/ ListenUpYall.com Mar 15, 2021 6:00 AM NATCHEZ, Miss. – The city a year ago today was thrust into an official state of emergency when then-mayor Darryl Grennell urged Natchez residents to forgo group activities as COVID-19’s global spread reached Mississippi.
“The only way we can reduce and slow the spread of this virus and flatten the curve of the infection rate, and the resulting impact on our health-care system, is by limiting our exposure to one another,” Grennell said in declaring an emergency March 15, 2020.
The Adams County Board of Supervisors followed a day later with a similar declaration that began a series of restrictions to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus. County Emergency Management Director Brad Bradford that day prophetically pointed to the widespread disruption the pandemic will have: “People say it’s going to be rough.”