{"id":479044,"date":"2021-05-06T17:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=479044"},"modified":"2021-05-06T17:05:52","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T21:05:52","slug":"tennessee-gop-gov-calls-for-full-capacity-sports-also-wants-concerts-and-parades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-gop-gov-calls-for-full-capacity-sports-also-wants-concerts-and-parades\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee GOP Gov Calls For Full-Capacity Sports, Also Wants Concerts And Parades"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftennessee-gop-gov-calls-for-full-capacity-sports-also-wants-concerts-and-parades%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=479044&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nashville-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.outkick.com\/outkick-podcasts\/\">Outkick<\/a> founder Clay Travis on Wednesday morning that the state of Tennessee should be hosting outdoor sporting events at full capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the interview, Travis noted the names of outdoor stadiums in other states that have been resuming at full capacity, and asked Lee whether he wanted the same for sports in Tennessee, such as for outdoor sports at the University of Tennessee and the University of Memphis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Lee responded, \u201cabsolutely,\u201d saying that any adults who choose to attend packed outdoor sporting events have had the opportunity to be vaccinated or not to be vaccinated since last month. \u201cIt\u2019s now up to individuals to make those kinds of decisions,\u201d said the governor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFrankly, I\u2019m hoping that the Preds play at full-capacity at Bridgestone,\u201d said the governor, suggesting that full-capacity sporting events at indoor venues could also soon be on the table. The governor, toward the end of the interview, noted that \u201csports gives you hope in the middle of an otherwise bleak situation.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After the interview, Lee made his stance on indoor sports even more clear, tweeting: \u201cIt\u2019s time. Indoor and outdoor sporting events should happen without caps on attendance or other arbitrary measures.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.3369565217391\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s time. Indoor and outdoor sporting events should happen without caps on attendance or other arbitrary measures. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0vKWUZOdId\">https:\/\/t.co\/0vKWUZOdId<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gov. Bill Lee (@GovBillLee) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovBillLee\/status\/1389949372444684293?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Lee said some COVID-19 adjustments used to make sense, but now, circumstances have changed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe can\u2019t make decisions based on the fact that someone might get infected. That\u2019s going to be true from here on forward. So we should live life, we should open for business, and we should move ahead with what we\u2019ve got,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Several weeks ago, Lee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/tennessee-republican-governor-strips-mask-mandate-authority-from-health-departments\">lifted local mask mandates across Tennessee<\/a> and declared that the pandemic \u2014 although still affecting some state residents \u2014 was no longer considered a crisis that required government interventions and sweeping public health mandates. His action affected all but the six health departments over which he doesn\u2019t have power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone can get a vaccine today, no appointment necessary,\u201d said Lee. \u201cI got a vaccine. It\u2019s safe, it\u2019s the most effective way to manage our health, and more Tennesseans are doing that every day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Although Nashville hasn\u2019t been as quick to adopt the new changes \u2014 the Democratic mayor announced the same day that all capacity restrictions would expire May 14, but the mask mandate would remain in place for longer <\/span><span>\u2014 Governor Lee told Outkick that Music City feels like itself once again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe\u2019re open, we\u2019d like you to be here. We want to have concerts and conventions and parades and proms, and it\u2019s time,\u201d said the governor. \u201cWe\u2019re in a new season, it\u2019s time to move on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWith vaccine available to every single person in the state \u2014 no waiting lines, you know, can walk up to every health department and get vaccines \u2014 that changes everything. And from my perspective, it means that people have evaluated their risks and they\u2019ve made their own personal decisions based on the risk that they see to them, and the government now needs to get out of the way, because the time for health interventions is over,\u201d said Lee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cmdiie e172hw750\"><b>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/third-gop-gov-moves-to-protect-girls-sports-athletes-to-be-separated-by-biological-sex-not-gender-identity\">Tennessee Gov Moves To Protect Girls Sports: Athletes To Be Separated By Biological Sex, Not Gender Identity<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Lee told Outkick founder Clay Travis on Wednesday morning that the state of Tennessee should be hosting outdoor sporting events at full capacity.During the interview, Travis &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277494,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nashville-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee GOP Gov Calls For Full-Capacity Sports, Also Wants Concerts And Parades","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Nashville-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Tennessee GOP Gov Calls For Full-Capacity Sports, Also Wants Concerts And Parades","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}