r/nashville • u/brooks_requiem13 • Jan 02 '21
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u/iprocrastina Jan 02 '21
I live downtown and what struck me was that yesterday was far busier than NYE. Apparently everyone thought to stay home NYE to avoid the crowds, but then everyone had the same idea to go down there NYD.
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u/StarDatAssinum Cleveland Park Jan 02 '21
Well, all the bars were supposed to close around 11pm on NYE. I have no idea whether they enforced this on Broadway, but I’ll bet a good amount of people didn’t bother going out because they thought about what’s the point of going out on NYE if you can’t watch the ball drop or do the countdown?
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u/AllG0nePeteT0ng Jan 04 '21
Well, all the bars were supposed to close around 11pm on NYE.
Imagine that conversation at City Hall:
"Mr. Mayor, it's well known that this virus is only infectious after 11:00 pm, so how 'bout we close the bars then?"
"Perfect, let's do it!"
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u/themusicman4001 Jan 02 '21
I've lost a few clients over the year by telling them the need to mask up in my office. Good riddance, I say.
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u/don51181 Jan 02 '21
That's great. I've never seen a business challenge someone who came in without a mask. I think if you bold enough to do that than you got ego to survive getting kicked out.
Its like a stupid power play the non-mask people are doing. They know the mandate and see the door sign but still walk past it.
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u/austin_throw_awayy Jan 02 '21
I've lost quite a few sales (I work in mattresses) because people don't wanna wear masks. "YoU jUsT dOn'T wAnNa HeLp Me"
Nah dog, I dont wanna get fired or get fined because you're in my establishment without a mask. "Oh I forgot it at home" so you forgot about the mandate too? Sorry to rant, I've just been cussed at quite a few times. It's nice to see that there are SOME people out there who don't hate it when businesses enforce mandates
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u/ellceeNSH Jan 02 '21
I’m currently scheduling a move and looking for a new mattress! So if you’re local and work off of commission, I would love to give you a sale/my business!
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '21
Hey where are you located? I have been needing a new mattress and i have been putting it off since the pandemic started. I will spend my cash with a place that supports doing the right thing. Its a win win for my lungs and back.
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u/dab_master710 Jan 03 '21
I love it when they do that. Just smile, say thank you and ignore them. Works the best!
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u/Oraxy51 Jan 03 '21
I’ve seen Dominos store literally give people masks like “I can’t let you in unless you have a mask, if you wear this I’ll be happy to take your order”.
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u/austin_throw_awayy Jan 03 '21
That's our policy. We have a sign on the door, free masks at the front, and at my desk. Sometimes that isnt even enough lol
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u/BostonDodgeGuy Jan 03 '21
I've been driving a tow truck for the past few months. The amount of people I've had to chew out for trying to get into my truck with no mask is infuriating. I'm responsible for the tow, not your stupid ass. Mask up or walk.
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u/Inukchook Jan 03 '21
Good for you but the real question is do I need to wear pants ! That’s where I draw the line
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u/HERCULESxMULLIGAN Jan 02 '21
Covid Canyon is a name that needs to stick.
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u/pm_me_ur_pop_tarts Donelson Jan 02 '21
Renamed Hillbilly Bourbon Street to Covid Canyon - I like it!
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u/redditmyeggos Jan 02 '21
This fucking town.
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u/crowcawer Old 'ickory Village Jan 02 '21
Drinking at home:
✅safe
✅cheap
✅choicesDrinking on Broadway in a pandemic:
❓ Woo!
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u/TheCapitalKing Jan 02 '21
To be fair bachelorette parties tend to not show up at my house. Which is a pro and a con
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u/firesoftheforges Jan 03 '21
The beauty in this is the addition of "tend not to."
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u/DJEricSpear Jan 02 '21
I left because I can’t live in a place that cares so little about everyone. In 2002 when I first moved to Nashville I remember how amazing the vibe was and I felt at home with all these positive people. Now this..
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u/steelcityblue Jan 02 '21
Where did you escape to?
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u/DJEricSpear Jan 02 '21
Shhhh don’t tell anyone but Chattanooga and it’s been such a great change!
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u/space_________ghost Jan 03 '21
Yeah it's great there but the politics are even worse.
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u/PattyIce32 Jan 03 '21
I totally did not have a good time in Chattanooga. It was definitely a terrible place that did not have a good variety of food and nice people. The quick access to hiking was very inconvenient.
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u/RemoteBoner Jan 02 '21
All of these fucking mouth breathers are from flyover country.
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u/othmuse Donelson Jan 03 '21
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio, mostly. I work on Broadway, and it’s every Midwest state’s weekend getaway.
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u/TheCapitalKing Jan 02 '21
We’re in Tennessee? The whole state is flyover country lol
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u/TheBeastX47 Jan 02 '21
Alabama resident here. Tennessee is nice. You should be thankful it isn't Alabama. Lol
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u/MeditatingYope Jan 02 '21
Former Alabama resident here now relocated in Nashville. I've been missing Birmingham, is it worse there? Fuck this place (because of the above people in the video, not those who follow the rules).
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u/RebelsLegalTeam Jan 04 '21
I'm from Birmingham as well. The answer to your question is yes. There's a reason it's not as crowded and, subsequently, safer. If Birmingham had the tourism that Nashville had, it would be much worse.
Hot take: the food in Birmingham is better.
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u/TheCapitalKing Jan 02 '21
I love TN but that doesn’t mean it isn’t flyover country. Being flyover is nice it means rent is affordable and the people are usually less smug. And AL isn’t bad I really like Huntsville
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u/UltimateBrotherInLaw Jan 03 '21
Can we all Agree to what is officially “fly over country” because I do t think Tennessee qualifies
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u/EllisDeeAndBenZoe Jan 03 '21 edited Feb 12 '21
Yeah I wouldn’t count Tennessee as a flyover state.
As far as the southeast goes, I’d say Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, and West Virginia are the flyover states.
Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, and Florida are all states with internationally recognized tourist attractions and/or business districts.
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u/rockytoptennessee Jan 02 '21
I’m in Knoxville and we look down on our visitors from the surrounding counties the way the rest of the country looks down on us. It’s a hierarchy lol
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u/JuniorSeniorTrainee Jan 03 '21
Who do they look down on?
Actually let's just skip to the end of the thread: who do Alabamans look down on?
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u/adambiguous Jan 03 '21
Shoeless feet? The top of their cousins head? People from Mississippi?
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u/_______the______ Jan 02 '21
My understanding was that Nashville attracted more tourists than say Jackson, Cookeville, or Kingsport.
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u/TheCapitalKing Jan 02 '21
Yeah, but being the biggest city on a flyover state doesn’t mean your not still in a flyover state lol
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u/Darcynator1780 Jan 02 '21
Tn is flyover country and I know plenty of locals that frequent Broadway
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u/GoHomeBecauseCovid Jan 02 '21
What’s the mask mandate violation citation amount supposed to be? Like $50? Seems like a pretty easy way to bring in a little (or a lot of) much-needed cash. 🤔
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u/mrjacank Wilson County Jan 02 '21
The most frustrating thing is watching a group of cops talking without their masks to others, also not masked. Awesome.
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u/MusicForMotivation Jan 02 '21
Yeah...but you saw how MNPD treated a white terrorist bomber, you think they give a fuck about enforcing masks?
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u/BlondieBabe436 Jan 02 '21
Probably 90% of these people aren't from Nashville, or Tennessee in general. A lot of out of state travelers that will be heading back home. This is exactly why we can't contain the virus. It spreads, and so long as people travel it will continue to spread.
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u/talk_murder_to_me Jan 02 '21
THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS!
I'd bet that most of these maskless fucktards are the same ones whinging on about why it's not over yet. They're shitting all over the carpets and wondering why the house stinks.
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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Jan 02 '21
Are you trying to say that Broadway is/was a "nice thing"?
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u/talk_murder_to_me Jan 02 '21
Are you trying to say that Broadway is/was a "nice thing"?
Oh hell no. The "nice things" are everything we used to do without a second thought or fear of death, like taking a walk or going to a bar or a concert or the grocery store or on a date or having a haircut or going bowling. All the things these people are bitching about missing out on because they can't be bothered to respect someone else's well-being for a short period of time, as if their mild inconvenience is more important than human life.
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u/TheEyeOfSmug Jan 02 '21
How is the rest of Nashville doing? I haven’t visited home in a couple of years.
Do you only see this downtown, or all over the place like grocery stores/home depot/etc? I know here, everyone is masked up unless they are around their “pods”.
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u/Chi_Sao_ Jan 02 '21
Surprised but not surprised by seeing this... if you walk down 12 south on a Saturday recently it’s as busy but everyone is wearing masks and eager to keep a distance when waiting in line for an hour to eat at frothy monkey or bar taco.
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u/imjustheretobehere Jan 02 '21
Hillsboro village is about the same. I feel like I don't see enough masks there. Pancake pantry still has that line around the building.
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u/space_________ghost Jan 03 '21
Hillsboro gets tourists that's probably why.
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u/c0ldgurl Jan 04 '21
What's the fucking deal with tourists? Are they really as stupid at home as they are when they're visiting my town? Did they forget there's a pandemic just because they're on vacation?
It's infuriating.
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u/MooCower Jan 02 '21
The rest of the city is masked like 90% I'd say. Most everyone follows the rules in grocery, box stores(but little less so), coffee shops nearly (98%), etc...
Downtown is always a shit show. The biggest problem is the lack of state level leadership, it's been left to "the responsibility of the people, and I guess the mayors" -Bill Lee
Mayor Cooper has done pretty well considering the insane amount of backlash from the minority in town (and the large majority out side of town) but Lee hasn't done shit and even less then shit at times when it's extremely critical. Lee has so pointless much blood on his hands it's insane and he's completely spineless.
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u/Jollydogg Jan 02 '21
Bill Lee is a piece of shit. Full stop.
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u/blueholeload Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21
I for one am shocked that a guy who inherited a business thought he’d be successful in government
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u/Jollydogg Jan 02 '21
Didn’t you know? Businessmen will make excellent and supportive politicians for the common citizen.
This is the way.
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u/WhiskeyFF Jan 02 '21
In my interactions the people who complain the most about Davidson county are the ones who don’t live in Davidson county, we’re just their only lifeline of money and healthcare. They’re too good to live here but feel the need to interject all their opinions into us.
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u/Mr_EBooks Jan 02 '21
This 100%. Leadership is failing us. Just today Blackburn and Haggerty announced operation fucktard — an effort to oppose the electoral results.
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u/MooCower Jan 02 '21
Yep. God Damn Lizard people. https://twitter.com/alexlittletn/status/1345432824019623936?s=21
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u/diddlebunnyman Jan 02 '21
If this pandemic has shown us anything it’s that the majority of our political leadership are weak and spineless.
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u/GrandmaCereal Jan 02 '21
Maybe it's because I live in Rutherford, but I strongly disagree. When I'm out and about, I rarely see anyone wearing masks properly, let alone wearing them at all. Just the other day I had someone standing 2019 close to me in the check out line at the pet store. I haaate going out. Hate it. But I'm raising a service dog in training and part of his training is socialization, so I try to limit my time out. But Jesus it's a mess.
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u/MooCower Jan 02 '21
Yeah I said the majority outside of town don't seem to care about themselves, their neighbors, their families, or they're community as a whole. I just used less words.
Outside of town = just past the 440 loop and the selfish dickbag level raises significantly with every mile, in every direction... It's sad.
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u/TolerableISuppose Jan 02 '21
To be fair, Bellevue is probably 90% masked
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u/53eleven Jan 02 '21
My condo building (well within the 440 loop) residents are about a 1/4 masked up and I’ve had to ask two staff members to please wear their masks while inside my home.
I’ve gotten in the elevator (alone and carrying a a bass guitar, a messenger bag, and a box of Xmas presents) and two unmasked party goers (they were dressed nice & carrying food like they were on their way to a Xmas potluck) got on behind me. I didn’t say anything that time, just got right off and took the stairs.
I’m done being quiet about it. If your laziness and/or inability to understand or accept science is putting my health/life at risk, you and me have a problem.
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u/TolerableISuppose Jan 02 '21
Oh, I lost my chill a long time ago. ICU nurse here AND my FIL died in July of Covid. I will never understand the rampant selfishness of others.
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u/53eleven Jan 02 '21
I’m so sorry for your loss.
I’m really struggling today understanding how there can be such an enormous segment of the population who can’t do the simplest thing to protect all of us.
I thought it was a uniquely American problem until I read about the huge party in France where party goers clashed with police. Fighting for your right to party, literally. It’s gross.
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u/TolerableISuppose Jan 02 '21
So. Gross.
The worst part? I’m a really easy going person who is now low key angry all the time. I hate it.
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u/jumpingjackisonfire Jan 02 '21
Ugh THIS. I’m not usually a person with a lot of anger, but I find myself with a near constant low key rage brewing. I HATE it.
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u/Tehcoremeister Jan 02 '21
Dude, I relate so hard to this. I feel like I've spent an entire quarter of this year stewing with rage and I'm usually the most patient, laid-back person. Most of it has come from family going out of their way to be shitty.
Bet you can't guess what their political and religious affiliations are. /s
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u/MooCower Jan 02 '21
I haven't been out there recently, but I grew up in Bellevue and I could see this being the case. Good to hear.
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u/gutsyhalfling Jan 02 '21
It’s because you are in Rutherford. My parents live in Murfreesboro and when I go help them I’m always disgusted by the lack of mask wearing. I’m in South Nashville and I couldn’t tell you the last time saw someone at the store without a mask.
I’m terrified for my parents. They’re “following“ the rules but also, like, leisurely shopping.
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u/WarGeagle1 Jan 02 '21
Exact same for my parents and me. And like half the people I went to HS with (that never leave Rutherford county except to go drink on Broadway once a year) are posting on social media things like “plandemic”, “99.9 survival rate bro”, “they’re micro-chipping the vaccine”, so I have no hope in the virus ending in RuCo anytime soon.
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u/colorofwater Jan 02 '21
Where in Rutherford are you, out of curiosity? We're in Smyrna and pretty much everyone has been masked when we're out and about.
We went to Mt. Juliet near Christmas and it was far less masked and sort of shocking.
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u/GrandmaCereal Jan 02 '21
We're in Murfreesboro.
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u/colorofwater Jan 02 '21
Oi, that's a big ol yikes. I honestly sort of expected Murfreesboro to be on par with or better than Smyrna regarding mask usage. We have a few under the nosers, and granted I haven't been to many places outside of Publix and Target, but mask use has been pretty solid here.
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u/jonneygee Jan 02 '21
I just politely but firmly call people out. “Can you stay six feet back, please?” Sometimes they’re surprised to have someone say something, but no one has pushed back on me yet. I think even the most “mUh fReEdOm” anti-maskers understand the 6’ thing.
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u/TechInventor Jan 02 '21
I politely asked someone (without a mask) to please back up and she stayed put and breathed extra hard for the next few mins. Stay classy, Nashville 🙄
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u/WarGeagle1 Jan 02 '21
Something similar happened to my MIL the other day (who lives in another state). She was at Publix getting a few things when a dude without a mask came up close by, so she just took a few steps to get farther from him, and didn’t even say anything. Then the dude intentionally got right next to her and smiled.
Wtf is wrong with people? She’s on chemo meds so her immune system is almost non-existent. Covid would be a death sentence. But even if she were healthy, no one wants Covid. She just walked completely away which I commend her for because it would’ve taken all my strength not to hit the guy with the largest thing on the shelf in front of me.
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u/GrandmaCereal Jan 02 '21
Yep, I was at the airport back in October and someone literally ran into the back of me. I panicked and asked them to please step back to the little sticker behind them. They scoffed and told me to fuck off. So.
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u/LameDonaldDuck Williamson County Jan 02 '21
Businessmen seem to think they can do the job of public leadership because of inflated egos, and silver spoons up their ass until they realize that elected roles are not the same as executive positions where being born fortunate enough is mostly sufficient.
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u/dragonslayer300814 Jan 02 '21
The people who voted for these douchcanoes need to realize this as well.
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u/ISUTri Jan 02 '21
How is it in places like Franklin? I moved from Williamson right before the pandemic. Where I live now 90%+ mask up. I’m betting Williamson county is a lot less than that...
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21
I quit my job in downtown Franklin because my boss wasn't requiring anyone to wear a mask in the store even though there's a countywide mask mandate so.....
Edit: someone replied and then deleted their reply. It said something about how I was basically bragging about not working. That’s not at all what I am intending to do. I’m letting OP know that many people in Williamson county are not wearing masks or taking covid seriously.
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u/heavynewspaper Jan 02 '21
Depends where you go. Sam’s Club just had to shut down two days before Christmas to sanitize the store, but Publix is pretty good about it.
Most quick service restaurants and gas stations are a nightmare and few to no staff have a mask on. Looking at you, Twice Daily and Little Caesars...
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u/blueholeload Jan 02 '21
Walked into the Harley store to pick out something for my grandfather and walked right back out. No masks on anyone.
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u/ISUTri Jan 02 '21
I haven’t been to Little Caesars since I was a broke college student... but I do miss Publix. Might be over priced but the people were always nice and helpful
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u/Linguatron Jan 02 '21
About 30% of my customers walk right past two signs and a table with masks directly in front of the door so that they have to make an effort to walk around it, then act all surprised when I ask them to put a mask on. Not too many people get bent out of shape about it. Those that do get super pissed and start ranting/debating like they're unhinged. Curious.
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u/Broken_Man_Child Donelson Jan 02 '21
There are not surprisingly some tough guys at home depot still not wearing it, but I’d say even there it’s like 95% masked.
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u/Reynman Jan 02 '21
Yeah a lot of the locals here in Davidson county at least are good about it. What you see downtown is tourists bringing their ignorance and lack of empathy from their homes to us.
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u/guccimeemaw Jan 02 '21
There are signs all up and down the street that say mask up or stay home. Lol. Obviously not enforced
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u/barto5 Jan 02 '21
You must have gone early. We drove thru around 2pm and it was even more crowded! Unbelievable.
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u/lbcordell575 Jan 02 '21
This is why here in TN we have the worst numbers in the world... I swear
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u/uSidney03 Jan 03 '21
Bro here in Rio aglomerations are a thousand times worst than this, it's very sad tbh
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u/brooks_requiem13 Jan 02 '21
Took this video Jan 1. Don’t blame the bars— I’m in restaurants myself. They’ve had it really rough downtown this year and with no police enforcement (even though they are swarming around downtown) it’s really hard to manage those crowds especially when they are outside the bars. But it’s ridiculous the mayor (who I honestly don’t think has done a bad job given all that’s happened his first year in office) says they’re going to start enforcing the “party of 8” ordinance when the main street in nashville looks like this all the time.
Also for those of you who don’t know Tennessee has been close to the top of the rankings in terms of cases per 100,000 for the past two weeks and has no statewide mandate against masks.
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u/racinreaver Jan 03 '21
Best of luck from Los Angeles. Things are bad here, even with most people willing to mask up. Like anyone who has a coworker who refuses to call out sick, it only takes one ass to give it to everyone.
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u/Jackthememe69 Jan 02 '21
Drove through Broadway on NYE. It was even worse. Huge crowds of people packed like sardines. Not a mask in sight.
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u/CakeMaster3000 Jan 02 '21
The masks is one thing. But there was just a whole terrorist bombing...
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u/Chaniatreides95 Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 12 '21
didn't you know that covid-19 is over? that was a 2020 thing, it's 2021 now. /s
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u/_Rainer_ Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 03 '21
I've recently moved out to Knoxville, and I've gotta say, Nashville is doing a bang up job of following mask guidelines compared to what I'm seeing over here.
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u/Careful-Article-7163 Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21
I think deep under the crust of the Cumberland Plateau is some sort of pulsating biological magnet that attracts idiots. Because TN is overflowing with them. Lord I love my hometown but it is a nonstop source of embarrassment.
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u/truncheon88 Jan 02 '21
Pretty sure there's troglodytes living in the karst cave systems in the area, and they're coming aboveground, breeding with the homosapiens into a troglosapien smooth brain hybrid with an overstimulated amygdala reptilian fear center; smart enough to do daily tasks to keep the system churning, yet malleable and susceptible enough to believe anything spoonfed to them and angry at everything due to persecution complexes.
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u/Elbarfo Jan 02 '21
I know right? It's almost as if it keeps attracting more and more of them here every year in droves. They like it so much they end up staying. Now we're filled to the rim with them.
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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '21
Last I heard they were #1 in the country for transmission??
Can’t fix stupid.
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u/kizerthehater Jan 02 '21
Oof. The people I saw in downtown over the last two days. They’re not from here to be sure.
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u/MusicForMotivation Jan 02 '21
Fuck these people as the majority of folks in the live concert production industry out of Nashville continues to be shut down.
🖕🏼🖕🏼
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u/LoloH12 south side Jan 02 '21
Nashville resident here. Me and my husband both work in live concert production. This is the most frustrating thing possible. No solid work for almost a year now, and I’m not holding my breath that we will be back to normal until at least mid-2022. It’s a really sad time. I can’t help but feel that if everyone wore a mask, social distanced and stayed inside (unless absolutely needed) for a couple of weeks, we’d be back just about back to having large events by now.
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u/MusicForMotivation Jan 02 '21
New Zealand proved it.
The majority of Americans this day and age are selfish, ignorant fucks...as a whole.
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u/H1ckwulf Doesn't know everything Jan 03 '21
New Zealand is an island country in the Pacific Ocean with the size of Colorado and population of Louisiana. Not even close to the same thing as the USA.
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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Jan 02 '21
New Zealand proved what we were all taught by the game Pandemic- that it's not too difficult to shut down an island when a pandemic starts.
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u/mustangwwii Jan 02 '21 edited Jan 02 '21
If everyone stayed inside for just two weeks we wouldn’t be anywhere near having large events.
Look at any European country with a large population, the ones who had strict lockdowns and social distancing policies are nowhere near having big events.
Look at Germany for example, they had a pretty strict lockdown for most of the pandemic and once they started easing up on it, the infections began picking back up. Look at their graph, it speaks for itself.
Edit: I want to make it clear that I’m not arguing against social distancing or any lockdown policies. I’m just trying to say that strict lockdowns aren’t going to quickly end the pandemic and make things go back to normal (for example two weeks lol). They only reduce the amount of ongoing cases and deaths which is an absolute positive.
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u/jarnhestur Jan 03 '21
Correct. It’s a lie to make people feel better and follow the rules. It’s needed, like you say, to reduce transmission and therefore hospitalization and deaths.
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u/mjolnirredditer Jan 02 '21
Let's truly hope that new variant is easily beaten... Cause I swear man, the day we get hit with something on the scale of the Spanish flu, the loss of lives on this planet will surpass a billion. Our stupidity as a people knows no limits.
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u/mustangwwii Jan 02 '21
I feel like people would take it serious if the death rate were higher than 1-5%. People are selfish and they think if they’re healthy, it’s not a big deal. They ignore the fact that they may be spreading it to people that are high risk.
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u/GoHuskers30 Jan 03 '21
This is crazy man. I live in Colorado and I genuinely don’t remember the last person I saw in public without a mask. I’m not sure if there’s a requirement here and not there or whatever, but still the geographical and political contrast is stark
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u/PattyIce32 Jan 03 '21
And the crazy thing is people watching this who haven't been to the city don't realize is this street is very small. It would be extremely easy to police and enforce mask regulations. They simply do not care
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u/Rajun_Cajun1 Wears a mask in public. 😷 Jan 02 '21
Sevier County is even worse
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u/blueholeload Jan 02 '21
My ex and I got a cabin in May and when we drove down to Gatlinburg just to get out a bit you would have thought nothing was out of the ordinary.
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u/Mr_EBooks Jan 02 '21
I shut down my Bachelorette tourism business for all of 2020. Looks like I’ll still be in eCommerce for another year. People need education.
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u/thehitch1 Jan 02 '21
And that’s how we roll here in TN.....let’s let everyone come to town because they aren’t requiring the tourists to mask up and help us be the true Volunteer State, to be the super spreader capital OF THE WORLD!
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u/kungfoo_killer Jan 02 '21
native nashvillian and ready to move. City leaders are corrupt. Lee is a coward.
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u/leechkiller Green Hills Game Room Jan 02 '21
This makes me want to open a business just so I can kick people out for not wearing a mask.
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u/jonesnonsins Jan 02 '21
I give you an up-vote, but really want to down vote the displayed behavior.
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u/Maleficent_Youth_215 Jan 02 '21
So I live downtown on the south side of Broadway and I went out to the Shell Station on Hermitage and no one, including the clerk, but me had a mask on. I just moved back from the North and it was umm, surprising because I stopped at gas station in Dickson the other day and everybody was masked up.
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u/mental_soup Jan 03 '21
Well that's what you get when you live with ignorant dipshits that take it as a point of pride to become bigger dipshits when you call them out on how ignorant and dipshitty they are.
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u/alanis_liberty Jan 02 '21
I know of one business in the entirety of downtown that is actually enforcing the mask mandate. I don’t typically shop there, but I’ve been making a point to do so now. 😂
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u/AnnieB512 Jan 03 '21
Don’t you know that Jan. 1, 2021 was the reset and there is no more fake COVID???? /s
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u/_ALoverOfTheLight Jan 03 '21
My sister texted me after I dropped her off at the airport yesterday saying how the majority of the people had their masks under their nose or off completely and weren’t eating or drinking. She was shocked and came from FL so that’s saying a ton....
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u/[deleted] Jan 03 '21
I miss the days where people worried about themselves and minded their own business. Remember those days? Pepperidge Farms remembers
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u/MungTao Jan 03 '21
They should have just lied and say masks help prevent YOU from getting it, instead of preventing spreading it to OTHERS. People are fucking assholes and cant be trusted to do the right thing.
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u/NosikaOnline Jan 03 '21
Got a COVID test 5 minutes ago because a member of my family got it, if anyone is reading this just be safe please
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u/wingerdonger Jan 03 '21
American republicans/conservatives being useless pieces of shit, what's new?
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u/Individual_Crab_3824 Feb 01 '21
You see, it’s stuff like this that really chaps my hide. I’m a nurse, I deal w/PUI (person under investigation) patients & COVID + patients every time I work. If you think of the flip side, when an ignoramus, selfish patient comes through my doors because they think they are infected, they want me to drop everything I am doing & take care of them. Putting myself on the line because they were acting just as the folks are acting in the above clip. I say, they should suffer @ home since they took their everyday life & lives of others to Willy-nilly, selfishly doing their thing. COVID is a virus, I can’t do anything for you anyway. Go home take some APAP, check your temperature & monitor your breathing. When they say ‘short of breath’ that means you can’t finish speaking a full sentence without taking a breath of air. Nashville, shame on you......Done ranting now, carry on!
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u/ShiningConcepts Jan 02 '21
Haha. I like that title.
And to be fair, some of these people may be doing their best to socially distance and have no choice but to be outside because they're working/shopping.
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u/Commentariat1 Jan 02 '21
It was the bomb. It blew the masks right off their faces.
Of course it wasn't, just imagining that some people would literally say that if confronted. "DUDE!!! We got BOMBED!!! We don't need masks now! If we can survive that, we can survive a deadly virus!!!"
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u/firesoftheforges Jan 03 '21 edited Jan 03 '21
A little late, but I really wanted to point something out--and don't believe it's worth a new post, but I'm open to making one if anyone thinks it's worth doing so.
I left a job last year in December. I was already job hunting in November, and actively hunting through spring. Got pretty far in an interview process with one company and then the tornado + COVID hit Williamson. A week later they put on a hiring freeze because it had eked into Davidson, where I live.
I finally got a job again after a year of actively looking, and nearly on the anniversary of leaving the last one! But that's not the point of this post. (EDIT: Noting that the company I'm working for is taking things VERY seriously, I love them so much, and am working remotely. Calling 'em a breath of fresh air is an understatement.)
I interviewed with so many places, and what I found was that most companies in the middle Tennessee area DO NOT CARE ABOUT THIS VIRUS. Not even ones in Davidson. It was RARE to interview with a company that attempted to maintain the six foot distance rule, RARE to interview with anyone who would wear a mask. I wore a mask every damn time, of course. But people seemed to assume that it's "safer" inside closed offices, so they don't wear masks despite the offices being full of people. It's MIND boggling. (Sorry construction company owner, you want me to admin your office, run dispatching, and manage your personal schedule while you play golf for no benefits at $13/hr? I don't think so, not even if there wasn't a pandemic raging around us.)
In addition to being anemic (iron deficient), I am asthmatic. A disease that attacks the respiratory system would WRECK me. My dad is 65, and prone to sinus and respiratory problems. His wife's breast cancer is in remission as of about two years ago, but her platelets are still low. My dad's mom, my Nana, has dementia, is nearly 101 years old, and lives in a home (they used to visit her daily). And finally, one of my brothers is a nurse in a cardiac stepdown unit here in Nashville.
I'm going to remain civil here because all y'all seem to be chill, rule-abiding folk who aren't pants-on-head stupid, but I just needed to express my absolute RAGE at how STUPID locals and tourists are. It's people my age (31) going out being idiots, it's Debbie Sue (random name) who's 55 who just HAS TO HAVE HER HIGHLIGHTS DONE!! ...It's Dave the company manager who has four grown ass adult kids and thinks his employees and clients don't need to wear masks, they cleaned the office, it's fine!!!!!!
It's NOT fine.
My Nana got covid. And thank God, she made it through, it didn't affect her badly, and she's rebounding from it.
I know there are many folk, young and old, who aren't as lucky.
I know there are so many folk from outside Davidson, who are from the holler, who don't care about their health much less the health of other people--and I grew up and am friends with folk from those parts, so no one come at me, because that is a conversation for another time. But I know there are also metro Nashville folk, Williamson county suburb folk, who are being equally reckless and selfish and stupid. We're seeing rural hospitals, already strained BEFORE the pandemic, overflowing, sending patients to nearby counties.
And here we have these people in this video are putzing around like nothing's wrong, like people aren't dying, or being scarred for life with respiratory dysfunction, and sometimes worse.
As I said to a friend of mine earlier tonight, there is a fine line between the rebellious American spirit, and being willfully ignorant to the point of societal disaster. There are so many Americans who would rather spread a LITERAL VIRUS to ~OWN THE LIBS~ or because they literally DO NOT CARE about anyone but themselves. They'd rather wreck our actual economy and contribute to the deaths of hundreds of thousands out of SELFISH SPITE.
Part of me wishes this stuff would only affect the idiots, that maybe some of them might learn a lesson, but that's not how this works. Their recklessness will hurt innocent, thoughtful people too, and I think that's the bit that really grinds my gears and rustles my jimmies the most. If companies, large and small, the people with assets, don't care about the rest of us, what does that tell you about our state, and in fact, our country at large? Nothing good.
I'm sorry y'all. I'm just frustrated and tired. I hope you're staying as safe as you can and I wish y'all love and health.
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u/Bailie91 Jan 02 '21
Such a disgraceful display of Nashville. I've never been more embarrassed to be from this city and it's heartbreaking.
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u/MisterNashville Jan 02 '21
This requires our governor to get his act together
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u/Liam_Neesons_Oscar Jan 02 '21
Not really, he already passed it down saying that cities and counties are allowed to pass mask laws... which Davidson County did.
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u/bonedoc19 Jan 02 '21
How? There is already a county issued mask mandate (that is obviously being ignored). I don’t see how a mandate at the governor level is going to change the mask wearing habits of tourists, who clearly don’t care.
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u/Jminie59 Jan 02 '21
The problem is that the city doesn’t want to enforce this. Long-term recovery and revenue versus short-term dollars is a thing. State-level mandates hold sway over city and county governments, and can force penalties on the cities and counties, as well as on the public.
Lee has 4-day old spaghetti for a spine.
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u/WhiskeyFF Jan 02 '21
4 day old might have toughened up a bit by that point, newly cooked spaghetti is closer to what he has.
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u/Gorudu Jan 02 '21
Serious question, why are you expecting people to wear masks outside? All studies show this is useless. The chances of you transmitting the disease for passing someone on the street is 0.
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u/StarDatAssinum Cleveland Park Jan 02 '21
Source?
Look at how close everyone is next to each other in this video. It might be true that you could avoid wearing masks outside if you were able to maintain a 6+ foot distance, but most people aren’t paying that any mind here.
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u/-_-EdgeLord-_- Jan 03 '21
Take 5 decades of reduced school funding and now those kids are all grown up and don't understand science but they DO understand lift kits, guns, dogs, hunting, and their specific trade.
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u/sunskier Jan 02 '21
I am a mask guy I think it’s an easy way to help out and still be able to live my life. However these people are all consenting adults and can do what they want I don’t believe in regulating peoples every day lives. This being said if you don’t like it then you don’t have to go to Broadway it’s super easy in 2021 to sit at home and have all your needs met. Let people take risks the information is out there to understand the risk your taking and that is your adult decision to make.
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u/StarDatAssinum Cleveland Park Jan 02 '21
Because everyone is able to work at home and avoid people like this, right?
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u/Cantstandja24 Jan 03 '21
Whether you realize it or not your everyday life is regulated by law and order. Maybe you like those laws and don’t care, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is still happening. The bottom line is we all share space as a society. When an action taken puts the well being of others at risk that is often regulated. Are you allowed to drink and drive? Are you allowed to kill because you are mad somebody? Are you allowed to steal from others? Commit fraud? Are you allowed to rape? Sexually assault?
I mean I get it. At this point what is happening will happen. There is nothing I can do but accept it. However, the situation is clearly one in which a debate on how this situation should’ve been handled is more than fair.
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u/crowcawer Old 'ickory Village Jan 03 '21
Hello to r/IdiotsNearlyDying, and welcome to Downtown Nashville!
We have had a crazy few weeks, so if y’all see some wacky folks just kindly give them some space to lay on the floor and have a tantrum like that guy at Costco.