Posted on 03/11/2020 12:08:28 PM PDT by John W
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday new rules to try to stop the spread of coronavirus, including limiting mass gatherings and restricting the number of visitors to people in nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
"We're in a different chapter of working our way through this," DeWine said. "The essential function of government is to do everything we can to protect people. ... We know it's going to be bad. The question is how bad is it going to be? It is within our hands to determine what that outcome is going to be."
Among the actions DeWine announced: there will be an order forthcoming restricting mass gatherings and nursing home residents will be limited to one guest per day.
That means DeWine's announcement Tuesday – that he was recommending that large events be canceled and that indoor sporting events continue without spectators – will become an order.
DeWine said K-12 schools are remaining open but that at some point, they may have to be closed.
There are now four confirmed positive coronavirus cases in Ohio, along with 24 cases under investigation in Ohio, according to the state. The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a pandemic earlier on Wednesday. The fourth case meets the definition of community spread, said public health director Amy Acton, and an extensive contact investigation is underway.
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How soon until we are told to blackout our windows and cower inside at night?
The play in games for the NCAA tournament take place in Dayton and Cleveland is a site for the rounds of 64 and 32.
The NCAA might move those. We shall see.
I fully expect ohio schools to be closed next week.
I also believe the NCAA tourney is cancelled.
Both of these seemed like insanity a few days ago....now I think it will be fully expected.
Let’s see what DeWine defines a mass gathering as. 10 or more?
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on the NCAA Tournament: “The order will be that there cannot be spectators.” DeWine clarified that there will be media coverage of the events.
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A basketball team, actually 2 basketball teams probably exceeds the mass gathering limit. So.......
How about his news conferences?
If the government can do it, they will to throw their weight around.
No freedom of assembly if there’s an “emergency”.
Or shut down airports due to large crowds?
Or What?
Why are these governors reacting like this?
Sure Italy is collapsing, but we are not Italy, or Europe for that matter. Italy is a mystery...right?
“Why are these governors reacting like this?”
A very good question.
I live in Ohio and have been watching this press conference live. What is different today is the confirmation of a confirmed case of community spread in the Canton, Ohio, area. And in all likelihood there will be more such cases of community spread reported in the next 3-5 days.
This new situation will give Gov. DeWine the justification to issue orders regarding all large gatherings, including pro, college, and HS sports — no spectators. Those orders will come at some point in next 48 hours. [Damn, I had tickets to the NCAA tourney in Cleveland!]
The big picture here is: The CDC and local health officials are assuming that this pandemic will follow the pattern of other pandemics over the past 100 years; that all jurisdictions must do whatever they can to “flatten out” the rate of transmission/ sickness/ death so that local hospitals are not overwhelmed. They are watching the situation in Italy very carefully as an example of what to avoid.
Avoid a poor healthcare system like the government run single payor Italian system which stinks.
They’re politicians!
My daughter is getting married in October. It’s a healthy expense for me as we enter a year of incredible uncertainty.
I can’t help but to feel for all those getting married and wondering what the hell is going to happen to their wedding receptions that have been booked a year in advance over the next 2 months. In fact I feel for all of the conference and meeting centers that are now going to see nothing but tumbleweeds for the next 2 months.
You could spend all day thinking of new ways these actions are going to destroy the economy.
I am in Michigan and work in Ohio. Everything seems normal in Toledo. I was washing my hands longer and spraying doorknobs with Lysol, though.
Michigan has two cases and Whitless declared an emergency. Seriously?
In a large respect, the response of the CDC and other civil officials is based on 1) the patterns of past pandemics and 2) the lack of CLEAR and complete data about the communicability and lethality of this virus. Absent #2, CDC etc. are following the guide book on pandemics, and that means, for example, no large gatherings.
They seem to be aware of, and thus responding to, one specific feature of this virus: that it really, really strikes hard at the elderly. Thus the new regulation in the state of Ohio, announced today, of only one visitor per resident of a nursing home facility at a time.
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