I am asking you, wherever you live, to wear a mask when in public. Some may question the wisdom of masks, but as we said when I was a prosecutor: “The jury is back. The verdict is in.” There is broad consensus in medical, health, & business communities that masks are critical.

Wearing masks is our best way to protect Ohio jobs. A recent @GoldmanSachs report shows that wearing face masks can be viewed as an alternative to lockdowns.

They found that, in most cases, within a couple of weeks of people consistently wearing facemasks, there was a slowdown in the spread of the virus.

Further, the study suggests that to curb spread as successfully as wearing face masks does, we’d have to consider a lockdown that essentially would subtract five percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product.