But Acton, using language as strong as she’s used to date, pleaded with Ohioans to heed the advice of Gov. Mike DeWine and medical experts and to stay home unless absolutely necessary.
“I’ve used the hurricane metaphor before,” she said. “But this is the time to batten down the hatches and stay home.”
Acton stressed that all the data that is emerging from the crisis is incomplete, and everyone has to assume that the virus is more widespread than it appears. “We’re only seeing a snapshot of the past,” she said. “It’s like viewing a star at a distance.”
This is especially true in states like Ohio, she said, where diminished testing supplies mean that only the oldest patients and those with the most severe symptoms are being tested. Even the state’s figures are not necessarily accurate at any given moment. Acton said, for example, that while there are three confirmed deaths statewide, there have been multiple others reported locally that have not yet been fully investigated and confirmed by the state.
Acton took the opportunity to praise the courage and resourcefulness of the state’s hospitals and front-line medical providers and implored Ohioans and the media to do everything in their power to physically distance themselves from others.
“I sometimes feel that I am in a war zone, going to war, and then coming home and not understanding why everyone at home doesn’t see what I see,” she said.
Gov. DeWine, too, leaned on war analogies, quoting Eleanor Roosevelt’s remarks to the Democratic National Convention in 1940, on the eve of the U.S. entry into World War II.
“This is no ordinary time,” Roosevelt said, “no time for weighing anything except what we can best do for the country.”
DeWine said that our actions during this critical moment will determine the outcome for all of Ohio. “What we do today, tomorrow will determine how many of us die,” he said bluntly. “We must act as if we’ve been invaded by an enemy. In truth, we really have been. We cannot do anything to help the enemy. We cannot have any more regular Saturday mornings for a while, just like we can’t have anymore regular Saturday nights.”
Following a number of other statewide closures this week, the governor ordered Saturday that all of the state’s adult day services for people with developmental disabilities would close. Those services will still be provided, he said, but no groupings of more than 10 people will be permitted.
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This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2020.
Batten down the hatches, no more saturday nights, this is the new normal….. over 3 deaths?!
Get in line for your vaccine by the way it comes with a digital imprint.
So the vaccine commenter is a little annoying but Bill gates did step down as CEO of Microsoft this month in order to put his resources into the ID2020 program which will include data chips in mandatory vaccines. It’s true no one will be able to buy anything, drive or get medical care if they do not have the chip showing they have the new vaccination.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I am starting to get afraid about this vaccine they are initiating. What good is taking care of my health only to let these people like Bill Gates and trump destroy my body with their microchip and vaccine.
There’s more too this than just the vaccinations. It is tied to the 5g network (kill grid) and the installation of the new LED street lights. Those who take the vaccine first will be the public servants, police officers. The contents of the vaccine weaken the body to the frequencies in the 5g towers and street lights. They are going after the public servants first because they don’t want to pay them pensions in the new system.
WOW…where aarre you getting all this dope? Can I have a hit, too?
I’m with you dark times,,,these fools are smoking some good shit,,,messing with their heads.
Posted by You get a vaccine and you get a vaccine and you get a vaccine on 03/22/2020 at 12:56 AM
Maybe you or someone close to you will be #4, maybe then you will take this seriously. I hope not, but you need a wake up call.
I saw a video of a guy in Walmart who said he was infected. So then why isnt there a massive outbreak from that walmart or even in that city? They have hundreds of thousands of beds prepared but were all at home, not sick, not spreading anything, but still somehow millions are going to get it? Somethings not making sense here. It’s like they plan on activating the disease.
You can make fun of all this stuff if you like but the info is very easy to find on Google. No dope needed, dope.
You saw a Google video,,,,,well hell it must be true , ,,,.nothing but truth in every Google search,,,,,idiot
These people dont believe videos but they believe mike dewine. They shut down any conversation or information or theories they dont like with condescending insults. For what? Who does it benefit to write what you did Artful Doger or in dark times? You think you’re saving the public from misinformation? You deserve to be injected and be microchipped. You are idiots and need to be controlled.
What information or theories are you referring to? Care to elaborate.
@WHAT DO YOU THINK IS GOING ON THEN?
So you saw a guy in a video in a Walmart who said he was infected? If you believe what he said without any evidence (how do you know he was really infected) then why cant you believe the experts with the evidence? This virus has a 14 day incubation period. During that time they can spread it. Lots of people will be asymptomatic, but still able to spread it. They aren’t sure yet why some are hit by this harder than others. This is probably as bad or worse than the flu. With everyone being exposed and passing it on even if only 1% die the hospitals will be overwhelmed. Listen to Dr Amy Acton and Gov Dewine. They are doing a wonderful job trying to keep Ohioans safe.
Who ya gonna believe? A governor with a 40-year track record in this state or “a guy in a video on Google?” How f’king stupid are you? How f’king stupid do you think the rest of us are?
I pray for this to end so you can come up out of the basement and go back to whatever the hell it was you were doing with your wasted life.
Oh, wait…you were already sitting in the basement and trolling SCENE with wingnut hater rants, weren’t you?
Okay, it’s the all-clear. So come on out, go to a party with your wingnut hater friends in somebody else’s basement. and maybe you’ll catch the fever.
What? You died? Boo f’king hoo…
I’m not going to believe the obviously corrupt, child-like, man who was voted in as governor. I might if he spoke in adult terms instead he sounds like a quarantine cheerleader.
I believe what I see which is a coordinated hysteria meant to control the population via new surveillance, frequency, vaccine, and digital tracking technology.
Why are there workers installing 5g in all the school buildings right now while the kids are out (great timing!) Why is there weaponized frequency technology inside every one of the new LED street lights going up in Cleveland?
You better just stay in mom’s basement, turn off all wifi,,place tin foil over your head,,,you will be ok
Would you paranoid conspiracy morons kindly shut the fuck up aboit martial law, digital ID and forced vaccinations already. For fuck sakes you idiots have been at it for 30 plus years with that bullshit, cut it the fuck out already. Enough is enough with the misinfo, there is no vaccine to force on you dummies and there likely won’t be one for quite a long time. Go buy some toothpaste from Alex Jones to protect your retarded selves so you can die and the rest of us can move on with fixing this mess.
As for DeWine, he’s doing much better than his fellow Republican shit whistlers who are just allowing this thing to spread making it worse for everyone. And as another commenter pointed out, shut the fuck up about your small business nobody gave a fuck about before people were getting sick and dying. Some things are more important than your financials you greedy shit dicks.
Another f’king day at this site…and another f’king day in this sunny, warm. prosperous, growing, thriving paradise. Ain’t life grand?
Now this woman is wearing a doctor coat on TV for creditability. Shes also started waving her hands around while talking like shes running for office.