Ferdinand outlines park/facilities usage
The Town of Ferdinand issued a set of general guidelines for the usage of parks and sporting complexes.
General best practices:
- Wear a mask when in public spaces and social distancing cannot be maintained
- Stay at home if you are sick or do not feel well or have a fever
- Stay at home if you have tested positive or await a test result
- Stay at home if you have been identified as a close contact to someone who has tested positive
- Stay at home if you are considered at risk due to an underlying health condition
- Use social distancing and main at least six feet between individuals in all areas of the park.
- Cover coughs and sneezes with a tissue, then throwing the tissue in the trash.
- Wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after going to the bathroom, before eating, and after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
- Use hand sanitizer
- Avoid touching eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
- Drinking fountains will not be made available until after health restrictions are lifted.
18th St Park
- Upper and Lower restrooms will be available
- Upper and Lower shelter houses will be available for gatherings of up to 100 people, with 6 foot social distancing maintained
- Playgrounds will remain closed until further notice
- Basketball court will open
- Volleyball pits will be open
- Horseshoe pits will be open
- Softball field will remain closed, NO organized practices or games will be held before June 14, unless a proper sanitization process is put in place
- Disc golf course remains open
- Walking path remains open
5th St Park
- Shelter house is available for gatherings of up to 100 people, with 6 foot social distancing maintained
- Shelter house restrooms will be open
- Restrooms at softball fields will be CLOSED until further notice
- Restrooms at baseball fields will be CLOSED until further notice
- Ball fields will remain closed, NO organized practices or games will be held before June 14, unless a proper sanitization process is put in place
- Soccer field restrooms will be CLOSED until further notice
- Soccer field will remain closed, NO organized practices or games will be held before June 14, unless a proper sanitization process is put in place
- Football field will remain closed, NO organized practices or games will be held before June 14, unless a proper sanitization process is put in place
- Playgrounds will remain closed until further notice
OLD TOWN LAKE
- Remains closed pending the completion of construction
These last few months people like me have been told to stay home due to our underlying health conditions.
As Indiana and Dubois County began to open up, it was still a guideline.
At this time what I go out for is limited. In my opinion we’re at risk due to the number of people not wearing masks and the possibility of them being asymptomatic.
Patients are required to wear a mask at Memorial Hospital. Are the doctors and nurses required? In my opinion when they walk in the room without a mask they’re putting our life at risk.
To your first three sentences: Yes, and that’s why you and everyone in your and similar situations/conditions should continually self-assess and respond/act accordingly to the what and however much you’re willing to risk – it’s YOUR choice more than that of “other people” or any government guideline, rule or mandate. You/everyone can best protect yourself/themselves by your/their individual choices. The real facts and risks about this virus are out there if one chooses to hear/read and apply them to their lives, over all the hype and fodder of those from the mainstream media. To your last, if any business or entity is “requiring” – not just recommending – a mask and employees are not (wearing them, etc), speak up/out and call them on it right there and then – plus report it to management if not also to the media.