Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg TN, have not enacted an official ban on STRs yet, but they have pleaded with both the public and now the tourism business to stop trying to attract visitors to the area.

Play ball or the phone stops ringing.

If they are self employed such as a hair stylist, caterer, landscape consultant all they have is their phones stopped ringing all of a sudden.  

I stopped reading at "life is not going back to normal....possibly ever...."

@Jim Hartmann countless restaurants and retail businesses have stopped paying their rent.

According to a lender poll we just conducted, in the past two weeks about 50% have stopped taking new applications.

We've stopped showings, inspections, and most maintenance on occupied homes.

I have some cash to put down or to build some sweat equity, self manage, do a lot of the cosmetic work myself, and am eager to stop paying rent for good.For context, I inherited a single-family home last fall, tried to sell it but ultimately failed to get a satisfactory price, and just recently rented it for about $550 over the PITI payments.

It may be slowed down but will not be stopped simply by the weather, there are cases now in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa which being in the southern hemisphere are experiencing the warmer seasonal weather. 

If those stop, I'd be making class action noises