
And they were immediately attacked in the NE press, with titles such as “Floridiots,” showing a crowd trekking along the beach in Jax. It actually turned out that the photo was file footage from earlier, and when you saw the actual day’s photo, it was individuals, couples and small family groups trotting or even jogging along at the “mandated” social distance.
What I don’t understand is why the other states hate so much to see sensible states open up again.
Also, I really do think we need a Southern states group, because our conditions are entirely different even in states with big cities, such as Georgia and Florida.
Actually TN gets to be the canary in the coal mine. Governors will be watching their count closely.
What I don’t understand is why the other states hate so much to see sensible states open up again.
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It makes it harder to continue with the stupid stuff when the alternative is seen as contrast
Actually TN gets to be the canary in the coal mine. Governors will be watching their count closely.
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And every new case will lead both local and national newscasts.
Easy.
They don't want to economies of the red states to start booming again, even as the deep blue state governors like Cuomo keep their own economies down with stifling lockdowns. The people in those still in lockdown states are going to rise up in anger and demand that their own governors start opening up too. The media don't want that.
We shut down businesses and gatherings during the Spanish Flu too.
“Philadelphia’s response was too little, too late. Dr. Wilmer Krusen, director of Public Health and Charities for the city, insisted mounting fatalities were not the “Spanish flu,” but rather just the normal flu. So on September 18, the city went forward with a Liberty Loan parade attended by tens of thousands of Philadelphians, spreading the disease like wildfire. In just 10 days, over 1,000 Philadelphians were dead, with another 200,000 sick. Only then did the city close saloons and theaters. By March 1919, over 15,000 citizens of Philadelphia had lost their lives.
St. Louis, Missouri, was different: Schools and movie theaters closed and public gatherings were banned. Consequently, the peak mortality rate in St. Louis was just one-eighth of Philadelphia’s death rate during the peak of the pandemic.
Citizens in San Francisco were fined $5—a significant sum at the time—if they were caught in public without masks and charged with disturbing the peace.”
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic
Sound familiar?
I might add that just a few years after the Spanish Flu epidemic we had the Roaring Twenties. The American economy has survived worse than this and will do so again.
LOL!
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