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Poll Results: What are people doing without sports

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In a Bowie News Facebook poll we asked readers how they are spending their time with no sports to watch on television or to play during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We appreciate those who participated. Here is a sampling of the poll responses.
Some people had jokes to tell.
Dillon Steen: I watched the new neighbors out playing catch with each other today….
Ed Jones: I’m watching the birds fight over the bird feeder. The cardinals are leading the blue jays 4-3.
Some are keeping their kids busy.
Janice Kind-Ketcham: We are teaching our three kids life skills. Laundry, yard work, cooking. No screen time until 3:45 p.m., that’s when school would be out. Plus they have one to two hours of school work or reading Monday through Friday.
Some are enjoying a break from the normally fast paced life.
Shea Rutherford: I watched my kids play baseball/sotfball with a stick and a tennis ball in the yard. We are normally traveling four nights a week for private lessons, practices or tournaments. We didn’t have time just to goof around in the backyard and play for fun. Sports are such an investment with paid team dues, cage memberships, paid instructors/lessons, and all the travel. It’s been nice to watch them go out and play their sport the only way they can safely without breaking a window just for fun.
Some are looking for ways to help.
Suzette Pennington Munson: Making mask for Wise Regional and friends who are nurses. Busy hands keep my mind busy and not worrying about the things I cannot control.

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President unveils plan to open up America again

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President Donald Trump on Thursday presented a three-phase plan to reopen America again, but it the decisions on how states proceed with those guidelines will remain with the state governors.
During a lengthy press conference the president called the recommendations, “the next front in our war, which is called opening up America again.” Surrounded by his pandemic task force, Trump explained the strategies will be based on hard, verifiable data and benchmarks must be met at each phase. He continued it is implementable on a statewide or county-by-county basis at the discretion of each state’s governor.
As of Thursday more than 32,000 people had died from Coronavirus in the United States. In addition, more than 22 million people have filed first-time claims for unemployment insurance during the last four weeks as the job market in every sector of the economy has been devastated by the pandemic and the resulting restrictions.
Before implementing any of these guidelines a “gating” criteria must be met by the state or the region. It includes a downward trajectory of documented case within a 14-day period or a downward trajectory of positive tests as a percent of total tests with a 14-day period (flat or increasing volume of tests) as well as hospital preparedness, which includes treating all patients without crisis care and a robust testing program in place for at-risk healthcare workers including emerging antibody testing.
The guidelines, it was reported, represent the “consensus of medical professionals,” including Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus response coordinator; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert and Dr. Stephen Hahn, head of the Food and Drug Administration.

Click on the link below to read the full plan to reopen America.

https://bowienewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/guildine-to-reopen-smaller.pdf

Read the full story on the guidelines and response from Texas Governor Greg Abbott from his Friday news conference in the weekend Bowie News.

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Sunset area virus patient dies late Friday afternoon

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Montague County experienced its first death from the Coronavirus Friday as Dr. Delbert McCaig, county health authority, reported a Sunset area patient died Friday while being treated in Wise County.
McCaig said it was very sad news to report, especially in light of other patients who have now been cleared. The 68-year-old patient was taken by ambulance to Wise Regional on April 15 and died April 17. He added they didn’t even know about it until now, explaining the only address on the state report was a post office box in Sunset.
As of Friday noon the county had seen a total of six positive cases of the virus. All three patients from Nocona are now cleared and no longer contagious along with one in Silver Lakes. One case at Ringgold earlier this week turned out to be a Wichita County resident who has a farm in Ringgold and was moved to that city’s stats.
The case of a Saint Jo patient who tested positive outside the county remains open, said McCaig, as the Department of Health Services has not been able to confirm the Saint Jo case based on the address and phone number presented by the person when they went to Denton Mid-Cities for testing. It will remain open until he is found.
There are two other pending cases where patients have been taken to hospitals in Wichita Falls and Decatur for treatment and awaiting test results.

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One new positive case reported today at Ringgold

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COVID-19 UPDATE – Montague County added one more positive COVID-19 case today as County Health Authority Dr. Delbert McCaig said the case was reported to him this afternoon by state officials and involves a person at Ringgold. This makes a total of six cases, plus one more positive for a patient reportedly at Saint Jo, but state officials have told McCaig they have not been able to confirm the person is at the address listed and the phone number does not respond.

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