Keisha Lance Bottoms Talks Reopening Business In Atlanta With Tamron Hall

Tyler Perry is considering reopening the Tyler Perry Studios with certain parameters, which have been reported to include screening employees for fever before entering the production facility and having the cast and crew live on site until the end of the production. Perry also noted he would not move forward with any plan without first discussing with Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms.On Perry’s tentative plan, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms commented, “I think Tamron, we all agree it has to be a phased approach and I’ve not discussed this in detail with Tyler but I think it’s a very different situation if you know that you have a set of people who have not tested positive and they are living in a contained area. But that’s something I would want to get input from our health experts on. We know we are going to have to phase in this economic recovery. So I can even see us opening up dental offices perhaps and medical offices and places where people have access to PPE and know the appropriate way to put it on but when I see pictures of people getting their beards trimmed without a mask on, we know you are putting one another at risk and that’s what this is all about, it’s about not putting each other at risk, especially in a city and in a state where so many people have underlying health conditions that often make this virus deadly.”

Also on Monday’s “Tamron Hall,” Tamron talks to Reverend Dr. William J. Barber, II, about hunger and poverty during this pandemic, as well as baseball legend Cal Ripken Jr. on how he is pitching in to help strike out hunger. Two other guests include a hog farmer who is dreading her farm’s future for the first time in 42 years and a dad using food lines for the first time to feed his family.

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