{"id":25420,"date":"2021-12-25T09:21:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T15:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=25420"},"modified":"2021-12-25T09:21:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T15:21:51","slug":"christmas-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/25\/christmas-update-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent data analyst James Aycock posted his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/firstresponses\/status\/1474433926403956737\">COVID Week-in-Review<\/a> a day early, and the outlook for Shelby County is very, very bad. The 7-day rolling average of the number of new cases per day is skyrocketing, now at 559 cases per day. That works out to 60 cases\/day\/100K, once again above the threshold of 50 at which the CDC recommends even fully vaccinated people mask in public indoor spaces.<\/p>\n<p>If it makes you feel any better, New York County, New York (Manhattan) is at an astronomical <a href=\"https:\/\/covidactnow.org\/us\/new_york-ny\/county\/new_york_county\/?s=27311618\">247 cases\/day\/100K<\/a>. So it could be worse here. Unfortunately, I&#8217;m afraid it soon will be.<\/p>\n<p>Shelby County&#8217;s mass COVID testing sites will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.localmemphis.com\/article\/news\/health\/coronavirus\/shelby-county-tennessee-covid-mass-testing-closed-holiday-weekend\/522-353da290-baef-4a27-b62c-bddd8eb1d318\">closed<\/a> today and Sunday. I mean, I get it, it&#8217;s Christmas, but wow that timing is terrible.<\/p>\n<p>The Little Rock Central High basketball team got <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-grizzlies\/article\/26124\/grizzlies-tickets-holiday-present-little-rock-players\">a nice surprise<\/a> in their Christmas gift bags this week: tickets to the Memphis Grizzlies vs. the Chicago Bulls in the annual MLK Day game. Central High drew national attention in 1957 when it desegregated.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Tigers have been declared 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/sportsmemphis-tigers-football\/article\/26126\/tigers-football-season-bowl-ends-disappointing\">Hawai&#8217;i Bowl champions<\/a> by forfeit. It apparently doesn&#8217;t count as a 7th victory for the season, though.<\/p>\n<p>The Brass Door is closed until 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Not only is it Christmas Day, but it&#8217;s also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/b67e82ea291a61ae48b1cdc3fce23c46\/national-pumpkin-pie-day\">National Pumpkin Pie Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bardog will open at 5 today. Over on Beale Street, Alfred&#8217;s and B.B. King&#8217;s will also open at 5.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m joining friends for Christmas dinner, then I will be out this evening. I thought about not posting today but decided the link to James&#8217; summary was important enough that it couldn&#8217;t wait a day. Y&#8217;all be careful out there, especially those of you who are not vaccinated. Merry Christmas and I&#8217;ll be back tomorrow with more news.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='https:\/\/storage.ko-fi.com\/cdn\/widget\/Widget_2.js'><\/script><script type='text\/javascript'>kofiwidget2.init('Tip Jar', '#29abe0', 'B0B57GDFG');kofiwidget2.draw();<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent data analyst James Aycock posted his COVID Week-in-Review a day early, and the outlook for Shelby County is very, very bad. The 7-day rolling average of the number of new cases per day is skyrocketing, now at 559 cases per day. That works out to 60 cases\/day\/100K, once again above the threshold of 50 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/25\/christmas-update-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Christmas update&#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\/25420"}],"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=25420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25421,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25420\/revisions\/25421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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