Stay at home! Governor Mike DeWine is locking down Ohio, ordering citizens to stay at home and issuing rules for all non-essential businesses to close starting at 11:59 pm on Monday. This comes as Ohio reports 351 cases of COVID-19 in 40 counties. Of those, 83 people are hospitalized. The official number of deaths still stands at three.
Issuing the order, the Governor said, “We have not faced an enemy like we are facing today for 102 years. We are certainly at War. In a time of war, we have to make sacrifices. I have certainly asked the people of Ohio to make sacrifices.”
DeWine did not call the new stay at home rules a lockdown, but said, “This is an order, not a suggestion. I’m not sure what a lockdown means. If everyone cooperates, we’re going to save a lot of lives. Don’t get fixated on our choice of words. There are certainly common-sense excepts. Go to the grocery store, go to the pharmacy, go on a mercy mission. It’s time. We have to do absolutely everything that we can. The lesson of history is time after time is that if you don’t do these things early enough you pay a price. The price is people dying.”
