By. N.A. Booko Pittsboro, NC – Can’t say just when I started submitting to the Chatlist, but I believe it was around 2004. Not so many pieces way back then, but after 2008 I seem to remember writing more frequently.…
By Kevin Roche I don’t know how much clearer it could be that the general population has a very, very small risk from CV-19. When I see people missing health care, not being with friends and families, children not getting…
By N.A. Booko Pittsboro, NC – The Waltons TV show premiered September 1972. I had only settled in Chatham County the month before. I had a 19″ portable black and white TV set. I saw all the Walton shows in…
By N.A. Booko Pittsboro, NC – It is indeed hard to find something delightful in the winter garden. But right now, I have some miniature roses that have decided to bloom. It all started maybe forty years ago when I…
By Mark Stinson Bear Creek, NC – I have been in and out of a number of places across several counties recently and I have seen more not wearing masks than doing so. I have yet to point a finger…
By Kevin Roche Since the start of the epidemic, concerns about overwhelming hospitals have been a primary justification for all the measures taken to reduce case spread. The background is that hospitals in the United States run at very high…