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Tuesday, December 22, 2020

BACK ROOM QUESTIONS – Dad Gone Wild

BACK ROOM QUESTIONS – Dad Gone Wild
BACK ROOM QUESTIONS



“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

Things are bad in Tennessee in relation to COVID-19. Case rates are the highest in the country, and open hospital beds are becoming scarce. As Christmas approaches, fears are ratcheting up for another after the holiday explosion. Especially as many schools are scheduled to re-open for in-person learning the first week in January.

The danger of the current circumstances was highlighted for Governor Lee when his wife was diagnosed with the Coronavirus at the end of the week. In response, a news conference for Sunday at 7 pm was hastily scheduled, with the announcement that local TV stations would carry his words. Speculation ran rampant on what the Governor would say. Some thought he might go as far as to institute a statewide mask mandate, something he’d previously been resistant to instituting.

Sunday, 7 pm arrived, and with it came a mad scramble to find the Governors speech. It wasn’t on any of the stations as advertised, and if you took longer than 8 minutes to find it on an alternative source, you missed it.

What you missed remains unclear because the Governor managed to address a crisis without CONTINUE READING: BACK ROOM QUESTIONS – Dad Gone Wild