Herrington: Our coronavirus situation is stable, but we still have choices to make
Rondell Williams (center) speaks with restaurant patrons at Mississippi Terrace at Bass Pro on May 23, 2020, including (from left) Chris Herrington, Joanna Curtis, Jennifer Biggs and Ray Young. (Ziggy Mack/The Daily Memphian file)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He and his wife have two kids and, for reasons that sometimes elude him, three dogs.
When the Memphis/Shelby County Joint COVID Task Force moved from daily to twice-weekly briefings this week, I saw it as a sign that living with the virus, and accepting that you’re living with it, means not being gripped by a crisis report day after day after day.
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