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Health Directive No. 16 for Shelby County dropped at about 4 PM yesterday. Here are the main points.<\/p>\n

Effective dates are Saturday, December 26-Friday, January 22 (so 4 weeks, or 2 COVID incubation periods)<\/li>\n
Residents are encouraged to shelter at home as much as possible during this period<\/li>\n
Only essential businesses are allowed to stay open – but the list of essential businesses is so long that it’s hard to think of what would qualify as a nonessential business<\/li>\n
Employers are asked to keep non-essential employees home and implement telecommuting where possible<\/li>\n
Restaurants can keep indoor dining at 25% capacity. Foodservice is limited to 90 minutes (down from 2 hours) and no more than 6 people from the same household at a table (they got rid of the stupid 4 adults, 2 kids thing)<\/li>\n
Retail at 50% capacity<\/li>\n
Gyms at 50% capacity (including staff) and masks must be worn at all times<\/li>\n
Personal care businesses (barbershops, nail salons, etc.) may operate by appointment only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Meh. I guess it was the least bad option on a buffet of bad options.<\/p>\n
Suburban mayors were caught off guard<\/a> by the new health directive. Discussions within the COVID task force were for restrictions lasting two weeks, and Arlington mayor Mike Wissman said the additional two weeks were never discussed.<\/p>\n
The Shelby County Commission gave inspectors a new tool in enforcing COVID rules yesterday: By a 9-4 vote, they can now fine businesses $50 per violation<\/a>. So, let’s say inspectors walk into a restaurant and find 6\u00a0 customers standing at the bar, unmasked. The individuals would not face a fine, but the restaurant could be fined $300. It gives the health department an intermediate option between giving a business a warning and shutting it completely down when violations are found.<\/p>\n
In typical Vols fashion, the University of Tennessee had to pull out of the Liberty Bowl<\/a> because too many players and staff have COVID. Army will be UT’s replacement, and that is a serious upgrade. The Black Knights will take on the Mountaineers of good ole West Virginny the afternoon of the 31st.<\/p>\n
The Memphis Air Traffic Control Center has reopened<\/a> after a COVID-related cleaning. Surrounding facilities provided support during the time the center was cleaned.<\/p>\n
Penny Hardaway scored a 5-year, $12.25 million contract extension<\/a> yesterday. His team lost to Tulsa last night though.<\/p>\n
That’s the news for this morning. I’m not sure I will get a chance to listen to the noon COVID task force press conference, but if I do and anything important comes up, I’ll be back with a recap this afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Health Directive No. 16 for Shelby County dropped at about 4 PM yesterday. Here are the main points. Effective dates are Saturday, December 26-Friday, January 22 (so 4 weeks, or 2 COVID incubation periods) Residents are encouraged to shelter at home as much as possible during this period Only essential businesses are allowed to stay … 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\/24445"}],"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=24445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24446,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24445\/revisions\/24446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}