If you care about doctors and you care about nurses, you care about first responders, firefighters or EMTs or police officers who may have to deal with you if you get sick, you just wear a mask.
Mike DeWine
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Mike DeWine is the 70th Governor of Ohio, having taken office on January 14, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the Attorney General of Ohio from 2011 to 2019 and as a U.S. Senator from 1995 to 2007. Throughout his political career, DeWine has focused on issues such as education, public safety, and healthcare reform. His administration has also been marked by responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to improve the state's economy.
Well, I say that they should wear masks. And first of all, Anderson, one thing that I think that we have going for us, this past weekend was the first weekend that our restaurants were open inside and that our bars were open inside. And I…
If you think wearing a mask is something that's bad, so you want to try what I went through.
We're approaching a huge number, a number of Americans who have died. And that's just absolutely gut-wrenching and horrible.
Ohio has not seen a 14-day downward trajectory in cases which was one of the benchmarks initially laid out by the Coronavirus Task Force.
You've got to wear a mask, you've got to keep the social distancing, you've got to be careful.
The news out today is very concerning: it should be concerning to every American.
It's really what people do every day in their own lives that ultimately has this huge effect across the state.
We're trying to balance it this way: you know, we've seen for about three weeks a slight downward trend in hospitalization, which we think is good.
What we are now doing is I'm talking a lot about it, and we really, you know, hope that people, when they think about this, will understand that this is a very important thing to do.
It's not even for them, it's for everybody else in the store. Can a -- if that's not law, can a business still insist that people either wear a mask, or -- and if not, they don't come in?
Well, I think that it's absolutely true that there are a lot of costs for high unemployment, and a huge crash in the economy, that we have seen.
Ohio governor, Mike DeWine, is going to join me to talk about whether these new projections in any way affect his timeline for Ohio.
One of the things that we really, really need is testing. You know, if you talk about a pathway -- if you talk about a pathway to get us back, testing -- ample testing is going to be the way that we get back, and get our people working…
I have to make the decision that's my responsibility, but we're certainly going to consult with the White House.
Ultimately the buck stops with me and stops with the other governors, but again I understand what the President's saying.
It would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year.
I think we can get them all passed. It's not going to be easy, but when I propose them, you know, the tape you played was on Sunday night. A tragedy, of course, occurred Sunday morning. On Tuesday morning I made proposals, put a package…
I think people will say, look, that is due process. And I can accept that because -- our friends for the Second Amendment, everybody agrees, we have some people out there, Anderson, who we got to separate from their guns.
If you're going to address them at all, it seems to me it has to be done at the national level.





