The 60-year-old Ohio man, John W. McDaniel, who said the state’s coronavirus lockdown was a ‘political ploy’ and declared the governor didn’t have the authority to close businesses has died of COVID-19.
(The governor does. “Federal judge rules against bridal shop’s challenge to Ohio health order closing nonessential businesses”)
On his Facebook page, which apparently has been taken down, he wrote:
McDaniel leaves behind a wife and two sons and will have a livestreamed funeral service on Wednesday. “You could not have known a more loving and loyal husband, father, son, brother, uncle, and friend,” the obit said.
His family pleaded in his obit for “everyone to continue practicing social distancing to keep each other safe.”
In his obituary, published by Snyder Funeral Homes, the 60-year-old was remembered as “the first to crack a joke no matter the occasion”. So feel free!
Ohio has over 13,000 confirmed cases of the virus, including 1300 new cases yesterday. Over 500 have died.
