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Cook: Nobody’s coming to save Chattanooga during the COVID-19 crisis

Steve Coakley, owner of Ready Set Sew, looks at an embroidering machine that was malfunctioning. / Staff photo by Erin O. Smith
Steve Coakley, owner of Ready Set Sew, looks at an embroidering machine that was malfunctioning. / Staff photo by Erin O. Smith

By David Cook 5 min read

No one is coming to save us.

Not Nashville. Not Washington.

We are on our own.

Want to flatten the curve? Want to save actual lives as well as the economic life of Chattanooga?

We must do it ourselves.