Oh for the days of respectable politics in Ohio!
Posted on 04/16/2020 12:18:30 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - Ohio Governor Mike DeWine said Ohio will begin to open back up on May 1.
“I am an optimist and am confident that Ohioans will also live up to the challenge of doing things differently as we open back up beginning on May 1st,” he said.
DeWine said as the state open backs up, they will continue to monitor where Ohio is in the curve, the amount of PPE that’s available and Ohio’s testing capacity.
“In re-opening any business, it will be essential to provide a safe environment for employees. We cannot have another large spike of COVID-19 cases.,” he said.
DeWine said he wants to talk with superintendents before making a school announcement “early next week” on what the next phase looks like for them.
He asked each industry in the state to put plans together in regard to how they would protect employees and customers when they begin to open up.
In addition, the governor wants essential businesses that have been open to help come up with best practices.
He says the state has to figure out how the safest way possible for businesses, schools, and citizens to emerge from the stay-at-home order
“I’ve felt all along that, as Governor, we have to tell people what we know, when we know it. We will continue to do that. The sad truth is that we’ve won the battle, it appears we’ve flattened the curve, but the monster is still out there," DeWine said.
According to DeWine, major events, such as concerts, sports and fairs, will be the last things to come back from the shutdown.
As of Thursday, Ohio has 8,414 total cases of COVID-19 and 389 deaths.
Ohio Department of Health Director Dr. Amy Acton said face masks will be a big part of our future.
“Do not underestimate the power of donning your face mask,” she said. “The path ahead will consist of several phases and there is a lot of things that you can do to help us continue to flatten the curve, such as great hygiene and wearing a face mask while out in public.”
As of Thursday, Ohio has 8,414 total cases of COVID-19 and 389 deaths.
Gov. DeWine says there is a critical shortage of COVID-19 test kit components, including the swabs used to collect samples and the sterile solution needed to transport the swabs.
The governor says OSU is working with 3D manufacturing companies, including FormLabs, Inc. in Toledo, and academic institutes across the state to manufacture the swabs and swab kits in significant amounts.
The first order of 15,000 3D printed swabs for COVID-19 test kits will be delivered to Ohio State, with a target of 200,000 swabs and swab kits, allowing more people to be tested by the end of April.
May 1st is the earliest date. Always has been. June will have other states open. New York, Michigan and New Jersey will be last.
Michigan won’t be last.
Someone will tar and feather that b***h and toss her ass into Lake Huron long before that.
“does anyone know if there’s another protest at the Statehouse coming up?”
Make it happen! don’t let up!
“Cause we’re from O HI O”
OH!
Mike
Oh for the days of respectable politics in Ohio!
Good for Ohio! I’m happy for them and hope they do alright-—just not the Ohio State Buckeyes.
I hear you!! Same thing in Texas too!! We were supposedly aiming for next week to open shop only to get angry all over again at our STUPID RATS MAYOR changing our date to May 17th..ugh!! Hopefully Abbott will put his foot down on these city RATS!!
I think Dudley Do Nothing in Columbia is still in that position.
If anyone wonders what a socialistic/communistic stranglehold on a society feels like.....this is it. What’s happening in the the US and around the world ought to wake everyone up to what happens when the economic engines of a country come to a grinding halt. Forget global warming, trans rights and all the other pet liberal ideas that have taken hold.
We are stinking into a global depression over a global lockdown that was engineered by a freakish model of death unleashed in London.
I hope the rebound from this destroys the liberal/progressive movement and this ushers in a real revival of understanding of what makes societies strong and vibrant.
I hope so too!
Once the first state opens, the pressure to reopen them all will be irresistible.
Holcomb (Indiana) is Republican, though probably closer to RINO. Like Ohio, Indiana is a very divided state, with most of the Democrat contingencies in the urban areas. Lots of farmers here, so a good bit on the Republican side of things.
Let flyover country lead the way on this.
‘I hope this adds more pressure on my state of PA to also reopen.’
wouldn’t count on anything from this lame duck ignoramus, who just refused to exempt family owned garden centers from his lockdown order, so that these places, having ramped up for spring, are stuck with dead and dying flowers, plants and trees...
That’s 2 MORE WEEKS!! OMG!! DEWIne is a STUPID IDIOT!
I call him Mr Magic too!
Good news is the county title department is opening Monday morning
Of course, all social distancing will be observed. got my mask ready
Meanwhile the cretin governor of Wisconsin has decreed that we are closed until memorial day.
Getting really hate democrats.
Magoo! I hate autocorrect ugh!
I desperately need a haircut and re-opening of LAFitness...so hurry up, DeWhine!
Perhaps. It doesn’t seem to include the things I miss, like choir rehearsal and church. Nor does it appear to include restaurants, and I have a huge milestone birthday coming on June 1st that I wanted to celebrate at a specific restaurant.
Then there is the four day retreat with a leading gospel quartet the first weekend in July.
I haven’t heard anything particularly encouraging.
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