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- Good afternoon, this is
Brigadier General, David Trybula,

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coming to you from headquarters,

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White Sands Missile Range,
on Tuesday, 12 May 2020,

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with our COVID-19 update.

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To the numbers, the State of New Mexico

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is reporting 5,212
positive cases of COVID,

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including 1,111 in the
County Cibola Albuquerque,

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112 in Santa Fe, 49 in Socorro,

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245 in Dona Ana, and 9 in Otero.

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El Paso is reporting 1,348 cases

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and Juarez 532.

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As I told you yesterday and
we've talked in the past

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we continually review
what opportunities we have

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and what the current conditions are

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and so today we are
reopening the dog parks

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with the understanding that
social distancing still needs

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to be practiced

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and need to make sure that
you're being cautious,

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of you and your family

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in any interactions in that limited space,

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lots of room to be able to social distance

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but I would ask you to be vigilant

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and not take that the human tendency

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and congregates especially
as the benches are there

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which makes it easier if you look in

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this is to be within social distancing,

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closer than six feet as you
should stay away from that.

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Along those lines is we've
opened up outdoor rec

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and making sure that we're
vigilant in how we're doing that,

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I wanna make sure that
I'm managing expectations.

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We're doing this based
on current conditions

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and the assessment of what we can do

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to mitigate any potential risk.

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There is a natural tendency
to think as we're getting more

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and more things open,

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and Texas and New Mexico are
opening more and more things

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that we are going to
continue in that direction

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and we are prepared to continue
to go in that direction

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but we're also prepared to go backwards

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with tighter restrictions
based on conditions

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as they change.

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And so I want folks to have in their mind

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that based on conditions we
could see things go either way

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and I wanna make sure that
you're thinking through that

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so that regardless of
which way events take us,

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you're prepared for that
both physically and mentally,

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and really important in
terms of that mental health

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and making sure you're ready for that.

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Again I wanna thank you
for being our first line

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in defense practicing good
personal hygiene for you

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and your family, appropriate
social distancing

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and we look forward to coming back

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to you tomorrow afternoon.

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Thank you.