The order is the strictest yet in Ohio’s incremental efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and it makes official the recommendations that DeWine and Dr. Acton have been imploring Ohioans to take seriously for days.
DeWine said that “common sense” exceptions have been included in the state order, so people will still be permitted to leave their homes for groceries, carry-out meals, medical supplies and other essentials. People are permitted, indeed encouraged, to go outside for physical exercise (though not at public playgrounds) and are allowed to tend to family members, friends, and pets who may be in other homes and in need of care.
Essential businesses that remain open must adhere to health and safety protocols, including social distancing (at least six feet between workers) and regular cleaning. DeWine repeated that these protocols will now be part of an order, “not a suggestion,” and that they can be enforced by both local health departments and law enforcement.
What DeWine calls the “stay at home” order has, in other states, been referred to as “Shelter in Place.” California, New York and Illinois, along with New Jersey, Connecticut and Louisiana, have now all instituted versions of the same mandate. Ohio’s will go into effect Monday at 11:59 p.m. and is currently scheduled to last until April 6. That date is of course subject to change.
DeWine also made an announcement about the state’s daycare facilities. Starting Thursday, daycares will only be allowed to operate with a temporary pandemic childcare license. Facilities will be limited to a maximum of six children per classroom, what DeWine called a “dramatic” but necessary shift.
“We have not faced an enemy like we are facing today in 102 years,” the governor said. “We are certainly at war. I don’t know any other way to describe this. In a time of war, we have to make sacrifices.”
Acton, too, continued to uncork wartime rhetoric, but said she had never been more hopeful that Ohioans would pull through the current pandemic.
“Today is the final order,” she said. “It’s absolutely essential that we don’t do this in a piecemeal way. There’s no time left. Listen to what Italy is telling us. Today is the day… This is not a joke. This is not a drill.”
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ohio rose to 351 Sunday, including 125 in Cuyahoga County (the highest number among the state’s 88 counties), with 83 hospitalizations and three confirmed deaths. DeWine and Acton both reiterated that the current data does not tell the full story of the Coronavirus in Ohio.
“Even the data you’ll see in the future is minimal because we are conserving all our available testing for the most high-risk and hospitalized front line workers,” DeWine wrote on social media shortly before the press conference.
You can read the full order below.
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This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2020.
Read the last paragraph quote from dewine stating that they will never share the actual data with us. How can we trust these people?? They are obviously lying.
Nah, you’re still a wingnut. Not for guessing that they were going to do what every expert in the world recommends and every government in the world has been doing, based on hundreds of years of history on pandemic prevention… Anyone could have called that. But because you don’t attribute it to pandemic prevention.
Next you will panic when the national guard starts roaming the streets delivering food to at-risk people. 😛
Martial law? That means military rule superseded civilian government. Pretty serious step. Usually only taken following very serious civil unrest, rioting, looting, armed conflict, etc. Patrols on the streets with arrest powers oruse of deadly force. Unless people get crazy and there are zombies walking around, looting and killing…I highly doubt it will happen.
The military in our communities? They’re already, here, doofus…at hunger centers and doing other essential tasks .
Forced vaccines? With digital imprints? Tinfoil hat paranoia from your posterior orifice. You need to step away from the keyboard and lie down. You are sick, you are sick, you are sick, sick, sick..
Good luck to all,,,stay healthy
I like his press conference where he gave so much information like ,”we can do this”, “we’re buckeyes”, “we can do this ohio”, and his girl is like “batten down the hstches” “today is the day” I talked to a scientist so flatten the curve”.
Wtf is this bs? They expect us to believe them and get vaccines with this kind of information?
Shut your mouth go away,
Why do you deliberately mislead people with your retardery? It’s literally on Forbes magazine that bill gates is pushing for this. Do you live right next to a 5g tower or something?
Someone’s scared,,,,national guard,,,martial law,,,,,then again the kids are home from school so we should expect this drivel
You will never run out of toilet paper…not if you have Forbes on hand.
And if the National Guard gets weird, what about those 300 million guns in Civilan hands that all you supremicist militia types keep bragging about?
If the Army is called out, that’s another story, but it would take more than this mess to bring that about. There would have to be a complete breakdown of civil law, total anarchy and a state of insurrection. Civil War Version 2.0 maybe? Naaaah…Northern Ireland on steroids. We’ll see who’s right…and who’s left. But not until maybe May or June.
There is no lockdown. What a reversal in policy. Take a look at the list of “essential ” personnel. It is a joke. If your employer wants you there, you are back at work.
I am 100% commission so I would work anyway. But do not say it is for our safety. It is for Ohio’s economy, not Ohioan’s safety. You may as well lift the psuedo lockdown and get on with it. You are going to accelerate the spread. That is, if what you’ve been preaching for the last two weeks is true.
Never liked you DeWine. You succumbed to the lobbyist pressures. Weak!
The military is here to get idiots like you,,,lol
Wingnut sickos plus huge gun sales plus pandemic? Deep, deep shit.
Hope the handful of old people we save can pitch in when we all emerge to an economy in ruins. These morons everyone applauds have never run a business in their lives.
Your business means nothing compared to health and safety of the majority in the community. Stop worrying about yourself and try to think of others. @ the its all about me club,,,,,,,
The shutdown is not quite what I thought it to be. It seems in my industry, businesses are looking for anything they can claim to be called an essential business so they can stay open. Instead of looking to help stop the spread, they are more worried about their bank accounts. Perhaps there needs to be tighter regulations as to what is called an essential business and what is not. Even Family Video is staying open, is this essential entertainment? If the government was doing all it could to stop the spread, then it would have stricter guidelines for business to follow.
Sorry but DeWine is doing a hell of a lot better of a job at this than his fellow Republican freedumb loving moronic Governor constituents who are doing nothing and allowing this thing to spread thus making it worse for everyone just so hillbilly Jim the NWO nutcase doesn’t get his panties in a twist about things that aren’t going to happen, like martial law, or things that don’t exist, like a vaccine to be forced on you in the first place. Just stop it already with the paranoid nonsense. Go buy some toothpaste from Alex Jones and defy all preventative measures so you can die and the rest of us can move on with getting this fixed.
And please, for the love of god, shut up about your small business that nobody but you gave a rats ass about before people were getting sick and dying. Some things, namely people’s lives, are more important.
So abortion clinics are closed but gun shops are open. Welcome to “Ah-hi-ah”where religious nuts want to run everyone’s lives.
Guns are essential now…and the way things are going, they will be even more essential in the near future. Pandemic, looting, zombie plagues, depression, and finally civil war.
I just hope there are enough guns and ammo and healthy individuals available then, so the fascist hordes can finally be defeated and a newer and better America arises on the ashes of the old.
Thanks for all the fish, Orange Julius, and thanks to all the shortsighted sheeple who foolishly voted us into this catastrophe, and the ones yet to come. Thanks, asshats, thanks. I really mean it.