The Nashville Mayor¡¯s office colluded with Nashville Health Department to hide actual COVID-19 numbers from the city because the numbers were so low.
They wanted to hide this from the citizens.<br>
They hid the low numbers from their constituents.<br>
On June 30th, contact tracing was giving a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes causing problems 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?<br>
¡°Correct, not for public consumption.¡± Writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles<br>
A month later the health department is asked point blank about the rumor there are only 80 cases traced to bars and restaurants. Tennessean reporter Nate Rau asks ¡°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?<br>
Health department official Brian Todd asks 5 health department officials: Please advise how you recommend I respond. BT The name at the top of the response was clipped off but you may find the answer unacceptable. ¡°My two cents. We have certainly refused to give counts per bar because those numbers are low per site."<br>
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. Neither the health department or the mayor¡¯s office would confirm the authenticity of the emails but councilmember Steve Glover had a metro staff attorney inquire. Here¡¯s the official answer:<br>
¡°I was able to get verification from the Mayor¡¯s Office and the Department of Health that these emails are real¡± answered the staff attorney.<br>
The story is at The Gateway Pundit
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