goldfly
<B>if my thought dreams could be seen</B>
You know why
Cause we know how bad republicans are at being in charge
Am I right?
You know why
I dont get how people arent pissed about this ****
Cause we know how bad republicans are at being in charge
Am I right?
The first email thread from June 19 showed Mayor Cooper's senior adviser Benjamin Eagles and MNHD epidemiologist Leslie Waller discussing a small contract tracing study of known coronavirus clusters.
The results showed that more than a thousand COVID-19 cases had been linked to construction and nursing homes - while bars and restaurants had just 22 cases.
'This isn't going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor's Office?' Waller wrote.
'Correct, not for public consumption,' Eagles replied.
The reporter, Nate Rau, posed a simple question: 'If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson [County] and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn't that mean restaurants and bars aren't a very big problem?'
Todd forwarded Rau's email to five colleagues and asked: 'Please advise how you recommend I respond.'
One of the officials replied instructing Todd to remain vague on the issue.
'My two cents,' the sender, whose name was cut off, wrote to all six people on the thread.
'We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site and there are other data release standards prohibiting the release of a total count that is less than 10 per small geographic area.
'We do have 2 bars now where the counts are over 10 but then that would single out those two and not the others.
'We could still release the total though, and then a response to the over 80 could be "because that number is increasing all the time and we don’t want to say a specific number."'
After the mayor's office and MNHD declined to verify the emails to WZTV without an official Freedom of Information Act request, Councilmember Glover had a metro staff attorney look into it.
'I was able to get verification from the Mayor's Office and the Department of Health that these emails are real,' the staff attorney said.
Glover charged that the emails proved city officials have been 'fabricating information' about Nashville's coronavirus crisis.
'They've blown their entire credibility,' he told WZTV. 'It's gone. I don't trust a thing they say going forward. Nothing.'
The councilman said he's been contacted by an 'endless stream' of bartenders, waitresses and restaurant owners in downtown who are demanding to know why the city didn't release the low numbers of COVID-19 cases linked to their establishments.
'We raised taxes 34 percent and put hundreds literally thousands of people out of work that are now worried about losing their homes, their apartments, et cetera, and we did it on bogus data,' Glover said.
'That should be illegal.'
OK good. Glad to see there may not have been intentional lying.
I'm also hopeful that you would agree that lying about info like this would be infuriating
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It would be interesting to see what US unemployment would be in you took out NYC and LA.
Following the science.
**** your liberty
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