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    This Passover, a global pandemic puts the 10 plagues in perspective

    Confined to our homes and apartments, Jews across Memphis, America and the world will impart the same timeless lessons of Passover via Zoom and digital touchpoints instead of large in-person seder gatherings.

    By Micah Greenstein February 22, 2025
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    Retail risk: Government should act to protect employees and public

    Commercial construction zones have mandates regarding hard hats and goggles. Fire marshals monitor occupancy levels in clubs and other settings. Shelby County and other local governments should take a leadership role to mandate rules for retailers and other employers during the pandemic.

    By Kevin Mireles, Gregory Miles Blumenthal April 06, 2020
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    Morris: We just need to keep walking

    Memphis has always been a religious city. We will rise to the occasion, because we are a city driven by the engine of faith. 

    By G. Scott Morris April 05, 2020
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    What Ellis Marsalis did for Memphis jazz

    By taking a chance on playing a concert at Rhodes College, Marsalis gave the Curb Institute credibility and paved the way for appearances by George Coleman, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Harold Mabern and Charles Lloyd.

    By John Bass April 05, 2020
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    Before ‘stay woke,’ Dr. King told us to ‘remain awake’ through the revolution

    This pandemic has awakened us to the fragility of our economy, which depends heavily on small business, hourly wages and gig economy workers. Maybe we are on the precipice of a revolution. Great crises usually inspire great change.

    By Terri Lee Freeman April 04, 2020
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    COVID-19 will show you no mercy if you show it no respect

    COVID-19 is three to five times more infectious than the flu, and up to 10 times more deadly. It can infect your entire respiratory tract from top to bottom. This is why so many victims wind up in an ICU on a ventilator. This is why young, healthy adults can die from it.

    By David Schwartz April 02, 2020
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    A pandemic brings value of telemedicine into focus

    Conferring with a medical professional by video helps individuals avoid hospitals, where they risk infecting others or coming into contact with disease.

    By Sajeesh Kumar April 02, 2020
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    Life after COVID-19: What’s it gonna be like?

    Most people I’ve spoken to in business and health care are questioning the old ways. What’s the point of these massive office buildings, inefficient meetings and travel? The new ways will save money and free up time, so why go back? 

    By Taylor Berger April 01, 2020
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    Detaining juveniles in a pandemic

    Critics have said that because detainees of Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County are juveniles and have not been convicted of a crime, they don’t pose a threat to the community. That makes for a good soundbite, but let’s pull back the curtain on one given day and review why these juveniles are in detention.

    By Dan Michael April 01, 2020
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    In a public health crisis, we should name names

    The first death from COVID-19 was reported in Shelby County March 28. For a while, we didn’t know that, because the governor wasn’t releasing deaths with county names.

    By Leanne Kleinmann April 01, 2020
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    Quarantine diary: Zoom, locusts and Stephen King

    Great things have come of being home and self-quarantined. For example, I’ve started reading again – reading voraciously. It started when my mom cleaned out the attic a week ago and found a box of my dad’s old books, including Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series.

    By A J Quinlen March 31, 2020
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    A mother’s open letter to schools

    Years from now, our children won’t remember the details of their classes or what exactly they learned in a class during this season. But they will never forget how you made them feel.

    By Anne Conrad March 30, 2020
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    A teacher shares strategies for learning at home

    This time together will be an exercise in partnership with your children. Define the home as a supportive place for each family member.

    By Lauren Boccia March 30, 2020
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    The art-less quarantine

    I have missed entire seasons of music, art and drama for no good reason at all. Now that they’re closed, they’re all I can think about. 

    By Jill Johnson Piper March 29, 2020
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    Food Bank recognizes a disaster by any other name

    Between March 12 and March 24, we distributed 1,267,630 pounds of food (154% increase), held 43 Mobile Pantry distributions (330% increase) and served 11,036 households (283% increase). 

    By Cathy Pope March 28, 2020
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    Waters: A bishop’s long Lent in coronavirus quarantine

    Rev. Brad Whitaker was Hamilton County’s first confirmed COVID-19 case. Church leaders and county health officials began notifying anyone who had come in contact with him. That list included Bishop Phoebe Roaf of the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee.

     

    By David Waters March 27, 2020
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    When to reopen America?

    We are suffering the consequences of a delayed national response in the deployment of test kits and relatively limited access to basic protection equipment for health providers.

    By Manoj Jain, Kenneth G. Castro, Carlos Del Rio March 26, 2020
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    Loss of smell may be an important clue in COVID-19 infection

    Common symptoms such as fever, cough and shortness of breath are touted by the CDC as clues that a person could be infected. In addition, there are new reports that patients with sudden anosmia, a loss of one’s sense of smell, could be infected with the virus.

    By Sanjeet Rangarajan March 26, 2020
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    Morris: A virus alters reality at Church Health

    Tomorrow when someone takes my temperature and hands me a mask and a paper bag, I’ll remember that everybody I’m about to see is also adjusting to new realities.

    By G. Scott Morris March 26, 2020
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    Berger: Lost my jobs and income, then I went for a run

    Yesterday I scraped up someone’s leaky trash bags from the side of the road and threw them into the back of a truck to haul off. It’s hard to believe just two weeks ago I was planning parties, booking bands and editing menus.

    By Taylor Berger March 25, 2020
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    Let’s ride this out – on a bike

    For the next four weeks, Explore Bike Share rentals are free of charge to all Memphians, 24/7. 

    By Anton Mack March 24, 2020
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    Quarantine diary: Kicked off campus

    Coronavirus has disrupted some of my friends’ lives far more than it’s unsettled mine. My senior friends won’t get to have graduation. And my international friends have a real dilemma: Should they stay in the States or go home?

    By A J Quinlen March 24, 2020
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    Virus throws a wrench in MIFA’s senior meal delivery system

    We will soon stop daily deliveries to protect both our clients and our volunteers and staff. That’s why we’re working now to get as many frozen and shelf-stable meals into seniors’ homes as we can, in case a day comes when we can’t deliver at all.

    By Sally Jones Heinz March 23, 2020
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    March playlist: Discover

    If you love what you hear, let the mix play a few times to be sure the artists see a few pennies. Now is the time to buy that extra record, download an album instead of streaming it, spring for that cool T-shirt or koozie or sticker.

    By Elizabeth Cawein March 22, 2020
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    LeMoyne-Owen College president remembers two philanthropists

    James S. Gilliland and Peter Formanek "changed the life trajectory for many of our students who are often first generation college-goers, and who would, otherwise, have little to no opportunity to contribute meaningfully in our society."

    By Carol Johnson-Dean March 22, 2020

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