Politics Portland mayor's office and health department 'concealed data showing low infection rates

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  1. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Oops, did I say Portland, nope it was Nashville's.

    Nashville mayor's office and health department 'concealed data showing low infection rates of just 22 coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants' while enforcing crippling shutdowns, leaked emails reveal

    • Emails show Mayor John Cooper's senior adviser and health department officials discussing how much coronavirus data they should release publicly
    • In at least two instances in June and July, the officials chose not to disclose data which showed very few cases linked to bars and restaurants on lower Broadway
    • City Councilman Steve Glover accused city officials of orchestrating a cover-up
    • He charged that the officials used 'fabricated' data to justify restrictions that have run many of Nashville's bars and restaurants out of business
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ed-coronavirus-data-leaked-emails-reveal.html
     
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    "Abject Failure."
     
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  3. THE HCP

    THE HCP NorthEastPortland'sFinest

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    I have family that lives there and they told me "firsthand" that this is true!
     
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    what was the reason for this? any given?
     
  5. SlyPokerDog

    SlyPokerDog Woof! Staff Member Administrator

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    Proactive vs reactive.
     
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    I guess that makes sense

    but you just can't give those that trash government at every turn any ammunition. Don't conceal the data
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I'm writing in Lillard for Mayor of Nashville.

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    The buck stops where again?
     
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    Ex-Nashville council member, a coronavirus skeptic, dies from Covid-19
    Tony Tenpenny had been in the hospital for more than a month before succumbing to the deadly virus he questioned.


    Sept. 21, 2020, 1:12 PM PDT
    By David K. Li and Ali Gostanian
    A former Nashville, Tennessee, council member, who believed the threat of the coronavirus was being radically overblown, died from complications from Covid-19, officials said Monday.

    The man, Tony Tenpenny, died over the weekend after more than five weeks in the hospital fighting the virus that has sickened more than 6.8 million people in the U.S. and killed at least 200,000 others, Nashville Vice Mayor Jim Shulman said.


    Nashville Mayor John Cooper, who wears a mask in his Twitter profile picture, said in a statement: "I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former councilman Tony Tenpenny. I send my condolences to his wife, Robbie, their son Ira and the rest of the Tenpenny family."

    Tenpenny, 57, was a member of the Metropolitan Council, which governs the city of Nashville and Davidson County. He represented District 16, neighborhoods south of downtown Nashville, for one term before losing his bid for re-election in 2015.

    Over the past several months, Tenpenny had been very active on social media voicing his support for President Donald Trump and his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement and expressing extreme skepticism about the coronavirus.

    On May 30, Tenpenny posted a statement on Facebook falsely attributed to former Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., putting forward conspiracy theories that the virus is nothing more than a political trick to derail Trump's re-election bid.

    Gowdy did not make such a statement, and Facebook labeled Tenpenny's reposting as "false information."

    Then, on June 29, Tenpenny posted a meme that equated wearing a mask to being "manipulated to live in irrational fear" and willing "to be controlled by a socialist agenda."

    And on July 7, he wrote that "the CDC and the WHO are pure lying (expletive)" and that public health officials are "not telling you the truth."

    Tenpenny made more than a dozen posts stating or sharing Covid-19 disinformation, including video from a Texas doctor who peddled dangerous theories about the virus, linking its cause to demons. Facebook flagged the July 29 posing by Tenpenny as "Partly False Information."

    Tenpenny ran again for the District 16 seat again last year and lost by 4 percentage points to council member Ginny Welsch.

    "The message to me is that Covid is no joke, it knows no boundary, and no matter what you might believe, it doesn't care," Welsch said in a statement Monday. "Anyone can be felled by it. Not taking the precautions we know work to slow the spread is like playing Russian roulette. You are risking your life and the lives of those around you."

    Shulman, the vice mayor, said that he and Tenpenny rarely agreed on issues but that he believed Tenpenny made sincere efforts to "try to get along with as many people as possible."

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...er-coronavirus-skeptic-dies-covid-19-n1240645
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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  11. julius

    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    I was going to write in Jadeveon Clowny, but realized he wouldn't be as popular as Mayor. So I then thought maybe Seth Jones, he was a great hockey player when he played in Nashville. But then no, Marcus Mariota, but he sucked. So I settled on Steve McNair.

    That's who I'm going to suggest people write in for Mayor of Nashville.
     
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    Dolly Parton?
     
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    julius Global Moderator Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Dolly would actually be a good candidate, she actually has a soul.
     
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    UncleCliffy'sDaddy We're all Bozos on this bus.

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    Gosh Nashville is such a cesspit of corruption and dishonesty Trump should send in troops, the National Guard and agents from every LE agency in the country. Law and order dammit!!! Thank God we have the media to give us the straight skinny.......otherwise we might have false impressions of a town 2300 miles away that we don’t live in......
     
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