Memphis Flyer - 3.26.20

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OUR 1622ND ISSUE 03.26.20 I’m writing this on Tuesday, the day Mayor Strickland’s “shelter in place” edict goes into effect. It’s the city’s latest step in trying to “flatten the curve” of the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

Shelter in place means, basically, that we all stay home, or at least avoid other people as much as possible. And if we encounter others, we should keep a six-foot distance. You can take walks or jog, you can work in your yard, you can pick up that guitar that’s been moldering in a case for four years. You name it, homeboy.

And you can read this week’s cover story for all kinds of good ideas on how to pass the time creatively while ensconced in your domicile.

If you do have to go out to a store or to other public venues, it’s a good idea to wear a mask, at least it is according to the information I just got from physician and city councilman Jeff Warren. Warren asked me to tell Flyer readers that if you’re in a high-risk group (a senior or with underlying health issues), if you have a fever or “vague symptoms with an unclear cause,” or if you’ve been exposed to anyone with fever or symptoms, wear a mask of some sort when you go into a public space. Warren said even a bandana or scarf can help reduce exposure to others. So be advised. It sure can’t hurt.

Meanwhile, during his daily press conference — performance art? — on The GOP is betting your Monday evening, President Trump life (or your grandmother’s made it clear that he wanted to end or your diabetic public measures to curtail the spread of COVID-19 as soon as a week from now sister’s) on Trump’s in order to revive the tanking economy. belief that COVID-19 This flies in the face of all legitimate medical thinking and all evidence from will magically disappear other countries who’ve been dealing with

by Easter. this disease.

But we shouldn’t be surprised, really.

It’s just the latest version of the ongoing political sideshow called “science versus ideology.” This variation could also be called “your money or your life,” in which the GOP tries to come up with the ROI for the number of Americans we’re willing to sacrifice in order to fix the stock market. Republican governors in Mississippi, Texas, and Florida, to name three, have all declined to take any significant steps to reduce the public’s exposure. The GOP is betting your life (or your grandmother’s or your diabetic sister’s) on Trump’s belief that COVID-19 will magically disappear

by Easter, despite overwhelming evidence from around the globe that it’s just getting started. Farewell, Dr. Fauci. We hardly knew ye.

On that note, I’ve got some updates from the control tower here at the Flyer. If you’re reading this in the print version, you’ll notice the paper is thinner than usual — 24 pages. That’s because the calendar and After Dark events and music listings are gone, as are the advertisers who support them — and us. There’s no getting around it — like most small businesses right now, the Flyer is taking a huge financial hit.

We are working to adjust a decades-old business model at breakneck speed. This week, because of the many closed businesses, community centers, libraries, etc., we printed a substantially smaller number of papers. We’re out there, but we’re harder to find. Like paper towels. In the interim, I suggest you join us at memphisflyer.com on a regular basis. We post and update numerous stories throughout the day. And every Wednesday we publish an ISSUU version of the print paper that replicates exactly what you see in print, including the ads.

As of this writing, we are still determining what makes sense going forward.

Options include migrating to digital-only for a while, printing every other week, and/or continuing to print a lesser number of papers each week. We’ll keep you informed, regardless of what we decide.

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KROGERING Life’s tough RN and it’s easy to complain. It helps! So that’s just what many were doing on Nextdoor last week, especially about trips to Kroger.

“They don’t have the self-check kiosk open, so you can pay and get out fast!” wrote Roy Haithcock. “You have the pleasure of standing in line with 50 other customers.”

“No disinfectant wipes for the shopping carts,” wrote Mary Kohler.

“You could barely get through the aisles. I had to wait 25 minutes to check out.”

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SAN CTITY O F LI F E Reddit user dropped_the_chief wrote, “To the anti-abortion protesters on Poplar in Midtown: Nothing against y’all or your cause, but please respect the sanctity of life and stop gathering in public until the pandemic is over.”

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Memphis rap icon Project Pat said on Instagram, “Bout to save alotta money wit this RONA.” The accompanying video showed him throwing money at strippers on television.

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W E E K T H AT W A S

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COVID-19, Legislature, & Memphis in May Coronavirus halts legislation and Memphis in May, and cases here continued to rise.

M O N DAY There were two cases of COVID-19 in Shelby County and 52 in the state.

The Tennessee General Assembly moved to pass an amended budget and recess “to focus on an immediate plan of action” for the coronavirus outbreak.

Legislators decided to limit all remaining legislative business to fulfilling the constitutional requirement of passing a balanced budget, and any associated actions that will ensure Tennessee can keep its doors open.

TU ES DAY Three cases of COVID-19 were confirmed in the Clockwise from top left: Tennessee General Assembly, Memphis in May, county and 73 in the state. free wifi, Christ Community Health, Methodist Le Bonheur, 201 Poplar, There was no evidence of drive-thru testing at Tiger Lane, community funds community transmission.

Comcast opened its Xfinity Wifi network to everyone The seven Christ Community Health locations in Memacross the country for free as more people rely on the interphis were added to the state’s list of remote testing sites. net for work, education, and personal health.

An unauthorized sign created “chaos and confusion” Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland issued a declaration of emerat 201 Poplar Thursday, and two members of the Shelby gency, to better facilitate the city’s response to the coronavirus.

County District Attorney General’s office were sent home on coronavirus cautions.

WE D N ES DAY Memphis in May officials announced that its 2020 festival Four cases were confirmed in the county and 98 in the state. events have been halted.

County health officials predicted community spread.

Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris declared a local state of Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare made changes to emergency to allow the county to apply for federal funding its visitation and other policies in light of the COVID-19 to address the COVID-19 pandemic locally. outbreak.

Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland ordered all restaurants Christ Community Health Care Services announced it to provide only curbside or pick-up orders. In addition, the would open a drive-thru COVID-19 testing site over the mayor asked that all bars and gyms close, and for worship weekend to offer 50 free tests. services to be streamed or postponed.

A new fund launched to help respond to the coronavirus outbreak in Shelby County.

F R I DAY The Mid-South COVID-19 Regional Response fund was The number of confirmed cases in the county tripled to seeded with a $250,000 donation from the Nike Foundation. 30 and rose to 228 in the state. Shelby County Schools The fund is a joint effort by the Community Foundation of suspended its meal distribution, after a nutrition service Greater Memphis, City of Memphis, Shelby County govemployee tested positive for COVID-19. ernment, United Way of the Mid-South, and Momentum Nonprofit Partners/Mid-South Philanthropy Network.

TH E W E E K E N D The number of coronavirus cases in the county rose to 66 by TH U R S DAY Sunday afternoon and to 505 in the state.

Ten cases were confirmed in the county and 154 in the state.

Governor Bill Lee signed an executive order mandating The county saw early indicators of community transmission. companies across the state to use alternative business modThe City of Memphis, in collaboration with the Univerels to help stop the spread of coronavirus.

Visit the News Blog at memphisflyer.com for fuller versions of sity of Tennessee Health Sciences Center began preparing a these stories and more local news. drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Tiger Lane.

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Cities prepare to fight coronavirus inside and the elements outside.

March 26-April 1, 2020

Mayors along the Mississippi River are fighting a twofront battle: containing the coronavirus contagion inside and the coming spring flood season outside.

Dozens of mayors from cities up and down the Mississippi River gathered last week in a call with federal agencies to coordinate responses to both.

The Mississippi River Cities & Towns Initiative (MRCTI) issued a report this month that said flooding cost 11 Mississippi-adjacent states $6.2 billion last year.

Expecting and preparing for such damage has become an annual event for mayors, who watched another major storm system further deluge their cities last week.

Flooding is expected this year, according to the most recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), but not as much as last year.

Ongoing rainfall, highly saturated soil, and the likelihood for above-normal precipitation this spring will contribute to the increased chances for flooding across the central and southeastern United States, according to NOAA’s spring flooding outlook. A risk of minor flooding exists across one-third of the country, the report said.

The greatest risk for major and moderate flood conditions includes the upper and middle Mississippi River basins, the Missouri River basin, and the Red River of the North. Moderate flooding is expected in the Ohio, Cumberland, Tennessee, and Missouri River basins, and the lower Mississippi River basin and its tributaries.

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somewhere in the United States, and widespread flooding is in the forecast for many states in the months ahead,” said Ed Clark, director of NOAA’s National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

NOAA predicts higher-than-normal levels of rain this spring, warmer-thannormal temperatures, and drought conditions to persist for Western states like California and Texas. Scientists said extreme weather events like these are made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to a report Flooding is expected at near-record levels this spring, published last year in the Bulletin of the especially along the Mississippi River.

American Meteorological Society (BAMS).

Government officials everywhere will battle all of these Some of the response includes keeping first responders, elements while also battling the coronavirus pandemic. volunteers, and residents safe. Much of this includes extra steps to ensure they’re safe from contagion in response Along the Mississippi River, that has meant staying in to disasters. close contact with federal agencies.

“We are working closely with our state emergency “Our mayors have been in close communication and management agencies, public health departments, FEMA, coordination with [Federal Emergency Management the Corps of Engineers, and the Red Cross to make sure Agency], the Corps of Engineers, [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration], and the [United our first responder teams have the personal protective States Geological Survey],” said Bob Gallagher, mayor gear they need and we can limit exposure to residents we of Bettendorf, Iowa. “The good news is all our federal interact with that may need assistance,” said Rick Eberlin, partners are ready to deliver as much mission critical mayor of Grafton, Illinois. “Also, our smaller towns response as we would typically rely on even during depend on volunteers for disaster response, and thus we are developing protocols to limit contagion.” this pandemic.”

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For the first time during its regular public meeting on Monday, the Shelby County Commission went on full remote — meaning that the 13 commissioners, along with Mayor Lee Harris and other administration officials, made their presences known singly and via purely audio-visual means — each from his or her own computer, wherever it was located. Some participants were at the county’s Emergency Management and Homeland Security Center at the Shelby County east campus at Mullins Station. Others were at home or in their individual workspaces.

All things considered, things went smoothly — though that happy outcome was partly due to the relative lack of controversy in this week’s agenda.

Perhaps the closest thing to a bona fide dispute arose when Commissioner Willie Brooks introduced an add-on item conferring a grant of $109,995 on the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Memphis at Craigmont High School. Budget chair Eddie Jones and Commissioner Edmund Ford, who maintains a skeptical eye on any expenditures relevant to school issues, nixed that one.

Then and at several other points in the meeting there were pointed references by various commissioners to an expected shortfall in future revenues resulting from the various contractions on the local economy due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

The main points decided on Monday were resolutions committing the commission to continue meeting electronically through at least the month of May. Among other actions, that included a resolution “in support of legislation to amend the Open Meetings Act to authorize local governments, and instrumentalities thereof, the ability to conduct their business meetings by electronic medium.”

The uniformity and sweeping applicability of that one to other local jurisdictions was consistent with the respective announcements on Monday

by Mayor Harris, Memphis Mayor Jim Strickland, and the mayors of Shelby County’s other municipalities of “stayat-home” orders that discourage any meetings not deemed “essential” and effectively limit public gatherings to no more than 10 people.

Meanwhile, the Memphis City Council was scheduled to follow the county commission’s lead in holding its own regular meeting this week by remote electronic means essentially similar to those adopted for the commission meeting, with each of the council members in effect broadcasting to their colleagues and to the public from their own space.

• Even as local governments keep buzzing along via electronic means, the state legislature has taken a hiatus, opting to call a recess last week instead of formally adjourning, and thereby maintaining at least the prospect of returning to work after a target date of June 1st.

Left hanging were such unresolved issues as open-carry gun legislation favored by GOP Governor Bill Lee, the “fetal heartbeat” measure and other anti-abortion measures, a revived effort to make the Bible the official book of Tennessee, and a long-deferred measure to expand the status and medical wherewithal of nurse practitioners.

Things went smoothly — though that was partly due to the relative lack of controversy.

What the lawmakers did succeed in doing was to adopt an ad hoc spending plan, reduced by some $90 million from preliminary budget estimates as a result of the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The resultant financial squeeze caused a still-simmering dispute between the governor and various legislators over what to do with $40 million in funds allocated for the first year of Lee’s private school-voucher program, slated for Shelby and Davidson Counties.

Considerable bipartisan resentment persists among opponents of vouchers, who saw the measure eke out a one-vote approval in the state House last year, achieved through some questionable sleight-of-hand on the part of thenSpeaker Glen Casada. Later deposed by the House Republican caucus, Casada has been replaced this year by new Speaker Cameron Sexton, a voucher foe.

Those legislators who aren’t enamored of vouchers would prefer to see the $40 million, or some component of it, rerouted to follow through on teacher raises promised by the governor in his January State-of-the-State address and now in danger of being scuttled.

V I E W P O I N T B y Fr a n k M u r t a u g h

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Pivot Points

Watergate changed everything between American government and the media, and thus it changed the way the world interpreted the U.S. mission, the grand experiment of democracy (in the form of a republic). I learned about U.S. presidents with Richard Nixon’s resignation as the floor for standards. Eight presidents had died in office (four of them assassinated), but only Nixon’s forced departure exposed our country’s highest office to be one in which misbehavior would be held

accountable. The Oval Office is no throne, and a president’s decisions — to say nothing of his or her actions — must adhere to the larger mission of this country … or things fracture.

Witness the current presidency.

I was a junior in college when the Berlin Wall crumbled, the literal destruction starting in the fall of 1989.

I’ve always credited West Germany as much as Ronald Reagan or Mikhail Gorbachev for the fall of communism.

The allure of choices, freedom, even luxury are too strong in the human psyche for a communist state to survive.

Russia and China today are fascist states using a communist playbook.

Communism is as dead as Norma Bates.

The fourth pivot point in my lifetime was the concerted terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The United States — the idea, as much as the geographic region — became a target, and one susceptible to largescale violence. No trenches to dig, no conventional bombs necessary. Those determined to kill in the name of a higher calling (however defined) live among us. Air travel will never feel as comfortable as it did on September 10, 2001. And “making the world safe against terrorism” has become somewhat of an oxymoron.

Which brings us to 2020, a year that may be remembered for other happenings, but will be known for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, the pandemic that brought the concept of human extinction way too close to our front doorstep. Surely we’ll find a way to prevail as a species, but how significantly will our “herd” be thinned? How will “normal” be defined if we return to a version, any version? The most human act of compassion — a hug — may now be considered … dangerous? It’s too much to consider, at least now with social distancing part of our world’s cure.

We are living a pivot point, the fifth of my lifetime. We’ll remember it, however many days we have left.

Be smart, be safe. Be both patient and determined. Most importantly, empathize. When the world changes, we all change together.

Frank Murtaugh is the managing editor of Memphis magazine.

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World-changing events are rare, to say the least. But when we experience them — when we live them — the world-changing nature of the event is overwhelming. I count four of these events over my 51 years, “game changers” that took place before the current pandemic that has, indeed, altered our world. I’ve found myself measuring what’s to come by, in part, reflecting on how mankind reacted to the other pivot points of my lifetime.

I barely arrived in time for the Apollo 11 moon landing (July 24, 1969). But I grew up in a world — on a planet — that was merely part of something larger, and reachable by mankind. My parents shared children’s books about astronauts. The textbooks I read included Neil Armstrong among history’s most famous Americans.

When the first Space Shuttle took flight (in 1981), the news entered my young mind, but didn’t force me to pause from that afternoon’s baseball practice.

Humans fly in outer space. It’s what we do. When the Challenger exploded (in 1986), it sure as hell made me pause.

Because the “custom” of space flight is never easy, never entirely safe, no matter how normal it might feel.

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HIT THE TRAIL He was muddin’ — soupy slop oozing beneath his speckled treads — but there wasn’t a truck in sight. He was muddin’ in the middle of Overton Park, in sneakers.

One of those days last week (didn’t they kinda run together?) the Old Forest Trail was deluged but wide open, as most everything else was closing down. Dog walkers, mountain bikers, families, and that muddin’ trail-runner guy shared the many paths with plenty of room to stay at least six feet apart.

The outdoors is a refuge. It’s an escape from problems mundane, profane, and profound. Our current situation certainly fits into the profound category, and it makes the outdoors even more important.

Overton Park has closed some facilities — the restrooms, Overton Bark, and playgrounds.

Keeping them open would have encouraged people to gather, a no-no these days. But the miles of trails in Shelby County remain

wide open (for now, at least). And it’s out there in the fresh air that you can leave the virus blues behind you.

You’ve seen the guy: head down, glossy eyes glued to his phone, walking straight on the sidewalk, heading into traffic.

You can’t do that on a trail, not for long, anyway. Roots will trip you up. Gum balls will roll your ankles. Mud will slip-slide you into the, well, mud. Your mind has to focus on the trail ahead of you. It pushes survival to the front of the brain and pushes other stuff (ahem, coronavirus) to the back. But this is the basic stuff.

There’s magic out there. Vines hang from above in the massive canopy of trees that has swayed there since before Memphis was Memphis. The land gently swells and dips. The woods are like psychic caffeine, especially for urbanites.

Your mind races to find the straight lines and right angles, to hammer some organization into it all. But nature doesn’t cotton to such.

It’s the wild, after all.

Stay out there long enough and that wild will rub off on you.

Or maybe it’ll reveal the wild in you. And maybe that’s the magic.

All of it — the survival, the magic, whatever — will de-program your brain, re-prioritize your mental list somehow. But there are guidelines for hiking in these troubled times. The National Recreation and Park Association says to stay off the trails if you’re sick. If you do go, though, wash your

hands before and carry hand sanitizer.

Keep away (six feet) from others. Alert other hikers of your presence on the trail (if they don’t see you) and step off trails to let them pass. Don’t rely on public facilities.

Bring your own water and time your trip so you don’t have to use restrooms, if possible. — Toby Sells Shelby Farms Park — 4,500 acres, 40 miles of trails; Overton Park’s Old Forest — 142 acres, four miles of trails; MeemanShelby Forest State Park — 12,539 acres, 20 miles of trails LOVE IN THE TIME OF CORONA What could be more romantic than a quarantine? The streets are empty and the rain beats against the windows as you gaze at your lover over a tall glass of hand sanitizer. … Or not?

One thing is for sure — since coronavirus is quite contagious and kissing is the most efficient way of spreading it — spring 2020 is not shaping up to be a good time for people using dating apps. “I travel for work already, so my dating life is already weird,” says Ashley Caldwell, who works as a consultant organizer for progressive organizations. “It’s mostly just been amusing the ways people are working around the quarantine issue.”

One gentleman caller suggested that they co-quarantine together. “We’ve been talking for a few days,” Caldwell says, but she had never met him in person. “He had an hourly breakdown for how much time we’d devote to work and how much time we’d devote to … being together.”

Maybe the single folks and those in the early stages of a relationship can relearn the seemingly lost art of romantic letter-writing?

“I could see this creating a lot of babies

in nine months for people who don’t have kids, but as a mom who has two kids she’s with 24/7, it’s more of a birth control issue than anything else,” says Christina Mokarski with a laugh.

Erika Ward agrees.

“24/7 kid time equals no snu-snu,” Ward says, referencing the Futurama word for doing the dirty. “It’s mostly that we’re in a smallish house with our kids, [ages] 3 and 5, with no real breaks. By the time they’re asleep, we’re exhausted and pass out on the couch.”

Board games might be a good idea right about now. Settlers of Catan, Risk, and Monopoly are all famously long.

If there’s one thing everyone has in abundance these days, it’s time — just don’t let a dispute over Boardwalk property send you around the bend. — Jesse Davis STAY IN SHAPE Local Zumba instructor David Quarles has begun leading virtual Zumba classes from his home. Quarles says it’s important for people to find a balance and practice self care through fitness during these times.

“I’d say while being bombarded by news update after news update of not essentially the most delightful stories surrounding the new pandemic, coupled with many of us maybe dealing with

shorter time periods. He says setting a reminder to get up and move every 90 minutes is a good way to keep the body and mind healthy. “Literally just move and have fun,” Meadow says. “In a time when it’s easy to look around and say ‘this sucks,’ that’s important. Focus on breathing.

Practice basic exercises like jumping jacks, squats, situps, and pushups.”

For free at-home workout classes taught by local instructors, check the YMCA, Kroc Center, or OrangeTheory Fitness websites. — Maya Smith HOW TO GET YOUR FILM FIX Minutes after the Flyer shipped to the printer last week, Malco Theatres, which is based in Memphis, announced they were closing all of their 33 movie theaters in six states. “The health and safety of our guests and employees is of the highest importance,” said David Tashie, President and COO. “We will continue closely monitoring the situation and, when given clearance, be ready to resume normal operations.”

Malco was left with no choice. Not only were they under pressure from local authorities concerned about the potential for community transmission, but studios both major and minor have pushed back new releases, in some cases by more than a year. While it was inevitable — and undoubtedly the right thing to do — the news came as a shock to Memphis film fans.

Earlier in the week, Malco had announced they were opening the Summer Drive-In seven days a week.

A drive-in movie seems ideal for social distancing — you still get the feeling of being in an audience, while staying a safe distance from your fellow cinephile. But Malco’s total shutdown includes the drivein. For some cinephiles, it was the first time the seriousness of the situation set in. Malco VP and director of

marketing Karen Melton urged Memphians to buy gift cards to use when the theaters reopened and to support local businesses affected by the pandemic emergency.

The crossroads now for movie lovers in Memphis is Black Lodge, the venerable video store that re-opened in 2019. Owner Matthew Martin says Black Lodge will stay open as long as possible to serve people who are stuck at home during the soft quarantine. “As responsible business owners, we must recognize the seriousness of COVID-19, and we must do our part in protecting the health and safety of our customers and friends, who have supported us for so long,” Martin says.

On March 16th, Black Lodge shut down for two days to deep-clean the entire facility. Since the cleaning, no one but staff has been allowed in the building. Movie rentals are now a curbside service. Racks with new releases, popular selections, and most importantly, kids’ movies, have been moved to front, where they are visible for window shopping. If you see something you like, a Lodger will retrieve it for you. If you’re not sure, the knowledgeable staffers can talk to you about your tastes and recommend something you’ll like.

A membership to Black Lodge costs $10 a month and includes access to the one of the largest video libraries in the United States, with well over 20,000 titles available. That’s at least four times larger than Netflix’s selection and includes rarities not available online for any price. During the pandemic emergency, Lodge is running a special membership offer: access to children’s movies for $5 a month, to help entertain kids stuck at home.

“For the past 20 years, Black Lodge has been proud to be part of the incredible arts community of Memphis,” says Martin.

“We would like to thank everyone who has and continues to support us. We strive to offer entertainment and what little slices of distraction we can during such tumultuous times.”

— Chris McCoy DIGITAL BOOK CLUB As of press time, many local bookstores and comic book stores are offering to deliver or mail purchases. (Check their websites for the most up-to-date information.)

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the anxiety of the unknown, we need to maintain as much balance and positivity as possible.”

Quarles adds that because it’s so close to the beginning of the year, many people’s newly minted commitment to working out has been upended. “Many people just came to terms with their new fitness routines in gyms and were seriously motivated,” Quarles says. “So they need an outlet as well to make sure they stay on track and reach their goals they initially set out to accomplish.”

Quarles’ online Zumba classes are offered on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at varying times.

Classes are $5. Check his Facebook page for more information.

Brooks Meadow, owner of Recess901, has also moved the gym’s fitness classes online. Meadow says the goal is not just to lead members through a workout, but also to provide members with a virtual social outlet.

“It’s not just that people can’t go to the gym anymore, but all of a sudden people’s entire daily routine is flipped upside down,” Meadow says. “We intend to provide connection and social nourishment at a time when it’s about to evaporate rapidly.

We are in the business of habit changing and social nourishment, while making it as simple, as stress free, and as fun possible. We were doing that in the gym; now we do that online.”

Meadow says the most challenging part about getting motivated to work out at home is changing habits and breaking the sedentary patterns that most people have at home. “We leave our home to go to the gym because that’s where that habit has been established,” he says.

“But that’s not really able to happen right now. So how can we change to make that an at-home habit?”

For those working out at home, Meadow says the easiest place to start is “doing what you know.

So if calisthenics is your thing, take 20 minutes every now and then for a movement break,” Meadow says. “There are an infinite amount of workouts you can do at home. You don’t have to be a fitness enthusiast or have high knowledge to move your body.”

Meadow also suggests working out more frequently throughout the day for

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“We’ve never encountered anything like this, and our responses are evolving with each new revelation,” says Eddie Burton, general manager of Novel bookstore (and before that, Booksellers at Laurelwood).

“We find ourselves in the same boat as every other independent book store and small business — we’re trying to serve our customers while keeping our staff safe (and paid).” While Burton acknowledges that in-store browsing is a big part of the bookstore appeal, he says, “We’re urging our customers to use our website, take advantage of our delivery service, and we’re offering curbside pickup, which has been a popular option so far.

“Libro has made the decision to close, and we are rescheduling all in-store events,” Burton adds. The Novel book club has moved to online meetings, as has the popular children’s sing-a-long series Story Time with Miss Marjorie.

“Every morning, we come in and clean,” says Shannon Merritt of 901 Comics. “But we are also offering curbside pick-up and delivery.” Merritt says some of the comic book industry news underlines the severity of the pandemic. “[Comics distributor] Diamond let us release titles a day early. Some of the publishers are making all the comics, if they don’t sell, returnable. Image is urging the bigger publishers to do the same thing.”

“We’re still coming in every day,” says Ron Crum, owner of Comics & Collectibles. “Worst case scenario, we’ll just deliver ’em,” Crum adds. “The only way I won’t be here — well, knock on wood that I don’t get sick — is if they just tell us to stay home.” Two Rivers Bookstore, though set to close for good, is offering $7 delivery in an attempt to pay off their remaining bills and rent.

“To place an order, send a direct message to Two Rivers Bookstore on Facebook or Instagram,” says owner Heather Cee. “We’re watching it every day to see what we need to do,” says Cheryl

Mesler, co-owner of Burke’s Book Store, who made the decision on Sunday to temporarily suspend in-store business.

Burke’s is offering curbside pick-up, delivery within Midtown (or nearby areas), and is ramping up the online sales portion of the store. “Just ask.

If we can get to you, we will,” she adds. “Our staff is really a priority for us,” Mesler says. “Keeping the staff employed and paid.” — JD VISIT A MUSEUM ONLINE Worried about getting some culture during the ’rona crisis? Fear not. Many of our local attractions can be simulated via virtual tours of museums and parks and through live-streams of regional zoo and aquarium exhibits.

Many of the virtual museum and park tour experiences we found utilize Google Street View’s 360° view, and these experiences can be maximized with any Google-approved VR set like Google Cardboard, Mattel View-Master, and Zeiss’ VR One. To access these 360-degree views, search for a museum or park in Google Maps, and under Photos, look for an album listed “360° View.” Searching for museums and parks that have this option can take a while, so we did the legwork.

Some museums have full walkthrough experiences, while others have a few 360° panoramas of certain parts of the building.

The museums we found with full virtual walk-throughs: Fire Museum of Memphis, Stax Museum of American Soul Music, and The Cotton Museum at the Memphis Cotton Exchange. Dixon Gallery & Garden has an extensive virtual walk-through of its gardens, and Sun Studio is somewhat walkable.

Museums with 360° panoramic views: National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis Rock ‘n’ Soul Museum, Memphis Botanic Garden, and Mississippi River Museum.

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list. Two parks that have virtual walkthrough capabilities on Google Maps are Overton Park Conservancy and Shelby Farms Park.

For more of a live experience, Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga offers three different live-streams of its penguins, river otters, and reef dwellers that include sharks, reef fish, and a green sea turtle. You can also rent films from the aquarium’s IMAX 3D theater.

The Memphis Zoo has started offering virtual inside looks of the zoo with Virtual Wild Encounters, Zoo Dude, and Zoo News. To make it a group experience, view these live streams from Facebook where you have the option of hosting a Watch Party with socially distanced friends and family.

Speaking of watch parties, friends missing movie nights with their friends no longer have to miss out. As long as the whole crew has a computer with Google Chrome installed, they can download a Netflix extension called Netflix Party, which allows synchronized playback and group chat. It’ll be just like hangin’ with your pals.

Got a crew full of board gamers?

Aside from the classics that can be played through Facebook Messenger like Words with Friends and Draw Something, we found a couple of unique and obscure cross-platform board games that can be played with friends virtually: Mysterium, a murder-solving game involving ghosts and psychics, and Tokaido, a simple and relaxing game that allows players to venture around Japan. — Julia Baker JUST CHILL THE F**K OUT “Regardless of why it happened, the fact remains that human sleep is strange compared to our closest living relatives,” writes Melissa Hogenboom in a 2016 paper for BBC Earth. And what’s strange about human sleep patterns when compared to other mammals? We all need R.E.M. sleep, but — with the notable exceptions of animals like giraffes and horses — most mammals sleep a hell of a lot more than we humans do. Some scientists say that’s due to the better sleep we get — unlike most apes, who make nests in trees, we don’t have to worry about dying because we fell out of bed in the middle of the night.

So use this opportunity to take a nap.

Sure, now is a great time to practice a second language, hone your skill with haikus, or to learn the mixolydian modular scale like you always promised your jazz-savvy guitarist friends you would. But if adding to your to-do list only deepens your sense of dread, well, I hereby give you permission to just chill the f**k out.

Seriously. Has there ever been a better time to sit and do absolutely nothing?

My only caveat would be to try to avoid unnecessary screen time. Watch your pets as they watch the world outside the

windows. Count your breathing — hey, turns out if you do that, you’re already halfway to meditating!

It’s okay if you don’t come out the other side of this thing with a new screenplay, novel, or an album’s worth of songs. If working is how you manage stress, don’t let me stop you. But now is not the time for self-imposed pressure to produce to turn you into the coronavirus quarantine version of The Shining’s Jack Torrance. If you must do something, consider pulling weeds — hey, the spring equinox just rolled around with little fanfare — or listening to a whole album, from start to finish, with your eyes closed. There are plenty of Memphis musicians who could use the streaming numbers right now. — JD SONGS FOR SHUT-INS Sometimes a three-minute song is all it takes to change your day, especially when you’re cut off from the world. You can celebrate your time away from the rat race, like the Kinks in “Waterloo Sunset” or Warren Zevon in “Splendid Isolation.”

And couples in quarantine can be a fun thing, as we know from Paul and Linda McCartney’s “Eat At Home,” Elvis Presley’s “Baby Let’s Play House,” or Chet Baker’s “Let’s Get Lost.” When Bob Dylan and the Band (or the Byrds) sang “You Ain’t Going Nowhere,” they tapped into the happier side of being homebodies together.

But it’s not all bread and milk and roses, this stay-at-home existence. The Kinks’ “Sitting on My Sofa” rocks, but it’s not exactly jumping for joy. Neither is John Lennon’s “Isolation,” “Four Cornered Room” by War, “Black Night” by Charles Brown, or “Me and My Clock” by Carla Thomas. Country music is good for wallowing in the darkness — you might as well own it and put on “Hello Walls” by Faron Young, “Rubber Room” by Porter Wagoner, or “Flowers on the Wall” by the Statler Brothers.

Other songs celebrate social distancing. “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” by the Police has taken on a new meaning, as has Richard Thompson’s “Keep Your Distance,” the Beatles’ “Don’t Bother Me,” and rapper Flipp Dinero’s “Leave Me Alone.” But are there songs about good hygiene? Prince Buster’s “Wash Wash” (really his take on “That Lucky Old Sun”) is good for that, and Charlie Rich’s “I Washed My Hands in Muddy Water” provides a good counterexample. Don’t try this at home, kids!

Finally, once the wallowing is over, one listen to Nina Simone’s “Ain’t Got No, I Got Life” will help you climb out of the pit in four minutes’ time. Then, take it to the sunny ’70s for some uplift: “Ooh Child” by the Five Stairsteps will have you opening the curtains and sunning yourself, contemplating a better tomorrow. “Some day,” they sing, “We’ll walk in the rays of a beautiful sun. Some day when the world is much brighter.” — Alex Greene

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Future-Everything, a Memphis-based “for artist, by artist” multimedia label and lifestyle brand that collaborates with more than 50 EDM artists and multi-instrumentalists from around the world, debuted its first live “QuaranStream” episode on YouTube last Wednesday.

The episode was hosted by Future-Everything co-founder Micah McGee, otherwise known by his DJ name Strooly, previewing the label’s unreleased material, like the upcoming Night Park EP that drops April 3rd, masters from the forthcoming HeartWerk EP, and unheard demos from collaborators Qemist and DJ DanceAlone.

“It was so awesome to get to preview out all this unreleased music we have coming out in the next few months,” says McGee. “There’s no other way we could feel comfortable doing that.”

Future-Everything has experimented with streaming live content in the past, McGee having produced a live podcast series in the infancy stages of the label’s founding in 2014. Due to technical difficulties, however, the label steered its focus toward live events. But with the recent changes in events surrounding the global pandemic, Future-Everything was encouraged to revisit the idea of live streams.

“I think considering how quickly I pieced the setup together, it went great,” says McGee. “It was the first one I’ve done like that, so there were some great learnings to come from it.”

McGee hopes that through the live streams, his collaborators can continue to make a living while aiding growth in the musical community.

“If there’s anything that we can do to help keep our artists connected, and maybe even help supplement some income through these efforts in the near future, then we are going to do everything we can in the meantime to help get us closer to that,” he says.

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Social Dis-Dancing Social Dis-Dancing Club on Facebook, available 24/7, free Local dance instructor Louisa Koeppel aims to keep people up and moving. Members are encouraged to share videos of made-up dance phrases, routines they’ve known (like the Macarena), or imitations of dance moves seen in viral videos.

Memfamous Comics Available at tapas.io/ rabideyemovement, 24/7, free Tattoo and comic book artist Tony Max offers his collection, including his newest work The Crimson Hand, for free online perusal.

Strange Adventures No. 1 Available at comixology.com, $4.99 Social distancing got you stir crazy? Need some space? How about a space adventure by the Eisner Award-winning team of Tom King and Mitch Gerads (with the addition of Evan “Doc” Shaner)? Following space explorer Adam Strange, who’s celebrating the release of his memoir Strange Adventures, the series explores whether or not Strange’s memoir is one of space heroics or colonial conquest. The first issue was released this month.

Virtual Tour of Rocky Mountain National Park Available at earth.google.com, 24/7, free Anyone wary of traveling in times like these can rest assured that they can at least simulate the outdoors during a virtual tour of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado on Google Earth. Here, users will be able to look down on the scenic mountain range from Longs Peak, forgo a challenging hike and jump straight to Chasm Lake, or view lava cliffs from the Lava Cliff Overlook.

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mily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven seems to be one of those prescient works of art that, somehow, predicts the current moment — or at least the worst possible version of it. A global pandemic — a fictionalized version of the H1N1 flu — is the backdrop for Mandel’s fourth novel.

The book follows the Traveling Symphony, a group of actors, artists, and musicians who travel the Great Lakes Region dispensing both entertainment and news to scattered towns made isolated by the collapse of modern infrastructure. Station Eleven is not the average plague novel, and one should hesitate to classify it as such. Rather, Mandel’s work, in Station Eleven and elsewhere, is best characterized by its rapturous fascination with those quiet, often-overlooked moments in which character is determined and lives are shaped. The same is true for her newest novel, The Glass Hotel (Knopf), which has the unbelievable bad luck of being released in the first months of an actual global pandemic.

With The Glass Hotel, Mandel again proves her ability to shift between points of view and to disguise thoughtful character studies in the garb of actiondriven drama, this time that of a mystery novel.

The Glass Hotel, though, is no typical beach-read whodunnit. Its narrative is unmoored in time, drifting between crucial turning points in the last 20 years, as it patiently reveals its tale of money, greed, guilt, and delusion.

Mandel’s characters swim into focus as the novel leapfrogs from year to year, giving the reader a bird’s-eye view of their worst mistakes and redeeming moments.

Vincent is the bartender-turned-trophywife who, eventually, finds herself a chef onboard a cruise ship. Her sudden disappearance from the ship, in December 2018, makes up the first chapter of the novel — and sets a tone of inevitable doom, implacable and irresistible, an iceberg spotted too late looming up out of the darkness. Somehow, the reader gathers, her disappearance is related to the many mistakes of her half-brother Paul and the spectacular collapse of her husband Jonathan Alkaitis’ once-lucrative

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Ponzi scheme. Mandel’s characters are always possessed of a complex and thrilling inner life — and they are often on the run, haunted by their mistakes and secrets.

“You know what I’ve learned about money? I was trying to figure out why my life felt more or less the same in Singapore as it did in London, and that’s when I realized that money is its own country,” says Mirella, Vincent’s lone friend, a fellow refugee from the world without money.

Mandel’s characters, in conversation, preoccupy themselves with musings about parallel worlds and alternate universes, a hint at the motifs Mandel uses to explore those moments that hold the power to alter a life’s course irrevocably.

Identity and delusion have roles to play in the novel, too. Vincent finds herself playing a part even as Jonathan hides the true nature of his work from her. Both Paul and Vincent are completely convinced that their sibling has a better handle on life than they do. And they both find themselves victims of circumstances beyond their control, damaged by the fallout from the drama of their parents’ doomed relationships.

“You don’t have to be an entirely terrible person, we told ourselves later, to turn a blind eye to certain things,” the narrator muses in hindsight, contemplating the mistakes made as Jonathan’s business collapses. Everyone, the novel seems to say, is living out some contingency plan, fleeing trauma.

If Station Eleven, with the Traveling Symphony’s motto of “survival is insufficient,” paints a hopeful picture of society’s rebirth from its own ashes, then The Glass Hotel is a reminder of the kindling that fed the flame — and the detritus of a selfish society that, if rebirth is to occur, must be left in the past.

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I’m writing an introduction to an old book by Sir Richard Burton — no, not the actor who married Elizabeth Taylor twice — the explorer. He was known at Oxford as “Ruffian Dick,” which lends nothing to my point, but I thought that you should know. When Burton left his native England to make himself obvious in Africa, he knew that he’d be exposed to diseases for which his pasty white behind had no natural defense. While his system was being “seasoned” (a euphemism for getting some far-flung virus and not dying from it) he warded off the crud with … brandy. And lots of it. Later this would be refined into the gin and tonic.

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what was in the water. Harvard’s dining hall once only served beer for the same reason. A practice they had to stop because, well, you know how undergraduates get.

My system has been mildly seasoned, but it’s nothing I picked up in Latin America or North Africa. I got zapped smack in the middle of ZIP 38111 when I built a swing set for Littlebit and was eaten alive by mosquitoes and contracted West Nile Virus. It sucked.

Fever, cold sweats, and everything ached. Literally everything. I’m not sure how it manifests in women, but it felt like someone had stepped on my cods in a work boot. Sure, I lost 15 pounds, but I was assured at the time that it wasn’t in a good way. For all that, the doctor told me that, being in my mid-30s at the time and relatively healthy, nothing but my social calendar was in any real danger.

More annoyingly, West Nile, which practically has to be injected into the system to do its thing, has not remotely seasoned me against the current airborne COVID-19 dread. Like everyone else, I’m social distancing, even if, with the house full of teleworkers and students, it doesn’t feel very distant.

The CDC will tell you that the only thing that G&T and beer actually cure is sobriety.

And that’s true enough. Still, it got me wondering — could we inoculate ourselves and save the local economy by drinking loads of Old Dominick Gin and going curbside with growlers of Wiseacre on Broad, Memphis Made in Midtown, High Cotton in Downtown, Ghost River on South Main, Crosstown in, well, Crosstown, and Meddlesome in the far east? Is it time to rally?

You’re damn right it is! We’ve hit the spot where the economy is about to crumble under the weight of, if not the coronavirus, certainly the fear of it.

The megastores and the national outfits have the fat to weather the storm. Local businesses don’t. We really are all in this together, so raise a drink that’s locally sourced, even if we keep our distance.

The upshot is that if you’ve ever wanted to try the fabled three-martini lunch of our ancestors, this is the time.

Why not? You aren’t going anywhere.

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Although it’s starting to feel like summer. The charming Mrs. M. works for a school that has temporarily gone online, and the good people at Sewanee have shuttered the fortified mountain compound — so we’re all on top of each other. There are three people in my formerly isolated, book-lined fortress of solitude. I love them dearly, you understand, but it’s hardly the “social distance” for which the CDC is calling.

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hose of us who are not doctors, nurses, or EMTs or others on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 are faced with some time on our hands. The only silver lining to the situation is that our new reality of soft quarantine comes just as streaming video services are proliferating. There are many choices, but which ones are right for you? Here’s a rundown on the major streaming services and a recommendation of something good to watch on each channel.

Netflix When the DVD-by-mail service started pivoting to streaming video in 2012, it set the template for the revolution that followed. Once, Netflix had almost everything, but recently they have concentrated on spending billions creating original programming that ranges from the excellent, like Roma, to the not-so excellent.

Cost: Prices range from $8.99/month for SD video on one screen, to $15.99/month, which gets you 4K video on up to four screens simultaneously.

What to Watch: Memphian Craig Brewer’s 2019 film Dolemite Is My Name is the perfect example of what Netflix is doing right. Eddie Murphy stars as Rudy Ray Moore, the chitlin’ circuit comedian who reinvented himself as the kung-fu kicking, super pimp Dolemite and became

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YouTube The granddaddy of them all. There was crude streaming video on the web before 2005, but YouTube was the first company to perfect the technology and capture the popular imagination. More than 500 hours of new video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.

Cost: Free with ads. YouTube Premium costs $11.99/ month for ad-free viewing and the YouTube Music app.

What to Watch: The variety of content available on YouTube is unfathomable. Basically, if you can film it, it’s on there somewhere. If I have to recommend one video out of the billions available, it’s a 6:47 clip of Stevie Wonder

playing “Superstition” on Sesame Street. In 1973, a 22-year-old Wonder took time to drop in on the PBS kids’ show. He and his band of road-hard Motown gunslingers delivered one of the most intense live music performances ever captured on film to an audience of slack-jawed kids. It’s possibly the most lifeaffirming thing on the internet.

Stevie Wonder plays “Superstition” on Sesame Street. an independent film legend. From the screenplay by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski to Wesley Snipes as a drunken director, everyone is at the top of their game.

Hulu Founded as a joint venture by a mixture of old-guard media businesses and dot coms to compete with Netflix, Hulu is now controlled by Disney, thanks to their 2019 purchase of Fox. It features a mix of movies and shows that don’t quite fit under the family-friendly Disney banner. The streamer’s secret weapon is Hulu with Live TV. Cost: $5.99/month for shows with commercials, $11.99 for no commercials; Hulu with Live TV, $54.99/month.

What to Watch: Hulu doesn’t make as many originals as Netflix, but they knocked it out of the park with Future Man. Josh Futturman (Josh Hutcherson) is a nerd who works as a janitor at a biotech company by day and spends his nights mastering a video game called Biotic Wars. A

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Cost: Included with the $99/year Amazon Prime membership.

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THE LAST WORD by Maya Smith

In times of turmoil, we can stand together — six feet apart.

So far, 2020 has played out like a bad movie, one that’s far too dramatic. I keep thinking we’ve hit the climax and we’re rounding third to a happy resolution, but unfortunately that hasn’t happened — and likely will not happen for a while. This is going to be a long-ass movie.

We might as well hunker down and get ready.

To be honest, when I first heard of the new coronavirus, I wasn’t too concerned. It sounded pretty serious, but it was a disease on the other side of the world. Then in January, the first case was identified in the United States and that warranted a bit more concern.

Still, it was 2,000 miles away, and I didn’t consider the impact it would have.

I didn’t imagine COVID-19 would find its way to every state in the country in just two months. I didn’t imagine that thousands of people in this country would fall prey to this disease, that it would affect old, middle-aged, and young people, that hospitals would be overworked and scarce on resources, that cities would put residents on lockdown, or that essentially our lives would be halted and flipped upside down.

When the first case of the disease was confirmed in Shelby County, it got real for me, as I’m sure it got real for you, too. It got to the point where I could no longer ignore the fact that this outbreak is a big deal and it will change the way we live — at least for a while.

I didn’t want to accept the new normal of social distancing — working from home, not going to restaurants or bars, no movies, and the hardest piece for me: no gym. But these are small sacrifices we can make as a community to reduce the spread of this illness in our city.

More than ever, now is the time to stick together and be of one accord. Though we are apart (six feet, y’all), we are in this together. Thank you to the medical professionals who have been steering the ship at local hospitals. Thank you to the grocery store clerks and the guy from Mulan who brought food to my car over the weekend. Thank you to the janitors cleaning hospitals and other public places. Thank you to the small businesses for changing up their operations to accommodate the community. Thank you to all the brave people who are on the front lines of the pandemic.

But even if we aren’t the ones on the front line, we still have a role to play in stopping the spread of this virus in Memphis and keeping the city afloat. We have to support each other. Buy local.

Order local food and drinks to-go. (And tip!) Check on your elderly neighbors. Stop hogging toilet paper. Be nice to the folks checking you out at the grocery store. Support local musicians, artists, and performers. If you’re sick, stay home.

Elected officials also have a part to play, and I hope they will do what is right by the thousands of folks currently incarcerated in Shelby County. Jails are cesspools, and precautions need to be taken to protect the health of inmates. Because they matter. I hope that law enforcement limits the number of people it locks up over minor offenses during this time.

Finally, with people losing jobs left and right, there should be a halt on all evictions. People are living paycheck to paycheck, and without an income, they just can’t afford to pay rent.

That’s not their fault, and they should not be punished for circumstances well-beyond their control. Leaders need to step up and fight for the most vulnerable during this time.

We have already seen that in the way organizations in the city have come forward to find alternative ways to feed Shelby County Schools kids. We know that it is possible to pull together as a community and figure out solutions to daunting problems.

This is a big city with the heart of a small town. Let’s keep sticking together. No one really knows what the future will hold.

These are scary times, for sure. But fear will not overcome us, and we will prevail. We must fight fear with faith. Whatever you have faith in — a higher power, science, Mother Earth — cling to it and don’t be discouraged. Because one day, this bad movie will end, the credits will roll, and life will again return to normal.

Maya Smith is a Flyer staff writer.

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