Jarno

I actually miss taking lunch break at the Snodgras Tower. I'm sure most of you know, but there is a public accessable walking track on the 28th floor (I think) with great views. You do have to show a valid ID to enter.

I'm not sure the main objective of government should be getting low affordable pricing on housing. I'm old fashion, but I still believe if all the houses are being bought they are affordable. If they are not being bought the price will come down and become more affordable for more people. The main objective of the government should be providing police, firemen, schools and so on for the citizens which they are failing at pretty badly from most of what I see.

Hate to lose those projects (Buckingham dead for years though), but if you look at how Nasville built right through Covid while announcing new projects along the way, I would say the future is bright. When compared to Atlanta, Seattle and others, you can see how we are just now getting ready to start the boom.

Knowing so many people in he Podunk counties and many of their reasons for living there I have elected to delete my comment 3 times before leaving this one.

I think they are ahead of the curve. Great time in my opinion as there is a ton of people waiting to get back out.

The last time I went downtown during the week a month or so ago there were not enough people to make a determination.

I think the one thing we learned from this Covid pandemic period is that we don't want the government calling the shots when it coming to how we live our lives. They started saying their executive actions were the laws spending money at an unprecedented rate, sneaking in unrelated agendas. And my favorite, Cooper says he will allow fans at the Titans games and practically takes a bow, while screwing 90% of the tickets holders out of going.

Great picture completely full of towers and still can't fit most of SoBro in the photo. . Who would have thought that just a few years ago?

I work (worked) downtown too and we are all working from home till at least next year. Productivity is also way up. Nice not have 1.5 to 2 hours of commute a day erased.

I love your first line - "I think its different stroke for different folks! " However, I'll never understand this new trend for what appears to be a lot of people: I don't like it, so burn it down....

So true, I actually drove Uber part time on the weekends for a year. It is amazing the pull Broadway has with these people. It was nothing to do 20 rides on a Saturday and come across maybe two people from Nashville and the rest out of state. Usually NY/NJ area or Boston and then a few from the mid-west. Also get a ton from Australia, England and other parts of Europe. Can't recall a night I didn't have at least a couple from out of the country. One night I had rides from Australia, another Australia and Scotland all in a row.

If we are going to use the standard of which one feels more right, who feelings will be used to determine which protests, rallies or business's are considered essential?

When you look at these numbers compared to the state population there is really not any significant difference in any of the weeks. First of all, I don't consider cases to be relevant because more people are tested each week. Also, so many new case are asymptomatic and new evidence is starting to say they may not even be able to spread the virus. I also don't put much faith in death totals either, because that is a doctors opinion. Did they die of kidney failure they have had for years or covid for example? Plus, remember, the average covid death age is still north of 70 last I saw or basically at life expectancy. (Not saying I can determine it either, but that number fluctuates a lot). So I say that to say this. The difference in hospitalizations between the best and worst week on the graph would be .0000126% of the population. I'm not sure any type of lock down or preventing people from going out in the sunshine could possible affect a number that small. I mean 183 hospitalizations vs 97 in the best week spread over 95 counties and 6,829,000 people in the state is less than a rounding error. I just hate to see us get caught fearing micro fractions when other states are back in business and booming. Just rented our condo in Florida for next month since they were going fast and all my friends have said it is wide open and the same as always down there. I also came downtown on Monday afternoon and Nashville looked like a ghost town. 1 for 1 ratio of homeless and tourist. Plus we extended the level two phase long enough that people have made their summer plans. Nashville is toast for this summer and we will be for the fall as well if we can't reassure the people spending their money we are open.

Nobody is planting anything in my brain. I can clearly see this is a virus and it will not just go away. It will always be around. Clearly this effects the elderly and those with underlying conditions the worst. Around 12,000 people die falling down stairs each year. That number is similar to those who have died from the virus that were not elderly or with underlying conditions. Some people will choose to focus on the 195 fatalities who had Coved listed as possible contributing condition here in Tennessee. I morn them too. But I'll continue to focus on the 6,829,000 survivors here in Tennessee who are being decimated by the lock downs.

Flattening the curve is how it was sold to the American people. If you had said, oh, we are closing your lively hood and it may be months or years before you can work and you will likely lose everything I think the acceptance would have been a lot different.