We Must Never Forget the Deaths caused by the Democrates and their Policies during COVID-19 Lock Down
March 22, 2020, Stay At Home Order
Mark Twain once said, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
Six years ago, many of us were fooled. I was fooled.
Mike DeWine and Dr. Amy Acton sold Ohioans a false emergency built on limited testing, a few hospitals that were temporarily over-stressed at different times, government overreach, failed disaster predictions, and relentless fear messaging.
Many Libertarians in Ohio and across the country were swept up in that disaster narrative. Many were drawn in by the seductive appeal of social responsibility, unity, and mass compliance.
The numbers matter. Ohioans were not just shown a vague warning. Ohioans were shown a terrifying progression: an initial peak projection of 62,000 new cases per day without mitigation, references to a 4% mortality rate, 9,800 new cases per day expected average, and then, suddenly, by April 8, a revised peak of about 1,600 new cases per day.
That was not a minor adjustment. That was a dramatic collapse in the public disaster narrative within weeks.
Ohioans lived through those events. Ohioans suffered, carried burdens, dealt with unemployment, business closures, lost loved ones, welcomed new babies, and came away with a sharper understanding of how precious life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness really are.
This primary election should be a time to remember, truly remember, the horrible disaster predictions used to justify lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, and business shutdowns.
Many people do not remember. Many others do not want to remember. Some feel even bringing it up is upsetting. Still others point only to the cumulative casualties after years of lies, distortions, and social wreckage, while avoiding the original fear campaign that made it all possible.
Amy Acton’s defenders now want to say it was only Mike DeWine all along. Vivek Ramaswamy’s allies are content to drag Acton while ignoring the Republican machine that enabled, defended, and normalized the whole regime. Neither response is serious. Mike DeWine and Dr. Amy Acton both own what happened. Ohio’s Republican supermajority owns its share as well.
A free people cannot afford selective memory. Ohioans should remember what was said, what was done, what was lost, and who asked for trust while giving so little candor in return.
Memory matters. Truth matters. Accountability matters. Ohio cannot move forward honestly if it refuses to remember how easily fear was used to control our lives for so long.
I call on you to join the Libertarian Party of Ohio by pulling a Libertarian ballot from April 7th to May 5th and show those liars and thieves we will not be fooled again.
Long live liberty,
Michael Sweeney
Chair, Executive Committee
Libertarian Party of Ohio
The Details.
DeWine and Acton had an infamous chart, right from the beginning, that was a model of "worst case" and "best case" scenarios.
In this recreated graph above we can see the blue line, charting 62,000 "cases" a day at the end of March as the worst case scenario, while the orange line saw 10,000 cases a day, and the green line shows reality, even before the Stay At Home Order and other govt mandates, didn't reach 10k a day until 18 months later, with the vast majority of cases showed no symptoms.
Below is a screen capture of the chart.
By April 7th, the disaster narrative had collapsed from a predicted peak of 62,000 cases to 9,800 and then 1,600. Even as Acton and DeWine implored Ohioans to ignore the actual numbers and take their word that many, many more Ohioans were infected (as we later discovered, many had been and very few had gotten seriously ill).
Acton spent much of the April 7th press conference talking in circles about how their prediction models were wrong, Ohio's actual numbers were nowhere near those originally predicted, and we couldn't possibly back off from restrictions, or the worst would still happen.
April 8th was the last day DeWine and Acton honestly could have preserved credibility. April 10th was the last day a correction could have looked serious. April 17th was the point where the disconnect with reality was too obvious, and maintaining the disaster narrative was a decision.
Not convinced Dr. Amy Acton was pushing fear with misleading numbers? Here is a screenshot of Acton on April 21st, a whole month later, pointing to a 4% case fatality rate, that while "true" based on the limited testing at the time, was orders of magnitude higher than everyone had acknowledged as even possible a month earlier.
Still having trouble remembering?
Every single press conference is still online at The Ohio Channel.
We can provide video clips and new articles to back up every assertion.
Words matter.
View the DeWine and Acton press conferences.
Posted on 23 Mar 2026, 11:01 - Category: State of Ohio