We don't want to be like some of the other countries we've seen where they shut down, opened up, and now are starting to shut down again.

Mike DeWine

If we lose that willingness, then it will be disaster, we will lose many, many more lives and our business will not come back. We can't lose that sense.

This is not about politics. This is not about whether you're liberal or conservative, left or right, Republican, Democrat, we wear the mask, and it's been very clear what the studies have shown ; you wear the mask not to protect yourself so much as to protect others. And this is one time when we truly are all in this together. What we do directly impacts others.

About 90 % of our economy is back open because we thought it was a huge risk not to reopen.

Experts tell us, look, two weeks is too late. Another week is too late.

Every night when I go to bed, I think' Have we done enough ?' every morning when I get up, I think,' Have we done enough ?' All day long I think,' Have we done enough ?' That's a question I ask my team, every single day and I've asked Mike DeWine 24 hours a day.

I feel good about the decision to have the election go on tomorrow.

During this time when we face an unprecedented public health crisis, to conduct an election tomorrow would force poll workers and voters to place themselves at a unacceptable health risk of contracting coronavirus.