{"id":23682,"date":"2020-05-18T12:09:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=23682"},"modified":"2020-05-18T12:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T17:09:19","slug":"monday-update-2-phase-2-re-opening-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/monday-update-2-phase-2-re-opening-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday update #2: Phase 2 re-opening begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayors and health department have announced <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/coronavirus\/article\/14103\/jim-strickland-lee-harris-covid-19-phase-2-reopening\">the beginning of Phase 2<\/a> of the Back-to-Business Framework for Memphis and Shelby County. The roll into Phase 2 follows 14 days of flat or declining numbers of new coronavirus cases.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spas and tattoo parlors can open at 50% capacity<\/li>\n<li>Non-contact sports facilities that have dining rooms can open them at 50% capacity<\/li>\n<li>Gyms and libraries can expand from 25% to 50% capacity<\/li>\n<li>Purposeful gatherings of less than 50 people now allowed (previous limit 10)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else that was open under Phase 1, stays open under the same guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>A small business owner Downtown posted this and it&#8217;s worth a repost:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid-smallbz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23683\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid-smallbz.jpg?resize=429%2C500\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid-smallbz.jpg?resize=429%2C500 429w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid-smallbz.jpg?resize=258%2C300 258w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/covid-smallbz.jpg?w=824 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 429px) 85vw, 429px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>River City Pedalers, one of the party pedal bike companies, posted that the city won&#8217;t allow them to open until Phase 3. The city really needs to be careful with those. Riders could sit every other bike seat to maintain 6 feet of distance, but the trouble is, the bikes make stops at bars so riders can buy shots. That produces scenarios where the bike riders crowd 16 people into a 3- to 4-foot space to order; there is no way the captains of the pedal bikes nor the people who work at the bars could get the riders to maintain space.<\/p>\n<p>The New Wing Order food truck&#8217;s schedule for the week includes a stop Downtown, at Cordelia&#8217;s Market 5-8 Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Here&#8217;s where to get your award-winning food to-go this week!<\/p>\n<p>&#x1f336;&#xfe0f; TU, 11-1: TAG Truck Center (4450 American Way)<br \/>\n&#x1f336;&#xfe0f; W, 5-8: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cordeliasmarket?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@cordeliasmarket<\/a> (737 Harbor Bend Rd)<br \/>\n&#x1f336;&#xfe0f; TH, 4-7: Yorkshire Liquors (5669 Quince Rd)<br \/>\n&#x1f336;&#xfe0f; F Lunch, 11-1: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/west_cancer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@west_cancer<\/a> (7945 Wolf River Blvd)<\/p>\n<p>(1\/2) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TxGshUGxyW\">pic.twitter.com\/TxGshUGxyW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 New Wing Order (@newwingorder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newwingorder\/status\/1262368707050983426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Video tour of the new overflow facility at 495 Union, the former CA building converted into a COVID-19 hospital:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On tour of former CA building <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NnRAGkDSrQ\">pic.twitter.com\/NnRAGkDSrQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daniel Connolly &#x303d;&#xfe0f; (@DanielConnolly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanielConnolly\/status\/1262400552325046275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>College football news: COVID-19 athletic department budget cutbacks at Power 5 schools could spell the end of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/43f2e537f0bc6c7678ca32498bafc97d\">buy games<\/a>, where a big-name university pays a lesser-known institution to play a game at the big-name team&#8217;s stadium, with the smaller school getting an appearance fee well into six figures and in some cases seven. These games make up a huge chunk of smaller schools&#8217; athletic revenue. The most well-known buy game in recent times happened in August 2019, when the Tennessee Vols paid Georgia State almost a million dollars to come to Neyland Stadium and beat them.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OSwuWNJJYB4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee&#8217;s free cloth masks were tested for effectiveness and were found to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knoxnews.com\/story\/news\/2020\/05\/18\/we-had-questions-tennessees-cloth-masks-so-knox-news-had-them-tested\/5200678002\/?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot\">nearly as effective as surgical masks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>FiveThirtyEight looks at a real-life situation that illustrates the challenges of the 2020 pandemic: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/this-first-time-homebuyer-needs-rent-to-keep-his-house-but-his-tenants-are-broke\/\">What do you do when you&#8217;re a first-time landlord who needs rent money to pay the mortgage, but your tenants are broke?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow with more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayors and health department have announced the beginning of Phase 2 of the Back-to-Business Framework for Memphis and Shelby County. The roll into Phase 2 follows 14 days of flat or declining numbers of new coronavirus cases. Spas and tattoo parlors can open at 50% capacity Non-contact sports facilities that have dining rooms can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/18\/monday-update-2-phase-2-re-opening-begins\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Monday update #2: Phase 2 re-opening begins&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23684,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23682\/revisions\/23684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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