Play Ball-WITHOUT MASKS

Mike DeWine, you have decimated Ohioans. Please socially distance yourself from our lives, permanently.

This mask mandate is dangerous and unnecessary. It needs removed!

Dear Governor Dewine, My name is Austin. I’m thirteen years old and I play baseball. I’m hoping to play for college one day. I’ve been playing for a long time, and I feel your mandates aren’t necessary. The masks are going to be hard to wear in the summer. In the hot heat, it will be hard for me to breathe. It’s going to be very uncomfortable with all the sweat. Also, it isn’t effective because I have to take it on and off throughout the game. It will get germs all over it when I put it down on the bench or in my bag. My hands will be dirty and my mask will be contaminated. My parents won’t let me play unless you change this mandate. I’m very upset about this, and I’ve been very emotional about it. I’m hoping you can make the right decision and change the mask mandate. Sincerely, Austin Hedges

I will not muzzle my child to continue the fear and scare tactics!

Enough stupid restrictions. Let people go on with their lives.

Enough with the mask directives! You’ve already said they don’t work!

The most ridiculous rules I’ve ever seen. Kids aren’t dying from this!!! Scared people stay home!!! This isn’t baseball!!!

You are asking for heat related injuries by mandating this.

This guideline is absolutely ludicrous. How in the world can you have sweaty children who have been catching a softball, touching their glove, possibly touching the bases, the bats, the dirt, etc. now touching their masks and then putting it over their face?? Really? How is that sanitary? So now they have a contaminated mask on their face and they're sweating and it's getting it wet... and we know that a wet contaminated mask is the breeding ground for germs and we're putting it over our mouth and nose? Are you really serious?? I do not mean to be disrespectful, but this is by far the most inane restriction given yet!

and on a side note.... if you plan on making schools all weird and scary my child won't be attending. It's not good for their mental health to be in that type of environment.

Depriving people of oxygen, and forcing CO2 and bacteria into their brains and throats is doing nothing but making healthy people sick. With children doing activities in the sun and fresh air and depriving them is even more dangerous. They are still developing and oxygen deprivation to their brains, lungs and other organs could cause so much more damage than the risk of catching covid that has such a high recovery rate. We don't know what the long term effect of wearing masks for long periods of time will be. For adults working it's headaches, dizziness, some are passing out. How is that going to fare for our youngsters, running and sweating in the sun, which also reduces rate of taking virus home with them. There have been very little children effected and their immune systems are stronger than ours, quit compromising them!

For the love of the game and the kids let them play and be kids with no masks to worry them!