Thousands of tourists are in the downtown Nashville bars every night - unknowingly spreading the #COVID19 virus to everyone they come in contact with. While they may be young and healthy, the families they return home to might be young, elderly, or otherwise unhealthy, and have life-impacting, or life-ending, consequences if the virus is transmitted to them.

Metro Charter Section 2.08.080 allows Mayor John Cooper to order the closing of all liquor-serving establishments, or those within a geographic zone, once a civil emergency is declared by the Mayor. We ask that Mayor Cooper immediately take this action - causing a minor inconvenience to the city, in order to save the lives of many. Is that revenue worth your grandparent's lives?