Posted on 04/14/2020 1:48:42 PM PDT by abb
A large crowd of at least 100 protesters gathered Monday outside the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, demanding Gov. Mike DeWine end a statewide stay-at-home order meant to curb the spread of the coronavirus, according to reports.
Meanwhile, DeWine -- a Republican -- is also facing pressure from several GOP lawmakers in the Ohio General Assembly to reopen the economy to relieve jobless Ohioans, even if some social distancing measures must continue in the coming months, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
“We need to get the economy open, even if that means social distancing of some sort for months to come,” Sen. Andrew Brenner, a Republican representing the state's 19th District, wrote in a Facebook post. “We can’t stay like this much longer, and the hundreds of thousands of Ohioans who’ve lost their jobs or the thousands of small business owners can’t keep doing this either, or their lives will be irreparably destroyed.”
“Many of the earliest predictions were based on what we now know to be flawed data models,” state Rep. Todd Smith, R-Germantown, wrote in a letter to the governor. “We now have actual data that has shown the effect of the virus to be much less than anticipated.”
“Here in my district and across the state, our small business owners are being crushed under the current restrictions. They do not think it necessary to destroy their businesses and the state economy for the actual effect they are seeing due to the virus.”
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Tremor in Ohio?
What do you call a large crowd of at least 100 protesters? A beginning.
OH-10 is what we use to call that state. Great people, great food and crappy government officials
Excellent. From what I’ve read, people are protesting in Michigan, North Carolina and Ohio already. Let’s see which state will be the next domino.
This unelected so called doctor is taking our rights away by using inaccurate models and ignoring the real data. DeWine is one and done, everyone is ticked off except for the demorats and their sheepeople.
Herr DeWine comments?
This may need to start happening everywhere. Protests and civil disobedience against our the politicians who now imagine themselves our overlords.
I think protests could be done “social-distancing” style with individuals 6 feet apart, all carrying large signs and filling large spaces or streets outside public buildings.
And in Michigan tomorrow, in their cars:
Protesters to ‘gridlock’ streets around Capitol to protest Whitmer’s stay-home order
Tin soldiers and Acton coming
They’re finally on their own
This day I heard the drumming
They need to look-up this Dr. Amy and move the protest to her front lawn.
OHIO PING!
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Large gathering of Ohio protesters demand DeWine end social distancing, reopen economy
04/14/2020 1:48:42 PM PDT · by abb · 7 replies
Fox News ^ | April 14, 2020 | Danielle Wallace
Natives are getting restless. We go along with rules as long as they make sense and not one minute more. If the incubation period is 2 weeks and we’ve been shut down 4 weeks that’s enough.
I’m glad to hear more talk in the media, about the cost/benefit analysis which is going on, regarding keeping the economy shut down.
We can’t just all stay home indefinitely, to fight this virus. Decisions have to be made.
In a world where fighting a disease is the only consideration, we would all stay home for 18 months, to flatten the curve and wait for a vaccine to be developed. But we don’t live in that world.
The peasants are revolting!
At least it’s a Republican governor. The rat govs have every reason to keep this county locked down, jobless and (if possible) in bread lines for another 200 days.
202 for ye precisians. ;)
Smaller than your average crowd waiting for Wal-Mart to open.
Lockdown protests begin to materialize as America’s patience over stay-at-home orders wane
April 14, 2020 | Tom Tillison
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