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18 hours ago, nashvylle said:
The main objective from the city's standpoint should be increasing supply of affordable housing units. We could have 100 meetings/studies and people will still complain. But if we still have zero supply after all these studies, the complaining will be quite louder.
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.
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6 hours ago, nashville born said:
While I don't doubt that both you and Tony are two who would know, I can't help but be a little confused by this enthusiastic comment when I see 2nd & Peabody catching flack and projects like Fairmont and Buckingham sitting idle. I hope to high heaven Tony's prediction comes through.
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.
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On 4/16/2021 at 3:56 PM, smeagolsfree said:
The politicians in this state do not have the willpower to fix Nashville traffic woes because all of the Podunk counties will be jealous that Nashville is getting all of the gas tax money. They want the money for roads to their trailer parks fixed first.
They also passed the law to allow for toll roads, but none have done one. No political will power there either.
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.
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21 hours ago, satalac said:
I'm surprised people are still wanting to build entertainment venues right now. Looks nice regardless.
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.
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4 hours ago, TheRaglander said:
For those that have been downtown taking pictures or working: Is everyone wearing a mask outside? It has been over 8 months since I have been downtown and thought about finding a parking spot and walking around, taking pics and having lunch somewhere. I know people are being asked to wear masks around Broadway but was curious about how it is on KVB and the business core. Thanks!
The last time I went downtown during the week a month or so ago there were not enough people to make a determination.
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1 hour ago, DDIG said:
My thought is why not be transparent? Don't use the words "record number of clusters from bars" when in reality you are talking about 19 cases. Say openly what you believe, "While we aren't able to contact trace many cases to bar at this time, we believe that bars remain a significant threat for transmission and that we will never be able to capture true numbers due to people who go to bars from outside the county lines."
It undermines public trust to do otherwise.
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.
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1 hour ago, chris holman said:
This would be a great view of the skyline
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?
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On 8/15/2020 at 12:46 AM, titanhog said:
I work from home and get distracted a lot...but then again...I may end up working more hours because I can work anytime I want. Like right now...it's almost 1am and I'm in the middle of working on a project and will probably work until 5am on it. So I do love the flexibility.
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.
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On 7/21/2020 at 8:43 AM, smeagolsfree said:
I think its different stroke for different folks!
For me, I don't like visiting Broadway as a local. When I vacation for instance in NoLa, I only visit Bourbon St. maybe once and and then I am done. I have no desire to go back to the strip in Las Vegas and have seen enough of Times Square in NYC to know I don't want to go. Too many people, too many drunks, too much touristy cheese in all of these places. I get the same vibe when I go to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. I went to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg for the first time in my life a couple of years ago and never again. Maybe its a sign I am getting older, but I never did Gatlinburg when I was younger. I never did the Beaches that much either for the same reason. Too many people. Besides hanging around a beach for me, is a colossal waste of time. I never had a beach body anyway. I went with friends but was usually bored.
Maybe it's just me, I just dont like the crowds anywhere I go. But if it is your cup of tea then go for it. No amusement parks for me either. They are good for the economy, but I hate the lines and the crowds. But if you want to go, then I will never stand in your way.
Even many of the national parks are ruined by crowds. Even when I was in Yosemite I went up in elevation to get away from people. My remedy there is to charge a lot more to get into those parks to keep the riff raff out. If you live within 200 miles of a national park you should be charge triple to get in, but parks like the Smokey's cant charge entrance fees because of the way they were chartered.
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....
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14 hours ago, subkyle said:
And it’s not like the tourists are just people from the mid south. The hometowns of MANY of our tourists would shock some people. Especially people that don’t go down there much.
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.
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16 hours ago, satalac said:
You have to look at the context of if though. One large gathering is protesting the injustice of an entire race. The other large gathering is people....drinking. One seems to have a bit more weight. Sure, one could make the argument that it's not fair across the board, but one feels a lot more important than the other. It's like letting some businesses remain open because they were deemed essential. The protests in this same vein are more essential.
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?
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On 4/30/2020 at 10:03 AM, ruraljuror said:I probably should have been more clear in my last post: To flatten the curve essentially 'means' to buy time. Flattening the curve is just a statistical concept that makes no claims about virus eradication, for example. In fact, if the x-axis plots time, then a flatter curve by implication is probably going to have wider upward and downward sloping tails and will therefore take longer than a sharp rise/decent. In the context of the pandemic, it just means taking measures to make the infection/death growth rates grow more slowly, essentially turning a steep mountain peak into a wider, rolling hill (or more likely, hills).
That said, I can understand your confusion given the fair amount of conflicting information that was being passed around in February and early March (which seems like a lifetime ago). Hell, back then even the president was pushing the idea that cases 'would soon be zero' - which ultimately may not even be an incorrect statement depending on how one defines 'soon'...
All that to say, most of the credible information I was seeing in the lead up to the lock down gave no indication that the process of flattening the curve was going to be over very quickly. There was a lot of talk about how it would take 2 weeks to see if our measures to flatten the curve were even working, but there was no indication that even a successful flattening of the curve would mean that we would then get to immediately return to some semblance of our normal lives. In fact, most of what I was reading/hearing at the time led me to believe that our lockdown measures likely wouldn't be sufficient, and we could expect to see increasingly severe lockdown rules implemented about every two weeks for a while to come thereafter. Obviously that hasn't happened, of course, (thankfully, I guess) and couldn't really happen in an environment where we lack adequate testing to truly know the degree to which we've effectively flattened the curve thus far. Without those tests, we're all still just playing a guessing game, which ties one hand behind the back of those promoting quantitative assessments and solutions to the pandemic, which (not coincidentally) is an advantage to those who would like to push agendas and 'solutions' that conflict with the cold hard math. That dynamic alone probably accounts for a significant amount of the public's misunderstanding of the situation.
All that to say, who was it that 'sold' you and the American people the idea that flattening the curve would be a quick process? I'm genuinely curious. In any case, whether it was politicians, particular media outlets, or friends/family/neighbors that planted that seed in your brain, I recommend finding other supplementary sources when seeking pandemic info going forward, because it seems like you're right that you were sold a bad bill of goods.
On 6/6/2020 at 3:58 PM, titanhog said:Keeping a close eye on the Covid infections, hospitalizations and deaths in TN to see where the trend is headed.
This week: 3,435 new infected...183 new hospitalizations...48 deaths
Last week: 2,691...150...45
2 weeks ago: 2,424...106...25
3 weeks ago: 2.529...155...49
4 weeks ago: 2,550...186...37
5 weeks ago: 3,165...305...36
6 weeks ago: 2,137...97...26
7 weeks ago: 1,727...175...44
Looks like the last two weeks have seen a trend toward more infections, hospitalizations and deaths. NOT a good trend.
Last 4 weeks vs. previous 4 week:
L4: 11,079 infections...594 hospitalizations...167 deaths
P4: 9,579 infections...763 hospitalizations...143 deaths
The good number is that hospitalizations have gone down over the past 4 weeks...so we're not screwed yet...but those number the last 2 weeks need to stabilize quickly or those hospitalizations will keep going northward.
On 6/7/2020 at 12:50 PM, titanhog said:The "spike" has been the last two weeks. It's something you don't want to see going into the summer when most viruses tend to "bake" off with more people spending time outdoors, which tends to help lessen a virus' effect on a population (normally what seems to happen with a virus). Up until these last 2 weeks...everything was looking really good and trending the right way.
So...it's just something to keep an eye on. If we get even more hospitalizations and deaths next week (the 2 numbers that really matter)...then that would be 3 weeks in a row of increases. We'll see what happens. The numbers will tell the story.
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.
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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.
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17 hours ago, ruraljuror said:
Shelter at home recommendations/orders were not only about flattening the curve so that hospitals don't get overwhelmed, they were also about buying time so that doctors and scientists could work on vaccines, testing, treatment tech & best practices, and prophylactic/preventative drugs, etc. Also, we needed (need) as much time as possible to ramp up production on safety materials and equipment for currently known treatments (i.e. PPE and ventilators) while beefing up the production and supply chain capacity for when vaccines, tests, treatments, and prophylactics are ready for mass production.
Point being, it was never all about flattening the curve.
As to the political weapon, I hear what you're saying - just about everything (justly and/or unjustly) is used as a political weapon these days. That said, there were political decisions (made by politicians) that have very much defined our governmental response to this pandemic, starting on the federal side with cutting CDC budgets and eliminating infectious disease experts from prominent positions in our national intelligence chain of command - and that was all in the pre-pandemic days. There have also been a number of political decisions that were made after Covid-19 was identified, including when/how various travel bans and shut down orders were implemented, decisions about when/how and when not to activate the defense production act, how economic relief efforts should be focused and allocated, federal v. state resource procurement issues, and testing rollout - as well as a considerable number of other issues to say the least.
Point being, undoubtedly both sides of the political aisle will do their best to use the political issues that surround this pandemic to their advantage, but it seems to me that these are some pretty important issues that we very much ought to be discussing right now in terms of who we want leading us and handling these kinds of issues going forward. As it turns out, who we've got running our government is pretty important and can have a major impact on how we as a country manage the issues that we face, for better and for worse.
I'll also note that Dr. Fauci announced today that there is some very promising work being done on the treatment front, so buying time to that end has been effective. I'll also note that despite only having 60k deaths formally attributed to the virus thus far in the US, we're over 100k deaths beyond the normal, rolling average death range for the last 6 to 8 weeks (and that is with significantly reduced deaths from motor vehicle accidents) so the virus is doing a lot more damage than we currently have the testing capacity to track. The curve has surely flattened to some degree as a result of our efforts thus far, but we are a long way from being out of the woods in terms of making sure that our hospital systems don't become overwhelmed. I hope those temporary beds/tents won't be needed, but that horrific scenario is still a very real possibility in many places.
I wish this nightmare were over as much as everyone else does, and we all certainly can't stay in lockdown mode forever, but political calculations should have no part in perpetuating the shutdown nor should they be used to justify a premature re-opening. Epidemiologists and the statisticians in their support staff are the ones we ought to be taking our cues from for the time being until we have sufficient testing and tracking capabilities in place nationwide at a minimum - in the meantime most everything else is noise.
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.
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This quarantine was sold as a two week slow the spread so that hospitals were not overwhelmed. Nashville hospitals are not overwhelmed and had 65% decrease in admissions year over year in April. But Nashville is still shutdown and property taxes are going up and the summer tourist season has already been pretty much torpedoed. I didn't say it here, but closing the economy was easy, getting everybody to agree when to reopen is going to be a nightmare. In 6 months from now, there will not be a lot of talk of Covid-19 in my opinion but we will be talking a lot about the shutdown that changed America for a long, long time.
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39 minutes ago, Nash_12South said:
It will be interesting to see how wisely Nashville's Broadway bars approach reopening. Only if reopening in Nashville and TN goes smoothly do I see these bars reopening before July. Tourism folks will be loath to see images of packed (or even semi-packed) Nashville bars while hundreds a day are still dying from the virus. You'd think they are working on scenarios of limiting crowds, but that will mean more security and cleaning staff while generating less money. We really need 5th & Broad to open up and generate some interest in coming to visit without the intense bar scene. The next 2-3 weeks will be a huge test as states open up. Will we see the predicted cataclysmic rise in cases or not?
I think you will see a rise in cases whether anything opens or not due to the fact so many more people are being tested (including more of those that are not necessarily front line doctors, nurses and people showing symptoms). With each test they are learning the death and hospitalization percentages go down because more people are carrying the virus than thought. The concern would then be, do the death and hospitalization rates start to spike. (Whether they do spike or not, I would still hope people with underlying conditions and elderly continue to self quarantine when possible a little longer).
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48 minutes ago, DDIG said:What exactly does a second wave in Nashville look like though?
Our city's hospitalizations and deaths are probably among the lowest in the country per capita. Most Nashvillians still live in single family homes, and barely any of us ride public transportation. I think I've linked a study in here before out of 7,000 cases reviewed in China, only two were contracted outside - and the vast majority were in the home and public transportation transmissions.
With economy opening with people being smart about hygiene and distancing, I'm skeptical it ever can get too bad here (certainly recognizing that any death is a tragedy).
Exactly, 22 total deaths in a couple months for Nashville and none in the last 6 days. One is too many, but 12 people have committed suicide in Know county alone during the Covid-19 scare. Our suicide deaths over the next 12 months due to financial disaster and isolation are going to be staggering compared to Covid-19 (and will go unmentioned in most cases). The crazy thing is a lot of the people hurting the worst are laid off hospital workers having to watch how overwhelmed the hospitals are while they are at home on unemployment. Didn't mean to rant, but not a single person has to go outside or especially to a restaurant unless they want to go.
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Those condo's will have a nice view to the Ascend amphitheater
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1 hour ago, wreynol4 said:Surely the 3rd Tower now will be 40 stories, with all that is going on no other company in the country is benefiting as much as Amazon is with everyone staying at home.
That is certainly what I want to believe as well. However, now that I've seen my company of nearly 900 workers go from 90% in office everyday to a 100% work from home in the course of 3 days, I wonder if we will ever see office buildings getting bigger again.
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So they are starting on floor 4. That's one floor per year, since we first got word of this one. I think my impatience is due to the fact I can't wait to see it. I feel this one is going to tie the skyline together and make it more cohesive from several different angles. JW and Westin seem really far away from core when coming in from southeast but this will make it much better.
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1 hour ago, Sean blackdog said:Today this morning from Facebook Sky5.
The 505 will almost disappear from this angle when the 4 Seasons is finished.
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Cannot wait for this one to start speeding up a little. Just looking at the awesome pictures provided and it has only went from street level to about 2 floors above in 2 months.
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This started a couple weeks ago and I have not seen a bike or scooter use this lane yet, but it certainly has had an effect on traffic. Took an extra five minutes to exit the parking garage at CMT building which in turned added an extra 10 minutes to my commute. (The reason being the cars turning left on 4th back up past the turn lane, so two or three cars turn left and the rest are stuck with no access to the straight lane. ) I also drive Uber on Saturday sometimes and saw cars still using the lane all night on Saturday.
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9 minutes ago, NashWellington11 said:It's not Prince's. Literally other than Prince's and a few other small spots, Nashville hot chicken was NOT a thing even 10 years ago. To the extent it did exist it was predominantly an African-American cuisine.
Also, "Hattie B's" has always bothered me because it reeks of fake. It was founded and owned by two good ole boy white guys and then named "Hattie B's" to give an illusion of some older African-American woman back in the kitchen whipping up hot chicken.
Not usually one to side with those who cry "cultural appropriation" at everything, but there is definitely an argument to be made here.
I've got some sad news for you, but Aunt Jemima does not make the syrup and never did.
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Inner Loop - CBD, Downtown, East Bank, Germantown, Gulch, Rutledge
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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.