Shape it with your voice!
Would you like to express your opinion on the upcoming elections and the problems you are concerned about? Your Voice Ohio and Sidney Daily News have teamed up to sponsor a series of online conversations so you can help control Ohio’s presidential election. Please contribute to this effort by visiting this online page: www.yourvoiceohio.org/election2020. Participants will decide on the volunteer list to constitute ohio demographics and will get a $125 stipend for their participation in a session.
They came from all corners of Ohio, all walks of life, and they’re all trying to cope with the coronavirus pandemic in many of the same ways — more face-time with family; experimenting in the kitchen; finally cleaning out that old, junked garage.
They shared many of the same considerations about the vast unknown that still awaits the other people of Ohio and the country as a whole, as they take as their center the small gestures of humanity that now shine brighter along this dark horizon.
Your Voice Ohio, a journalistic collaboration of more than 50 news organizations across the state, brought together more than two dozen Ohios for a series of virtual roundtables in early August. The COVID-19 issue, because that’s what Ohio citizens said in a state poll in July, is with much greater concern. Collaboration with the media sought to learn how the pandemic affected their lives, how they confronted it, and how they were looking for a way forward.
It wasn’t like your Facebook feed. These Ohioans of other ages, backgrounds, and ethnicities seemed more in agreement than disagree. They said they were looking to cut off the partisan fog of war, turn off the TV news, look for incrusient and hard facts, which reviews, about the nature of the pandemic, and come in combination in a non-unusual floor to perceive all this in combination.
“No matter who you support, it’s not a game,” said Adam Seal, a 30-year-old from Lake County whose mother is the main threat to COVID-19 and whose small circle of business relatives at CVC is on the brink. .
“I feel like it’s a game, [everything] for the show. People’s lives are at stake here,” he said. “We listened to a lot of opinions. We want a unified message. We want to pay attention to the experts. Our governments will have to paint together. We have to be on the same page.”
As in the Great Recession more than a decade ago, Ohions said they were suffering with a weakened economy and widespread unemployment; Choose the monthly expenses to pay and the expenses to bring balanced on the top cable, not knowing what’s underneath to catch your fall.
They feel their voices are being stifled by this year’s bubbling presidential election typhoon, with their shocking and shocking stories captured through the red and blue flags. Calls to action are being interrupted by the development of mistrust of the disastrous projections of the most productive medical science, and even more through ongoing reviews of our most productive wisdom of a viral pandemic that we have not noticed in a century.
Meanwhile, more than 100,000 Ohion citizens have become inflamed and 4,000 have died.
What in your Voice Ohio’s mind can become a widespread sense of uncertainty: whether your businesses and homes can cope with this storm; If they stay healthy If it’s too hard to kiss their grandchildren if they ever get their lives back. And who can they turn to for answers and a transparent address?
Help Network of Northeast Ohio, a regional firm that connects people who call 2-1-1 with the social facilities they want and also operates a suicide and crisis hotline, has not earned many more calls than before the pandemic began, the CEO said. Vince Brancaccio. But in recent months, the maximum number of non-unusual help calls, usually seeking shelter or food, has a lower average than calls from Ohio citizens seeking peace of mind only; someone to tell them that everything will be fine.
“These calls of convenience are more aimed at callers who are anxious, depressed, worried or frightened about what will happen,” Brancaccio said. “It’s not that they want data consistent with the se. They are not necessarily suicidal or in crisis. They just want to communicate to calm down.
‘TAKE CHARGE’
Participants told us there’s been little that’s felt reassuring about the nation’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Many participants in each of the five regional sessions said they felt americans were not following the same pandemic guidance. Those who public servants deserve to lead from the most sensible to the later with a fact-based policy backed by the most productive medical science, and do not deserve any partisan dispute.
“I just need the manager to take care of the issues in his own hands. I’m proud to be an American, but I even questioned it when I saw some countries make tough decisions,” said Joey Toadrito of Cincinnati. “I very much. Other countries don’t need us because we have had very little control over [the pandemic].”
JoEllen Hayes, who lives with her veterinary husband on a 70-acre farm between Cambridge and New Concord, said the reaction to the Ohio pandemic was “excellent” under the leadership of former Ohio Department of Health director Dr Amy Acton. But it’s “fractured.” She is “frustrated and regretted” that some Ohio citizens of the pandemic are a “deception.”
“Everyone has to be on the same page,” said Carol Dillon, a cashier who lives in Zanesville, who joined Hayes and others in the southeast Ohio session.
“You don’t know who to believe. Some say it’s no worse than the flu,” he said.
Although Fauci said at the time that his advice fears U.S. physical care staff. Facing a shortage of non-public protective devices across the country, Adams said the mask was not effective in preventing the spread of the virus. Adams then replaced his position after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began recommending masks in April, based on new findings.
President Donald Trump said at the time: “You can do it, you don’t have to. That’s just a recommendation. Array… I don’t think I’m going to do it.”
Dissonance is evident to Your Voice Ohio participants, many of whom spend part of their weekday afternoons listening to the same old DeWine addresses.
“If your point of view has changed, recognize the change. It’s a component of being a leader. And if not, maybe I’m not a leader,” said Cecelia McFadden of northeast Ohio. “I’d like to see some integrity. I’d like to see a plan. I paint in systems, then there are plans. That’s what I don’t see.”
Ken Yuchasz, an instructor at Somerset College, was used to coronavirus being a flu. Since then, his school has closed and installed a decontamination station at the back of his space to ensure the protection of medically vulnerable family members.
He showed his academics an educational video about the Spanish flu of 1918. Public opinion on the current pandemic is divided, as a hundred years ago, he said.
“Today, we don’t feel like we have a common enemy,” Yuchasz said.
Michael Rankin, of Dover, called the initial reaction to the pandemic “random” and said he hoped Americans “should combine it now.”
“We have a unified front and there just doesn’t seem to be a coherent plan across the country.” He said. “Governor [Mike] DeWine did a wonderful job and government leaders did a wonderful job. At the national level, we do not mobilize or unite.”
Ohio, one of the first states to act aggressively through end schools and non-essential businesses. Today, the state ranks 222rd in the country with a mortality rate of about 33 consisting of 100,000 people, much higher than its neighbors Michigan, Pennsylvania and Indiana and lower than the national rate of 49 consistent with 100,000.
DeWine, in a briefing on the state’s reaction to the coronavirus on August 20, said he did not expect the pandemic deniers to pay attention to it, but medical experts.
“The order of the mask is a wonderful example. I sense the controversy with the mask, but if you communicate with the experts, you can find … The jury’s back. There’s no quarrel. Masks are very important.
“I think it is a prudent, conservative approach to do some sacrifice wearing a mask so that you can have more freedom,” DeWine said. “To me, that is the ultimate conservative approach. It is an approach that expands liberty, an approach that expands freedom.”
Although DeWine is consistent with the importance of masks, he limited the use of executive powers to enforce them.
Ohio recorded an average of about 1,073 new instances according to the day of July 23, when the statewide mask mandate came here on August 23. The state averaged 1,059 new instances according to the day of the month before the mandate.
However, the number of coronavirus tests administered each day in the state continues to increase. From July 21 to August 21, an average of 22,338 more people were tested according to the day. When the mask’s mandate came into force on July 23, the seven-day moving average of positive testing yielded 6.4%. By 21 August, it had fallen to 4%.
Connecticut, whose mask mandate has been in effect since April 20, recorded an average of 294 new cases in line with the day after the term came into effect. Prior to that, the first knowledge reported across the state is dated March 24, there were an average of 711 new instances consistent with the day.
While Ohio’s non-essential spaces began to reopen last April and early May, DeWine commissioned masks for unwavering workers and consumers, but the next day degraded the order to undeniable advice for consumers.
Acton, the former ODH director who amassed celebrities at the state afternoon briefings, resigned in mid-June amid political saves, adding anti-Semitic comments (Acton is Jewish) and protests against the open-air lockout of her home. He left the state’s task absolutely in early August.
“Americans don’t like ‘no,'” said Yvette Kelly-Fields of Southwest Ohio. “Most people don’t perceive that freedom is not free. Arrangement… When seat belts were first mandatory, others objected.
Another member of the Kelly-Fields Regional Group said he felt that the rules of the pandemic were not being debated.
“There is no position to politicize a fitness crisis. There is no other perspective,” said the Dayton-area woman, who is type I diabetic and is at increased risk of COVID-19 and has since s downsized her school and career plans.
When DeWine’s management unveiled Ohio’s public fitness warning formula last June, public masking is mandatory in counties with enough signs of virus spreading to be placed in the “red” alert phase. Less than a month later, DeWine ordered masks statewide.
THE AVERAGE EFFECT
Sherina Ohanian conducts foreign market studies in a dozen other countries from her home near Toledo, while her company operates remotely, and the effects of the pandemic are now part of that work.
Ohanian believes that U.S. media policy on the pandemic is self-centered, yet his paintings provide a global perspective. He wonders why policies are not taken into account in the pandemic reaction in other countries.
“People in Italy were stagnant, they knew it was part of what they had to do,” Ohanian said. “Talking to other people in America is another point of view. It seems to me that it is similar to government or that it is political, or that everyone’s point of view is a facet of the political arena.”
But Ohanian feels the same deep distrust of the government of his counterparts, say, in Singapore or India.
“It’s very strange when you tell other people it’s for our protection and that’s what we want and they say it’s a political issue,” he said. “People from other countries … are not happy with [health restrictions]; they’re not very comfortable with that. But they also know it’s for the common good.”
The pandemic has “extreme personalities,” he said.
“It’s so toxic, such disagreement,” Fryman added later. “There is little cooperation. That sounds like too many postures. It’s about posture.
“Politics has been ugly for a long time. Of course, the media is part of it because they tell the story. Let’s get back to normal.”
For Fryman, the media has been divided into “teams.” Once upon a time Walter Cronkite was on the air and “no one knew what his policyArray was,” he said.
Many other participants in other parts of the state agreed that the media is fighting pandemic-related problems more than they are clearing them up. Many said they haven’t become selfless since, it’s too stressful.
“Can anyone call a radio or television station to give you the news? Everyone is so tired of watching the news,” Ohanian said. “There is no middle ground. These are other aspects of the same story. Society is divided by what we see and read.
Don Bayma of Trumbull County said there will need to be an explanation for why cases continue to rise in the United States while other countries are better able to involve epidemics.
He suspects Americans perceive the full story.
“We want honesty. Tell us the truth,” Bayma said. “If you pay attention to conservative news, you hear a point of view. If you pay attention to liberal news, you hear one.
“We have to get this and we have to tell each other the truth.”
“Pray AND GIVE TO GOD”
Tawana Hill State’s unemployment claims are the 6% still pending in Ohio.
The single mother of four Cleveland-area paintings works as a training assistant in a public school district with no paintings when Ohio schools closed in mid-March. She’s been waiting for unemployment benefits since May.
Hill has now repainted with her special education students. But when he spoke to Your Voice Ohio in early August, he had two months’ rent, balancing the expenses he would pay or withheld each month and was desperately waiting for a federal stimulus circular that Congress vigorously debated but never delivered.
The additional $600 in unemployment benefits included in the CARES Act expired on July 31, as did the federal moratorium on evictions. Ohio has established its own moratorium on deportations.
Hill has sought a momentary income, but is involved in some other task not allowing her to paint remotely, that’s how her school district starts the school year, and the threat of getting a coronavirus is too great. She’s diabetic. She and some of her children have asthma.
“It’s a step there, ” he said.
Ohioning citizens have filed more than 1.6 million initial unemployment applications in the past 22 weeks, more than in the more than 4 years combined, said Bret Crow, spokesman for Ohio’s Department of Employment and Family Services. The week after the state closed on March 15, there were more than 189,000 new claims from the week following.
Initially, some Ohions, Hill, would have waited hours to settle their claims.
“Each state’s formula was surpassed at first due to the historic rise in unemployment,” Crow said. “During past recessions, the number of claims has increased over time.
“During the 2008 recession, our highest weekly total of initial claims was 35,727 claims in December. We more than doubled this highest weekly total in a day without getting married at the end of March.”
The avalanche of claims targeted an already outdated formula built in 2004 whose mainframe was coded into a component of a pre-1980 programming language: “it wasn’t designed to deal with the burden of claims since March,” Crow said.
ODJFS had already started updating the formula in 2019, but those updates will be calibrated until at least 2021.
Since then, ODJFS has increased availability and call centers, added automated systems, and can now settle for SMS claims.
As of Aug. 21, more than 785,000 Ohioans have received nearly $6.1 billion in traditional unemployment benefits. ODJFS has processed 94 percent of the new claims since the onset of coronavirus. The remaining 6 percent — including Hill’s claims — represent the most complex claims, which need to be verified by staff.
The state’s pandemic unemployment assistance program, designed as the “catch-all” for those otherwise ineligible for traditional unemployment compensation, offers 39 weeks of benefits for the self-employed, part-time workers or those whose work situations have otherwise been impacted by the pandemic. So far, it’s given more than 532,000 Ohioans about $5.2 billion.
Hill is not entitled to that because he is entitled to classical unemployment benefit. And because he didn’t get those classic state benefits, he also didn’t get the additional weekly payment of $600 through the CARES Act; if it did, either would be retroactive to the date it became eligible.
Hill said he still had a month on his internet bill. In March, Spectrum began providing loose broadband packages to families with K-12 students; however, when he found out, the show had already been discontinued, he said. Similarly, your phone provider presented a $25 plan consistent with the month, but only for 60 days.
“And it’s six months after the pandemic started,” Hill said.
She said she was grateful for the benefits of the add-on, which “helped put food on the table.” 2-1-1 calls directed her to food banks. She is already connected to a local staff hiring assistance program and has an appointment with the Home Energy Assistance Program to reduce her public services.
Hill told him that every single dollar counted. The rest depends on God.
“Keep your head up and we’ll get there, ” he sought to let the readers know. “Pray and give it to God. That’s essentially what I did.”
The Republican-led U.S. Senate and the Democrat-led House have failed in agreements on the House HEROES Bill or the Senate’s HEALS Act, anyone who would have sent a momentary stimulus check. The Senate erupted until after Labor Day. The House recalled, as yet not acting on the U.S. Postal Service’s emergency investment on August 22.
“A plan is not” we will when we get back from the break if you’re going to get a boost check,” McFadden said warmly.
Trump, through an executive order signed after congressional suspension without a stimulus agreement, filed federal state emergency dollars at at least $300 in additional unemployment benefits. If the federal government withdraws “in a timely manner,” this payment can take place from mid-to-September overdue, DeWine said. States may decide to pay another $100. Those who have not done so will have to prove that they are making an investment that takes advantage of their unemployment system.
Ohio made the decision not to pay the additional $100. Reporters at a coronavirus briefing on August 20 asked DeWine why the state couldn’t do it while Kentucky and West Virginia were making plans to get the game out of their coronavirus aid funds.
“Our research shows that we just don’t have the money to do it,” DeWine said. “So, frankly, I’m not sure how they’re going to do it, but I’m still open to learning.”
DeWine spokesman Dan Tierney said the investigation looked at the total number of eligible unemployed people in Ohio and decreased eligibility, at most until the additional payment expires on August 1.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in July, there were about 105,900 kentucky residents unemployed and 74,500 unemployed in West Virginia, to 502,600 unemployed in Ohio.
Ohio unemployment rate 8.9% in July; 10.2% for the nation, 9.9% in West Virginia and 5.7% in Kentucky.
DeWine, speaking with CNN this month, called the president’s order “a blunt instrument,” he said he presented a transitional solution until an agreement could be reached with Congress.
“What you want to happen is that Congress has to go back to [session] and negotiate,” the governor said. “I’m convinced That Congress can do something.”
Although Ohio employment was created in July, usually from personal service providers, 495,100 jobs are still missing in July 2019.
Back in northeast Ohio, Brancaccio wonders if he is “quiet before the storm.” With federal aid for unemployment in limbo and deportation procedures back at stake, he wonders if those who call Help Network for ethical reasons can then desperately remember the facilities to help them succeed.
Fryman said he finds the government’s need to balance safety over the economy frustrating — he’d rather people be allowed to live fulfilling lives.
“It devastates me to see corporations go bankrupting and other people lose their jobs,” he said. “It makes me look aside about this economic devastation.
“Perhaps it’s too strong a word. It may not be too strong a word.”
By Justin Dennis
Mahoning Questions
Shape it with your voice!
Would you like to express your opinion on the upcoming elections and the problems you are concerned about? Your Voice Ohio and Sidney Daily News have teamed up to sponsor a series of online conversations so you can help control Ohio’s presidential election. Please contribute to this effort by visiting this online page: www.yourvoiceohio.org/election2020. Participants will decide on the volunteer list to constitute ohio demographics and will get a $125 stipend for their participation in a session.
Justin Dennis is a reporter for Mahoning Matters, a news organization serving the Youngstown-Warren area. It can be emailed to [email protected].
This is one of a series of stories about problems that Ohio considers the top in this election year. More than 50 news organizations are participating in the task under the auspices of Your Voice Ohio, the largest sustainable media collaboration in the country. In five years, Your Voice Ohio has brought together more than a hundred newscasts and more than 1,300 Ohio citizens to discuss addiction, economics, and elections. The allocation is funded through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and Facebook. The Jefferson Center for New Democratic Processes designs and facilitates dialogues. Doug Oplinger, retired editor-in-chief of the Akron Beacon Journal, directs media paintings and can be contacted at [email protected].
Justin Dennis is a reporter for Mahoning Matters, a news organization serving the Youngstown-Warren area. It can be emailed to [email protected].
This is one of a series of stories about problems that Ohio considers the top in this election year. More than 50 news organizations are participating in the task under the auspices of Your Voice Ohio, the largest sustainable media collaboration in the country. In five years, Your Voice Ohio has brought together more than a hundred newscasts and more than 1,300 Ohio citizens to discuss addiction, economics, and elections. The allocation is funded through the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and Facebook. The Jefferson Center for New Democratic Processes designs and facilitates dialogues. Doug Oplinger, retired editor-in-chief of the Akron Beacon Journal, directs media paintings and can be contacted at [email protected].
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