As the Czar has repeatedly said over the past 6-months, this pandemic has been like Christmas time for these wannabe-totalitarians and no case exemplifies this better that what is going on in Nashville.
WZTV FOX-17 in Nashville broke a bomb shell showing how the mayor’s office along with the state’s health department coordinated to deceive the public about the low coronavirus numbers in order to keep the shutdown in place.
“The coronavirus cases on lower Broadway may have been so low that the mayor’s office and the Metro Health Department decided to keep it secret.
Emails between the mayor’s senior advisor and the health department reveal only a partial picture. But what they reveal is disturbing.
The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.
And most disturbingly, how to keep it from the public.
On June 30th, contact tracing was given a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes were found to be causing problems with more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases.
Leslie Waller from the health department asks, “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office?"
“Correct, not for public consumption,” writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles.”
A month later, a local reporter asked the health department about the exact number of cases tied to bars and restaurants.
The health department spokesman told the WZTV reporter Nate Rau that “more than 80 cases” had been tied to bars.
Rau then followed up the next day, asking “the figure you gave of ‘more than 80’ does lead to a natural question: If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn’t that mean restaurants and bars aren’t a very big problem?”
Health department official Brian Todd then asked five health department officials, “Please advise how you recommend I respond,” according to the news outlet.
One of the officials whose name was cut off replied, “My two cents. We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site.We could still release the total though, and then a response to the over 80 could be because that number is increasing all the time and we don’t want to say a specific number.”
City Councilman Steve Glover is not happy cover-up, he points that “we raised taxes 34 percent and put hundreds literally thousands of people out of work that are now worried about losing their homes, their apartments…and we did it on bogus data.”
Country music star Travis Tritt has another question: