The spike in cases, the spike in hospitalization, and articles in the Daily Memphian about restaurants and grocery stores’ lax following of Phase 2 re-opening requirements prompted Commissioner Tami Sawyer to write a letter requesting a roll back to Phase 1, or a modification to Phase 2. (View the phases<\/a> – some sources are claiming that a roll back to Phase 1 would reduce restaurants and retail to 25%, but that’s not what the city website indicates.)<\/p>\n County mayor Lee Harris said later in the day yesterday that we don’t have to move back to Phase 1<\/a> if we do better about wearing our masks and social distancing. Harris and city mayor Strickland unveiled a new Mask Up Memphis and LIVE campaign<\/a> yesterday\u00a0 This campaign will distribute masks and preventative literature to “underprivileged” areas of Memphis. The website has a list of locations<\/a> where you can get masks. The Downtown location is the North Main bus terminal at Main and A.W. Willis.<\/p>\n I hope we stay in Phase 2, but that’s a preference, not an opinion – I don’t have the qualifications to state an opinion on what we “should” do. I would agree that people have tended to put social distancing and masking on the back burner a bit since around Memorial Day, around the time the protests displaced COVID-19 as the top news item.<\/p>\n I’m doing my part to prevent the spread of COVID-19, thanks to Paula Raiford. I saw her yesterday, and she said, “Hang on… let me run out to my car.” She came back with a gift for me:<\/p>\n A pocket-sized Paula & Raiford’s-branded bottle of hand sanitizer! Stay safe and sexy! I put it on my keychain. Thanks Paula! Hand sanitizer is a good backup to have for times when you don’t have access to soap and water to wash your hands for 20 seconds.<\/p>\n Follow the City of Memphis<\/a> on Facebook to receive a notification when the COVID-19 task force’s press conference starts today around noon. I have a feeling today’s conference will be interesting.<\/p>\n Catherine & Mary’s re-opens for business today and will be open for dinner Tuesday-Saturday for dinner 5 to 10 PM. Visit their website<\/a> for a list of precautions they are taking to keep diners safe.<\/p>\n The Downtown Memphis Commission is looking to hire a captain<\/a> for its Blue Suede Brigade team, the folks in the blue polos who provide safety and hospitality Downtown.<\/p>\n Chinese Connection Dub Embassy performs outside City Hall<\/a> at 7:30 tonight. Attendees are asked to wear masks and social distance.<\/p>\n The King Beez play B.B King’s<\/a> tonight at 8:30. So good to have live music back on Beale!<\/p>\n Primas Bakery + Boutique will have Churros to Go<\/a> Friday from 12:30 to 2:30 PM.<\/p>\n That’s the news for today. I have an early-morning meeting so I have to be at work an hour earlier than usual. Back tomorrow with more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good morning Memphis! I really didn’t think I was going to do a blog post today, because I had not had a decent Internet connection in six days. Today, however, it seems much better. I am not sure if that is because Xfinity found the problem and fixed it, or because it’s 6:19 AM and … Continue reading “Tuesday update”<\/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\/23803"}],"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=23803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23805,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23803\/revisions\/23805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_5581.jpg?resize=375%2C500\")
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