Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine looking at county by county coronavirus restrictions

[Buckeye_Democrat]

I hope that Ohio will finally require masks! There's too many non-masked people in the Dayton area, and the cases are growing. Imagine that!

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2020/06/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-looking-at-county-by-county-coronavirus-restrictions-a-reversal-from-the-past.html

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine -- who in the past had called imposing coronavirus restrictions by county a disaster -- said he’s now looking at such an approach.

DeWine made the remarks during Thursday’s coronavirus briefing when he was discussing hotspots in the Dayton and Cincinnati areas.

“As we move forward into this stage we are in now, we are looking more and more at county by county...As we see alarming numbers in Dayton, as we see alarming numbers in Cincinnati, in Hamilton County, in Dayton in Montgomery, these are conversations that we are going to be having with local officials about what are the different things that we can do,” DeWine said...


... Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, a Democrat, said she was on the phone with the governor on Thursday morning.

She said they didn’t talk about imposing restrictions on people’s movements and business operations. The discussions were about whether there should be mandatory mask-wearing in the city.

She doesn’t think it’s likely that DeWine will impose a lockdown in her city again.

“It could happen if we get to Houston levels,” she said, referring to the outbreak there. “I hope we can avoid that.”