COVID-19: 8/13/2020 Update
“Is it the weekend, yet?” Urban Boy, age five, asks me this each morning as I stumble out to make coffee in the kitchen, where he’s been patiently waiting for his coffee bean. We’re working on...
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Knox County Board of Health Decides Not to Reduce Maximum Group Sizes
The Board of Heath met for their regularly scheduled meeting with an item on the agenda to consider reducing sizes of social gatherings which would be allowed under current regulations. The current limit was fifty and...
COVID-19: 8/12/2020 Update (Including Today’s Health Department Briefing)
Good Wednesday! We’re halfway through another action-packed week. New benchmark information is provided below which should give us a glimpse of how we are doing locally. Recent numbers of hospitalizations seem to be better and deaths...
COVID-19: 8/11/2020 Update
It’s a new day and a great day for beginnings. I was pleased to tell the story this morning of a new business opening in the downtown area. Lauren’s inspirational spirit during a difficult time was...
COVID-19: 8/10/2020 Update (Including the Health Department Briefing)
I hope you each had some happy time this weekend. We enjoyed some fresh Alabama gulf shrimp on the grill, thanks to Hen Hoc. This means so much to us. The Alabama gulf coast was home...
COVID-19: 8/7/2020 Update (Including Health Department Briefing)
It’s Friday and I hope you all find a way to make your weekend a good one. We’re all stressed, worried, frustrated or some combination of each of those. It’s easy right now for that toxic...
COVID-19: 8.6.2020 Update
It is a measure of how things have changed that I “attend” meetings like the Board of Health meeting last night from the comfort of my home, with a five and eleven-year-old underfoot. The biggest measure...
Knox County Board of Health Hosts Public Forum and Re-Opens Bars
After opening the meeting, the public forum began, with speakers and Mayor Jacobs joining from the City County Building. Thirteen people were present and he requested that they all be able to speak, even though that...
COVID-19: Update 8/5/2020 (Including Health Department Briefing)
Did you get outside last night? It felt just a touch like autumn and I don’t think I’m hallucinating. Just from personal impression, it seems we’ve had more delightful nights this summer than usual. I’m usually...
COVID-19: 8/4/2020 Update
There is some strangeness in today’s numbers, so I’m going a little lighter on searching for links and take time for a closer look at some of the data. On the surface there would appear to...