Tennessee’s 2020 pandemic shutdowns sparked a new bill that would protect all jobs in that state from being labeled “non-essential” in future emergencies. With lawsuits to hold officials accountable, it’s a bold move against what one lawmaker calls overreach. Lisa Fletcher explores the lessons driving this change.
The following is a transcript of a report from “Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson.”
Watch the video by clicking the link at the end of the page.
In late 2019, Danny Muniz opened the barbershop he’d always dreamed of.
It was just 20 minutes from downtown Nashville, and business was picking up, until COVID hit, and the governor’s lockdown orders forced non-essential businesses, like barber shops, to close to help stop the virus from spreading.
Danny Muniz: We just had opened the barbershop six months prior to that. They shut us down and we was out of work.
In Tennessee that spring, nearly 2000 small businesses closed. Nationally, some 20 million jobs were lost.
During COVID, the federal government offered guidelines on “essential critical infrastructure” workers, but it was up to states to determine for themselves which workers were most needed.
For Tennessee, Republican state lawmaker Monty Fritts, declaring any worker ‘non essential’ is government over-reach.
Rep. Monty Fritts: I thought that we miserably failed in lots of places in America in the pandemic. We declared human beings non-essential based on their lawful occupations.
The bill Fritts is proposing would prevent businesses and individuals from being deemed “non-essential” and forced to cease operations during an emergency declaration.
Rep. Monty Fritts: I do have a huge problem with the word itself, the whole non-essential. I think that becomes the point at which someone who is elected looks down at the people who elected him or her and says to them, you are less important than I am.
Fritts introduced the bill last January and it’s still moving through both chambers. Business owners like Danny Muniz are watching closely and say no one’s livelihood should be at risk during a national crisis.
Danny Muniz: It wasn’t fair. How you going to tell me I can’t run my business and I can’t do my services?
And while the pandemic may have closed businesses, it opened a new debate about who gets to decide what’s essential.
For Full Measure, I’m Lisa Fletcher in Nashville, Tennessee.
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P.S.
What to make of this report, of
growing hatred among women
for men ( for fathers ) ?
https://rumble.com/v78qx6e-young-women-are-far-more-likely-to-hate-young-men-than-the-other-way-around.html?mref=1t8q76&mc=5gu6n
Communist Jews, embedded in Liberal/Liberal/Leftist
organizations, have engineered that hatred by various
means, including books, magazines, TV ads, plays and
Hollywood movies.
What to call the phenomenon that –
for an example – depicts white men as
bumbling idiots in all TV ads; and
caused feminists in the U.S. State
Department to tell teachers across
America’s to stop calling on boys in
classrooms, who were “TOO Quick”
to raise a hand and answer the
teacher’s question ( 60 years of
showing white men in TV ads as
DOLTS; and from the 1980s, our
teachers STOPPED calling on
boys ) ?
How about calling it what has driven MAN-HATING
RADICAL Feminism these past many decades :
The Communist-Jew-Driven Lilith Syndrome ?
Benjamin Franklin had attended a meeting with George
Washington, who spoke of his deep concern for protecting
the colonies from an “impenetration of Jews.”
The devil hides HER nature by presenting disguised
as MALE, I suspect. I might be wrong about that.
Again, good civilizations die from the BAD influences of the
Aways-Provocation-Driven Entertainment Class—Actors/
Actresses are trained to be PERFECT L-I-A-R-S, to be able to
make audiences forget where they are and that they are
watching a PLAY of ACTORS ( Rock music, similarly, seduces
us away from REALITY using savage drumbeats ).
-Rick
Sharyl,
Regarding the dearth of posts on your
Pages ( you used
to get a couple of
dozen per article ) :
“Tolerance and Apathy
are the Last
Virtues of a
Dying Civilization. -Aristotle
( thanks, Dr. Malone )
-Rick
Lisa,
Sharyl
—and Full Measure Team :
Re : “. . . pandemic shutdowns sparked . . .”
It’s your word-choice, but “SCAMDEMIC”would clarify
what had actually happened. Millions unnecessarily
passed/died/transitioned. Vaccine schedules for babies
are TOXIC !. Profit drives the push to fight increased
testing and to reduce the number of vaccines per visit.
No one is being held to account for that deadly,
on-purpose test of the use of FEAR to CONTROL
the masses—WORLDWIDE.
It’s not unlike Libertine Liberals’ use of TOLERANCE to
effect step-wise social-engineering, and destroy the Founders’/
Framers’ high-culture civilization—for socialism/communism :
“Tolerance”—at what point is it to be opposed ?
https://sharylattkisson.com/2025/09/poll-majority-say-they-are-less-likely-to-visit-cracker-barrel/#comment-192110
Liberalism is a mental disease,
hatched in the limbic brain,
which craves mayhem and
sexual orgies and escapism.
‘Feminism and Invading Migrants Destoyed Europe,’ by Paul Craig Roberts :
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/paul-craig-roberts/feminism-and-immigrant-invaders-destroyed-europe/
Why France is in Steep Decline :
T O L E R A N C E .
https://www.independentsentinel.com/france-has-fallen-watch-bolsheviks-march-through-paris/
-Rick