As Ohio slowly reopens, officials say the refusal of some residents to take the health warnings seriously could slow or even reverse the state’s push to avoid the worst of coronavirus.
and in a Dollar General store in Ashland, Ohioans are defying the governor and health director’s admonitions to protect themselves and others from the coronavirus.
In Portsmouth, Eaton and Ashland, county commissioners are demanding that DeWine and Acton free them from the state health restrictions. The Preble County board in Eaton simply declared all of its county’s businesses essential on May 1 and able to reopen instantly, with commission President Denise Robertson pledging to literally stand in the way and call in the sheriff if any authorities try to enforce state edicts, the Dayton Daily News reported.
As state health restrictions near the two-month mark, the outrage against them seems to have spread from a few online agitators to protesters at the Statehouse to Republicans who dominate the Ohio House. By almost a straight party-line vote, the House approved a measure last week that would give lawmakers much more control over state health orders. DeWine has pledged to veto it.
“I just think that, if you’re from an area or region that has a greater density of population, I think you are probably more likely to worry about those things.” During Thursday’s briefing, state Lt. Gov. Jon Husted said, “I know we don’t like masks, some of us. I don’t like wearing them. I know many people that don’t, but it’s not about me. It’s not about any one of us. It’s about the responsibility we have to each other to respect distances, to wash our hands a couple of times a day to make sure that we are not spreading the virus potentially to someone else.
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