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Mayor Cooper greets students at Inglewood Elementary’s first day back in the classroom, Feb. 9, 2021Photo: Nashville.gov
Rachel Thomas’ daughter has never set foot inside Eakin Elementary School, where she is enrolled in kindergarten. She’s made some new friends via teleconferencing but she likely won’t sit in a classroom until she reaches first grade in the fall.
Her schooling experience to date has been defined by disruption. In March of last year, her Metro-run pre-kindergarten center was shuttered because of the tornado. She briefly returned to class before the building was closed again due to COVID-19.
A Year of COVID Tweet Share
At the beginning of 2020, most of us probably didn’t even know what an N95 mask was. Since then, roughly 90,000 Nashvillians have contracted the illness known worldwide as COVID-19. That means somewhere in the neighborhood of 13 of every 100 Davidson County residents has tested positive for the virus, with the fatality rate hovering around 0.7 percent.
COVID-19 has impacted Nashvillians in countless ways, and its fallout will surely continue to affect us even after the cases and fatalities have finally subsided. In this issue, we explore how the virus has hit Nashville over the past 12 months from the restaurant and music-venue worlds to public education, transit and beyond.
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Honky Tonk Central, Sept. 6, 2020Photo: Alex Kent
In July, as Nashville was hitting new highs for COVID-19 positivity rates and hospitalizations were surging across Tennessee, TMZ published a video of Lower Broadway with the title âNo-Maskville.â The nearly 90-second clip taken from a car shows what looks like a normal scene for the street on a weekend night â and thatâs what was so confounding about it. Large crowds crammed into small indoor bars, with many more people milling around outside waiting to get in, most of them apparently unmasked. A shirtless man strolls by in the foreground.
It was one of several videos and images from Nashvilleâs main tourist destination that spread around the internet over the past year to the shock and horror of many observers. The images further prompted a question that one might have already felt compelled to ask: What the hell is going on down there?Â
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