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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