{"id":24351,"date":"2020-11-20T17:55:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T23:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=24351"},"modified":"2020-11-20T17:55:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T23:55:29","slug":"health-directive-no-15-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/health-directive-no-15-has-been-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Directive No. 15 has been released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insight.livestories.com\/s\/v2\/covid-19-frequently-asked-questions-directives-%7C-shelby-county-tn\/a44aaf6f-f91d-4541-8ad9-0f99a7c60d7f\">Health Directive No. 15<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Effective Monday at 12:01 AM. THANK YOU to the Shelby County Health Department for no longer using midnight as the effective minute, making it unclear which day was meant. I have the sneaking suspicion someone on the task force reads this blog.<\/p>\n<p>For restaurants, this is not nearly as bad as it could have been. Changes from Health Directive No. 14:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Closing time is moved back to 10 PM<\/li>\n<li>Capacity is reduced to 50%; of course, with social distancing, most restaurants were near 50% already<\/li>\n<li>Groups at the same table are limited to a maximum of 6 (4 adults) who must all be from the same household<\/li>\n<li>Smoking indoors at any establishment is prohibited<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No distinction is made between full-service and limited-service restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like my friends in the industry have largely dodged a bullet. This is nowhere as bad as it could have been. The bureaucrats found a way to say they did something (which is the reason their jobs exist) without inflicting severe economic harm to an entire industry.<\/p>\n<p>The gyms dodged a bullet too. I thought they were looking at certain closure.<\/p>\n<p>I made one additional comment above but then deleted it because I think someone on the task force reads my blog. Ask me in person about it if you see me.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the morning with more news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Directive No. 15 Effective Monday at 12:01 AM. THANK YOU to the Shelby County Health Department for no longer using midnight as the effective minute, making it unclear which day was meant. I have the sneaking suspicion someone on the task force reads this blog. For restaurants, this is not nearly as bad as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/20\/health-directive-no-15-has-been-released\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Health Directive No. 15 has been released&#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\/24351"}],"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=24351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24352,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24351\/revisions\/24352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->