Health Directive 17, which will loosen restrictions a little for Shelby County, will be released today and will go into effect Saturday at midnight. Key points county health officer Dr. Bruce Randolph made yesterday concerning restaurants:<\/p>\n
Health Department director Dr. Haushalter said the reproduction rate of the virus has dropped to 0.89, so COVID’s spread is no longer exponential. (Should we call a number below 1 logarithmic spread?) New case numbers are down. The positivity rate, although still too high at 14%, is substantially down from previous weeks.<\/p>\n
The Health Department folks say a list of businesses closed due to violating health directives is on the shelby.community<\/a> website. WHERE?????<\/p>\n The CA’s Jennifer Chandler has a look at new Downtown breakfast restaurant Sugar Grits<\/a>. It’s run by the same folks as Zinnie’s and Ben-Yay’s is located in the ServiceMaster building on Second Street. For those who work nearby, note that they’ll have a grab & go. In my entire life, all but 6 months of which was lived in the South, I have never had grits and red-eye gravy. I’ll have to do something about that soon.<\/p>\n I want to take a minute to note the passing of Krazi Beckii, my neighbor, friend, and hairstylist, and an icon of the late 1980s Memphis scene. She was one of a kind and lit up every room she was in. My thoughts go out to all who loved her.<\/p>\n The Memphis Flyer reports that Sushi Jimmi is starting his own cooking channel<\/a> on YouTube.<\/p>\n It’s always a pleasure to discover new writers on Medium, the platform where I write professionally. I discovered a new writer yesterday: Kamala Harris.<\/a> (That article is not marked as behind the paywall, so you should be able to click through and read)<\/p>\n If you eat pepperoni Hot Pockets, might want to lay off them for a while<\/a>. (hat tip to Morning Brew<\/a> for the info)<\/p>\n