COLLEYVILLE, TEXAS – APRIL 27: A restaurant employee cleans a table at Benny’s Cafe prior to the Texas scheduled reopening of businesses on Friday May 1. Gov. Abbott announced the reopening of retail stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls at 25% capacity beginning on May 1, 2020. (Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images) Texas is one of 9 states to reopen on May 1.    Daily Signal photo.

NJ.COM:    Today, April 30,  the total  coronavirus cases are 118,652, and the virus has killed 7,228 people in our state total.   There were more than  450 new deaths–this is the highest single day increase.

Toll is “more NJ residents dead in pandemic than six wars, Superstorm Sandy, and 9/11 combined.

 Blogfinger:   “So  you can see that we are not out of the woods, and any planned opening needs to happen slowly and carefully, and this terrible disease is still running wild.”

NJ.com:  Gov. will reopen  state and county parks and golf courses on Saturday. He is trusting NJ to “behave in a certain way.”  Social distancing there will continue. He wants residents to wear face coverings while at parks and golf courses, “but the executive order does not require facial protection.”  Parks police will patrol.He will reverse his order if “we don’t like what we see.”  Go to NJ.com for more details.

New Jersey Monthly  (NJmonthly.com):  “Uncertainty swirls around summer shore rentals. Less than a month before Memorial Day, full ramifications of the coronavirus on the 2020 season remain unclear for homeowners, renters and realtors.” Article shows photo of OG.

Ocean Avenue. OG. APP photo by Jim Connolly. 4/30/2020

“Complicating matters is the plethora of separate Shore municipalities, each with their own definitions and restrictions on such matters as short-term rentals.”

“When concrete reopen dates are established, many preexisting rental contracts will need to be reworked. Some renters will want to postpone their vacations until later in the summer. Others might want to apply their deposits to next year, or attempt to get refunds.”

“To a large degree, this summer’s fortune is dependent on when—and how—the beaches are opened. That, too, is likely to vary from town to town.”

“At the shore, preseason influx of vacation homeowners angers locals. Part-timers are defying the governor’s order, to the dismay of many year-round residents.”

“The mayor of Bay Head  is particularly concerned about visitors who go back and forth every weekend. “We don’t know where they’ve been, who they’ve been in contact with,” he says.

“It’s not fair,” says one full-time Bay Head resident who asked not to be named. “They’re bringing their germs down here. Then they’re taking our germs back up with them.”

“Amy Russo, who owns the popular Asbury Park breakfast and lunch spot Toast (it also has locations Montclair and Red Bank), sees the additional off-season traffic as a potential lifeline for some businesses. “To tell people not to come to the Shore—well, that’s why my Asbury Park restaurant location is literally dying,” she says.

Daily Signal Kevin Pham, MD:   “The best-case scenario is that we will have a gradual and deliberate reopening with continued social distancing, and we’ll see a lower spread rate.”

GLEE CAST—–“Our Day Will Come”