EVERYBODY April 28, 2020 The Our 26th Year of Publishing FREE VS. (979) 849-5407 PLEASE TAKE Weekly © 2020 Bulletin COVID-19 mybulletinnewspaper.com ONE LAKE JACKSON • CLUTE • RICHWOOD • FREEPORT • OYSTER CREEK • ANGLETON • DANBURY • ALVIN • WEST COLUMBIA • BRAZORIA • SWEENY April marks the beginning of sea turtle Has virus been Sea turtle nesting season under way nesting season all along the Texas Gulf Coast, including Brazoria County here longer than beaches, and lasts until the end of Sep- tember. experts say? By John Toth Each year, dozens of turtle nests are The Bulletin sighted on Brazoria County shores as On Thanksgiving Day 2019, I mother sea turtles come ashore to lay was feeling miserable - fever, chills, headache, joint pains, cough, tired- their eggs. Earlier this month, the first ness. Did I have COVID-19? endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle nest That’s what a lot of people who of the season was found at Padre Island. went through the same thing around that time and later are now asking. Once a nest is detected, eggs are har- The answer from the experts: vested by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Ramblings and taken to a hatchery facility, where they are kept until the eggs hatch and are maybe, maybe not. But epidemiolo- released into the Gulf. gists say probably not. Maybe it was its cousin. It’s important for beachgoers, when the I slept the entire day. Advil helped beaches reopen, to keep their eyes peeled a little. I kept my sinuses moistened to be able to breathe without pain. for nests, and to report any findings to My chest felt like a ton of bricks Please see Pages 6-7 for Brazoria County Parks Department news 1-866-TURTLE5. were placed on it. My daughter complained a few days earlier when she was at my house that she didn’t feel good. She Pregnancy and How normal will had the same symptoms, but was Working with ‘Virginian’ star Drury getting over them. It was my turn. pandemic not a By Janice R. Edwards 18, 1934, he spent his child- normal be after A few days later it was my wife, The Bulletin hood between New York and his Sharon’s, turn. James Child Drury, the actor mother’s farm in Oregon. I guess She has had upper respiratory good combination best known for playing the title that’s where he picked up the skills Texas reopens? problems ever since I have known By Stephanie Johnson role in The to become the By Ernie Williamson her. Her breathing rate dropped into The Bulletin Virginian (1962 cowboy with no The Bulletin the 80s, which meant that it was Finally, my third trimester of preg- – 71), rode off Memories are made of this name. My vehicle inspection is due. My time to see the doctor. I went with nancy, and I was even somewhat into the sunset Even though dentist wants to replace a crown. (Continued on Page 11) prepared for when the baby arrives. to join the last round-up April 6, Drury had the lead role in the third And I need a haircut. But because of COVID-19,we had 2020. Born in New York on April longest-running western (behind After more than a month of social INSIDE THIS ISSUE to become prepared again - differ- Gunsmoke and Bonanza) and distancing, my to-do list is grow- ently. had strong ties to Brazoria County ing. So is my anxiety about getting Angleton through being a spokesman for Future mommy diaries Brazoria County Day, a lot of you The View from My Seat mom whose may not know who he was. But for It felt like I had lost all control and chores done during the pandemic. that the virus took over. We entered me, I guess - to borrow some lines RN daughter from a Willie Nelson song - “My Compared to the challenges unchartered waters. I had to figure facing those of you who have lost this out because the baby is not heroes have always been Cow- contracted COVID- boys.” jobs, my problems are trivial. But waiting until the virus goes away. thinking about what in normal times 19 tells of the toll This is a scary time, especially for I grew up a-dreamin’ of bein’ a cowboy would be simple chores made me pregnant mothers. Research I have realize the economic pain caused the virus has taken read state that pregnant women are And lovin’ the cowboy ways, Pursuin’ the life of my high ridin’ by COVID-19 will linger long after considered more at risk for respira- stay-in-place lock-downs end. on both of them tory infections like COVID-19. Those heroes, James Drury in “The Virginian.” (Continued on Page 8) Knowing that Texas ranks next to SEE PAGE 10 (Continued on Page 5) (Continued on Page 11) Page 2 THE BULLETIN April 28, 2020 (979) 849-5407 www.mybulletinnewspaper.com Fascinating weather • One of the more fascinating weather facts: Thunder is produced when lightning “slices” air pressure in the atmosphere. When lightning retracts, the colliding air pressure rushing back together creates the “clap” noise we are familiar with. • Worms can’t get oxygen when the soil is flooded, so they come up from the ground to breathe. • Lightning does strike twice in the same place: If it’s a tall, pointed, and isolated object, then more so. Lightning strikes the Empire State Building around 23 times a year. • Being underneath a tree is the second-leading cause of lightning deaths. It is more advisable to stay indoors during thunderstorms and avoid conductors, such as metals and wires. www.mybulletinnewspaper.com (979) 849-5407 April 28, 2020 THE BULLETIN Page 3 stem cells in hair follicles that are mitter norepinephrine, which in Strange but True converted into pigment-producing turn overactivated the stem cells, missing others’ ideas. Better to be a cells, reports Erin Garcia de Jesus “setting off a flurry of conversion By Bill Sones Supporters say it’s a way to keep an in “Science News” magazine. But into pigment-producing cells. And and Rich Sones, Ph.D. actor’s image relevant for younger “makepeace,” a peacemaker, or one who reconciles persons at odds with since the body cannot replenish that rapidly uses up the stem cell Computer reincarnated dead generations and to allow his estate stem cells, as they are depleted, supply.” Result: gray hair. actors to star in movies, ads to profit when he’s dead. Critics each other. Finally, credit William Shake- color vanishes. Could the stress-related graying Q. Audrey Hepburn was digitally counter that it exploits the dead As the mice experienced sensory process be the same in aging? Stay recreated for a chocolate commer- celebrity for profit-making. “Legally, speare for coining “canker-blos- som” in 1600 in “A Midsummer’s stress due to the capsaicin-related tuned. cial in 2013, as was Bruce Lee in a a person’s rights to control the compound, the stress triggered (Send STRANGE questions to Chinese-language ad for a whiskey commercial use of their name and Night Dream.” Hermia says to Helena: “O me! You juggler! You the mice’s sympathetic nervous brothers Bill and Rich at sbtcol- brand. Now U.S. actor James Dean images beyond their death differ system to release the neurotrans- [email protected]) may star in a movie long after his between and even within countries.” canker-blossom!/ You thief of love! death, writes “New Scientist” maga- Robin Williams, for example, filed What, have you come by night/ And zine. How is this possible? a deed before his death protecting stol’n my love’s heart from him?” A A. “As computer-generated imag- his likeness from being recreated in “canker-blossom,” then, is one who ery (CGI) has become cheaper and CGI until 2039. destroys good things. more sophisticated, the film industry Says Webber: Expect to see Mice with gray hair can now convincingly recreate more digital humans on screen. “It’s Q. As part of a study on how people on screen — even actors happening because it can happen.” stress can make hair go gray, mice who have been dead for decades,” Words for world-lovers were injected with a compound the magazine’s Donna Lu says. Q. Word-lovers, are you up on related to capsaicin, the ingredient Just recently, it was announced that the meaning of these four tosspots: that makes chili peppers hot. Within Dean, who died in 1955, will be rec- “wantwit,” “know-it-all,” “make- five days, their hair had turned reated in a Vietnam War film, using peace” and “canker-blossom”? white. What was likely the cause of CGI based on old footage and pho- A. “Tosspots” are words made the color loss? tographs with another actor voicing up by a verb and a noun, where A. The body’s fight-or-flight him. But, according to Tim Webber the noun is the object of the verb, mechanism, researchers say. Hair at U.K.’s visual effect firm Frame- as, for example, a pickpocket picks gets its color from melanocyte store, there’s always a danger when pockets, says Anu Garg on his you’re doing anything human or “A.Word.A.Day” website. “Repair- humanoid, especially when working man,” though, is not a tosspot, since America’s most with the eyes or mouth, that the a repairman does not repair a man. result is less than perfect. View- A “wantwit,” from Old English “wit” endangered ers may experience the “uncanny (mind), is a fool, or one lacking good valley,” becoming uneasy as their sense, and was first used is 1449.