Credit: The Ohio Channel

Gov. Mike DeWine announced Wednesday that he has deployed the National Guard to Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati to help prepare for a surge in COVID-19 cases, expected by medical experts to hit Ohio near the end of April or beginning of May.

To prepare for anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 new cases of COVID-19 per day, DeWine said that officials had separated the state into three hospital regions — Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati-Dayton — and that locations were being scouted in each region to build excess capacity.

Right now, DeWine said, space in hospitals is temporarily increasing because of the cancellation of elective procedures. But DeWine and the Department of Health have been anticipating a need for additional capacity when the biggest wave of positive cases and the associated hospital stays arrive.

Teams from the National Guard are now working with local engineers and hospitals to plan build-outs. Wednesday afternoon, teams were assessing the possibility of using both the Columbus Convention Center and the Duke Energy Center in Cincinnati to expand hospital capacity in those regions.

In Cleveland, both the Huntington Convention Center and the IX Center have been floated as potential “field hospital” sites for overflow capacity. DeWine mentioned that unused college dorm rooms, hotel rooms and unoccupied medical offices may also be conscripted for use.

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28 replies on “Mike DeWine Dispatching National Guard to Cleveland, Columbus Cincinnati to Prepare for COVID-19 Surge”

  1. The 5g trucks are out. Mastec contractors is installing the 5g.

    Everyone is at home. Why are they expecting a surge of extreme cases?

    As was said, yes the military will be deployed into the community. Wait until they start going door to door checking for Corona exposure..

  2. I told you the lockdown was coming. You said I was a conspiracy theorist.

    I told you the national guard would be deployed. You told me to smoke more dope because I was paranoid.

    I am telling you we are being set up. This is a coordinated attack on us all.
    Next comes door to door check ups, then food shortages, then relying on them for food, then the vaccine in order to get food, then the digital implant vaccine certificate. You will be surveilled everywhere. If you make it through whatever they have planned to fill all those hospital beds.

  3. We have a whole lot of unemployed people in the area. Why do we need to bring in these military guys to set up beds? Why cant local labor do it?

  4. Does it make you feel better to think you’re arguing with a “Lone Wingnut” because I assure he is not alone in his skepticism here.

  5. It makes me sick, that’s what it does.

    Sickened and disgusted to see one obsessed asshole spamming and flooding this site, day after day after day, and week after week and month after month with his far-right, Red Menace, and GOP rants, and his crackpot conspiray theories, even as short-handed SCENE staffers try to keep this place alive, and even as loyal longtime readers( the few who bother anymore) cringe and shake their heads in anger and disgust.

    In normal times, his toxic waste would be cleaned up by the janitorial staff, but SCENE is overwhelmed these days. And how do I know it’s only one clown, and not a thousand clowns? Same M.O. every time…a concentrated barrage of bullshit in a short time, like an artillery attack. The time stamps never lie, even though the Lone Wingnut always does.

  6. If you’re sick grizz, dont worry, we got a vaccine for that. Order now and the boys in camo will deliver it right to your door. Act now and you can get the infamous ID2020 digital vaccine certificate imprinted right into your forehead.

    Name one thing the scene troll wingnut has been wrong about since you obviously follow his work.

  7. WTF is this “grizz” you keep babbling about?
    Name one thing Lone Wingnut has been correct about so far.
    And , no, calling SCENE a Commie rag won’t get you off the hook.
    You’ll have to do better than that, dipshit. Go ahead. ONE thing.

  8. OMG THE NATIONAL GUARD!THEY’RE COMING FOR ALL OF US! THEY’RE BRINGING DA 5G AND DA FORCED VACCINES DOOR TO DOOR! PRETTY SOON THEY’LL BE ROUNDING US ALL UP FOR DA FEMA CAMPS! HURR DURR DE DERP DE DERP DE TEEDLY TUM!

    Shut the fuck up morons. We aren’t the first state to have the National Guard deployed to help out during this crisis. Guess what? Nobody’s getting chipped or forced to take non existent vaccines or any of the stupid shit you morons keep saying is coming. I’m sorry but guessing that there was going to be a lockdown and that the “military” (It’s the National fucking Guard. OH SHIT they’re coming with food and bottled water! Get yer guns ready!!) would be deployed doesn’t make you the amazing fucking Kreskin of conspiracy bullshit, many people have been saying that was going to happen for a long time. You are not a prophet, you are a cunt.

    The National Guard gets deployed into disaster areas all the fucking time, happened during Katrina and many other disasters. It doesn’t mean they’re coming to jab a needle into your neck, or mushroom stamp your forehead or confiscate your weapons or any other dumbass, lame brained conspiracy claptrap that you can come up with.

    Seriously please, please give it a fucking rest already. Even if you were right, which you definitely aren’t, what possible fucking good does constantly posting your idiotic musings in the SCENE comments section do? Do you think your little river of dumbassery on the SCENE comment section means a fucking thing compared to the Niagra fucking Falls that is paranoid conspiracy rants on the internet itself? Do you think your tiny spark of stupid comments is going to ignite the flames of revolution and burn the supposed NWO to the ground? Are you that fucking stupid?

    Oh wait, I forgot who I was talking to, of course you’re that fucking stupid. Carry on with your pointless, insane conspiracy nonsense…

  9. Thanks, pal, thanks. I really mean it. But you’re pissing into the wind.

  10. Thestupidis…..Bro, before you said the national guard wasn’t coming. Now you say they get deployed AlL tHe TiMe.

    No one thinks you are smart. You live in denial. You have never been right about anything and you still haven’t given one instance when the wingnut guy was wrong. You just dismiss the truth with bizarre rationalizations. Seriously give me one thing he’s been wrong about and the comments will stop.

    Vaccines and ID chips are coming. Door to door checks from the military are coming. More restrictions are coming. Comment section essays about how you dont like what’s in the comment section ain’t going to change that.

  11. Did you see the CNN spot with Bill Gates? I’m not sure why he is so involved in this but he was saying he wants to use the Corona pandemic as a way to “vaccinate everyone in the world.” He went on further to discuss the need for vaccine tracking certificates which leads to ID2020, a digital implant. They do need a stronger internet system to track everyone and that is why the 5g small cells are being installed everywhere during the shutdown.

    Gates claimed that even states with only 200 cases of Corona will need to be shutdown since the disease spreads exponentially in days, which it obviously doesn’t.

  12. Pissed off that Cleveland destroyed traffic flow with unused bike lanes that never went to a vote or even open to public debate while your tax dollars funded them?

    You’re not alone, it happened across the Country with nary a peep.

    Google:Agenda 21

    🚫💉

  13. Wingnut, it would be hard for me to have said anything before considering this is my first comment here. Whoever you think I am, Im not him. I’m sure you believe that’s a conspiracy too. None of that dumb shit is coming. Hilarious all the stuff about how wrong I am when you can’t even get who I am or what I’ve said right. You aren’t right, or intelligent, in anyones mind but your own. The National Guard barely fucking qualifies as military and they certainly aren’t equipped as a fucking invasion force. They’re deployed everywhere, in places that have many more cases than we do, so why have we not heard of anything you’ve been alluding to happening? Why haven’t we heard about it in Europe? These so called globalists are only carrying out their devious plots in the US? Globalists who don’t give a fuck about the globe?

    Lets be clear, the only reason it’s not multiplying exponentially here is because our Governer actually did the right thing and shut shit down and people with more sense than you have been locking themselves down. This is NOT even close to an actual lockdown, so you’re wrong again, as it’s basically still voluntary and you can leave your house and go anywhere you want and nobody is going to stop you or say a fucking thing. I know because I leave my house whenever I need to and not a single time have I been stopped or otherwise interfered with. There’s a long list of exceptions, and as far as I know, the police haven’t been charging anyone or doing anything to those that violate said supposed lockdown. All you morons do is exaggerate every little piece of information you absorb, valid or otherwise, and then say DERE YOU SEE I WAS RIGHT, HURR DURRRR.

    The idiot blathering about Bill Gates, did you get your summary of his interview from some right wing survivalist/militia website? Because I read his actual editorial, you know the one he wrote, and he says NOTHING OF THE FUCKING SORT. Blah blah, more stupidity about 5 fucking G. Tell me, were you this afraid of 4G? What about 4GLTE? Were those also tools of the satanist globalist pedophiles, or whoever you believe is behind all of this? No? Then explain to me how 5G is, you fucking dunce.

    Jesus the guy who commented after me was 100% right, I’m pissing into the wind while you dipshits are so braindead it’s like you pissed on an electric fence.

  14. What I meant was, that was my first comment here. The one a few comments up. The one directly above was my second and this is my third. Just to clarify before you nutjobs jump on my shit for it.

    PS- You’re still dumb, and you’re still wrong.

  15. Hi, back again, this is my fourth comment , I know you have trouble counting all the way to 5 so I figured I’d make it easy for you and number them. That way you can practice your numbers and letters, like you’re probably still doing with your alphabet soup.

    Here’s what I really want to know, so if this is all a plot by the big bad government to get us, like people like you have been saying for 30 fucking years nonstop, why oh why did they wait until now? Why now and not the 70s or 80s or even the early 90s, considering the military and probably black projects have been working on bio weapons since WW2? Why would they wait until now, considering we’re better equipped than ever before to fight something like this? Not to mention we have this great tool for global communication that is pretty much impossible to effectively censor without pulling the plug on the whole shebang, and lo and behold, it’s still here too. If this is all some giant deception, why are they doing such a piss poor job of it?

    I’d bet anything that you’re one of those idiot assholes who was crowing about how Obama was going to declare martial law and take everyone’s guns from the minute he got elected. Tell me, were you right about that? What the fuck have you ever been right about? Not a damn thing.

    Please crawl back into your survival bunker, eat your freedom rations, drink your overpriced bone broth and shut the fuck up and leave this to the people that aren’t insane.

    Ok, I’m done, carry on with your retarded speculation. Promise me this though, if you’re wrong about all your dumbass the end is nigh speculation, promise me you’ll remove yourself from the internet and the gene pool. I’d make the same promise to you, but if I’m wrong the military/globalist army will take care of that for you so no worries.

  16. Ah,,,,the 5g nut case using his mobile phone. He better hide,,the national guard is coming,,,,lol

    Let’s see, he’s mad about not washing dishes where he works,,,,he’s mad because everyone else is lying and wrong, even those that have died, he thinks it’s false. ,,,,he’s mad about bike lanes on the street,,,,he’s scared about 5g,,even while using his mobile phone all day,,,,,
    He’s scared about the national guard,,,

    I think he’s just scared.

  17. @don’t peel on,,

    This nut is here all day, he constantly changes his log on so he can up vote his comments and make it seem like multiple people. But it’s the same fantasy regardless of his posted name…

    Someone needs attention.

  18. Artful Dodger and the wingnut hater leave comments on every article and then have the nerve to say the other commenter is looking for attention? Those are some really long comments, directing back to your other comments. It sounds like you might be getting paranoid. You must have skipped over bill gates interview part about ID2020 and where he says verbatim “I want to vaccinate everyone in the world.” Why do you shill for bill gates? Anyways, because you dont like it, it’s not true- argument settled, you win again by shutting down information with idiocy, denial, and tired insults.

    I hope you think of me when you get your shot.

  19. Comments on every article= Lies and exaggeration

    Bill Gates= Who gives a shit? So your argument is that because Bill Gates supposedly said this, I can’t find any record of it but let’s just say it’s true for the sake of argument, it’s definitely going to happen? Here’s a newsflash, billionaires say stupid shit all of the time, what does it matter? Bill Gates has exactly zero control over who gets vaccinated and who doesn’t. Notice that he supposedly said “I want” which means fuck all. Who cares what he wants? I wasn’t aware that Bill was elected both King and Chief Medical Officer of the entire world, you jackass.

    As for the stupid ID2020 shit you keep rambling on about I’m pretty sure that arises from your own ignorant interpretation of him saying that we need a database to keep track of those who recieve the as of yet non existent vaccine so they can track outcomes and analyze data, dummy. I’m going to say it’s a fact that he never referred to anything called ID2020, because by the time we probably have a tested, working vaccine it won’t be 2020 anymore. More of you misinterpreting things you don’t understand and then claiming it’s evidence that advances your dumb theories. You are the literal definition of confirmatiom bias.

    I will think of you when I’m getting my VOLUNTARY vaccine in a year or so, because I’m not stupid enough to be afraid of something like a vaccine. Had a bunch of em, never did me a bit of harm. I will happily think of you hacking yourself to death because of your own pig headed ignorance and fear, while I live on. It’s not an unpleasant picture, to be honest.

  20. You could go to ID2020 dot org. It’s not a myth. I dont know why Bill Gates is given so much influence over our politics, science, and medical system.

    But dude, even though you suck, don’t get the vaccine. It’s a trick.

  21. If you’re talking about the new standardized ID card that you’ll need to fly, I’m aware of it and it was being talked about, planned and deployed before Covid19 was a blip on the radar. It doesn’t scare or bother me at all. I’m honestly not sure where you get this notion that Bill is such a huge influence, I mean, charity wise yes, possibly even lobbying wise yes, but is he the mad scientist responsible for planning out this imaginary conspiracy you’ve concocted in your mind, definitely not.

    How in the world could you possibly know that this hypothetical vaccine that we don’t even have yet is a trick? That might be the dumbest thing I’ve read on the internet all year and with Trump in the White House still, that’s saying a lot. That’s something to actually be afraid of, not these shadowy conspiracies that only exist in your mind and the minds of similarly disturbed individuals.

    I hope you think of me when none of this crap you’re so afraid of comes to pass, exactly like the idea that Obama was going to declare martial law and take everyone’s guns. Noticed you didn’t touch that one because you know damn well you bought into it hook, line and sinker. So at least you aren’t a liar, which is more than most of your ilk can say. I tip my hat to you, from an acceptable social distance, for that.

  22. I believe this is what has to take part before Christ returns aka the Rapture of the saints. People, it WILL get worse before it gets better. Believe me the better won’t happen until all the prophesies have been fulfilled The prophet Isaiah tells us in God’s word that it will happen. The Mark of the beast is coming and that is what the digital imprint in your right hand or forehead is. Some Large companies are already using it in their employees here in the U.S. it is right at the moment not compulsory (mandatory), but soon everyone and I mean EVERYONE will be forced to take it or you will not be able to buy or sell anything! Then later, those who have disobeyed the government (the liberal left) (which is why we want President Trump to continue his presidency in 2020 and beyond to keep the liberal left from keeping America strong as our president is keeping us strong now) will be “taken out!” But biblical prophesies tell us that it is coming and NOT to take the Mark as it will be a Mark you cannot go back on once you get it done. It WILL be an extreme time that many will die from more than what we are seeing now. It is coming people! This virus that is happening is why more and more people who are aware of what is coming, are buying guns for protection of their families! There will be looting of ones belongings as well as food, while you are home because food and necessities will be scarce. People that have “stocked up” on their necessities will be prime targets for shooting and looting. Which is why the need for more protection of our families. What we are experiencing now is just the beginning of the awful things to come in the very near future. Jesus has a plan of escape for those who will put their love and trust in HIM for your lives. Jesus’s word in the Holy Scriptures says in John 14:6&7 “ I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. If you knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on you do know Him and have seen Him!”

  23. Go thump your Bible somewhere else, you POS. Pack a church and die.

  24. Holy horseshit.

    Yes, Donald Trump, the porn star fucking, money grubbing, thrice divorced thief who steals from his own charities to glorify himself, not god, is clearly the holy agent that’s going to lead us into heaven on Earth. How many babies do you think were aborted on his behalf and instruction you blind leading the blind moron? Clearly the bible doesn’t say “the meek shall inherit the Earth” or “turn the other cheek” or “what you do to the least of my brethren, you do to me” it defeinitely says “and the Lord said: Grab thy guns and defend thy earthly possessions” and “I got mine, you better get yours!”

    You Evangelical morons have so perverted religion to your own stupid ass ends, it makes me laugh everytime I see stupid shit like the comments above. The Bible also says “no man may knoweth the hour or the day of Christs return” so it’ll definitely happen during something obvious like a national crisis during a fucking pandemic. I’d be willing to bet my soul itself that during the Spanish Flu pandemic in the early 1900s, there were idiots just like yourself telling everyone that this was it, here, surely, was the time of their Lord and Saviors return, but guess what? No joy on that one and there will be no joy on this one either, because your entire religion is a scam invented by man to facilitate the rich staying rich and those who have power, staying in power. It’s fucking nonsense, just like your entire outlook on the world. It couldn’t be less biblical or more perverted by whats best for you and you alone.

    Give the dumbass prophesies a fucking rest already, nobody is coming to save you. Certainly not Donald fucking Trump, who you idiot evangelicals have elevated to the level of golden calf idol worship. If god even gives a fuck anymore, you can bet he’s laughing his holy ass off over that one. “A camel may pass through the eye of a hurricane easier than a rich man may find his way into the kingdom of god” Derrrrr clearly that means lets find the vainest, most money glorifying idiot we can who already worships himself like he is god and make him the object of our worship here on Earth- idiot evangelicals everywhere.

    I wonder if they have Big Macs and porn stars in heaven?

  25. That’s because you’re an idiot who probably barely even knows wtf 5G is. Keep your ass ignorant speculation to yourself, dummy.

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