By Kevin Roche If you haven’t seen the Bill Maher video on the absurd paranoia about coronavirus across the country, you must watch it. (Maher Video) Once again, too much sense for our policymakers. But maybe if more people keep…
Raleigh, NC – According to Apple’s COVID-19 Mobility Trends report, traffic in North Carolina has nearly returned to pre-coronavirus lock-down volume. As of Saturday, May 2, North Carolinian are driving only three percent less than the baseline date of January…
by Jon Guze Raleigh, NC – In North Carolina and across the country, Americans have coalesced into two angry factions based on how they feel about statewide lockdown orders like the one that Gov. Roy Cooper imposed on North Carolinians…
By Kevin Roche Here are some quick summaries of news articles and op-ed type columns, which bring a ray of reality into the discussion. These I generally select because if you want the hell scared out of you about how…
By Kevin Roche I have noted in past posts that the excessive use of executive power in regard to the coronavirus pan(dem)ic is fundamentally undemocratic. It is also unconstitutional. At least three provisions are violated by the ongoing use of…
by Steve Murphy North Carolina – Over the past week, a lot has changed. For example, North Carolina has started to release death statistics and cases broken down by Congregate (nursing home, residential facility, prison) and Non-Congregate (general population). Also,…
by John Trump Concord, NC – Steve Pinkerton is a business owner who now does little business. He isn’t unique because of that, and he gets it. This pandemic and the ensuing shutdowns and lockdowns have taken much. Pinkerton owns…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – At an April 23 news conference, Gov. Roy Cooper gave a reasonable explanation of what led him to institute North Carolina’s statewide stay-at-home order nearly a month earlier. His secretary of health and human…
By Kevin Roche Several more studies find that the coronavirus infection rate is far higher than that reported by positive test results and that all these unreported infections are asymptomatic or mild cases. The first study comes from four prisons.…
by Julie Havlak Raleigh, NC – North Carolina lawmakers will consider a $688 million spending bill and a series of policy reforms, after money and policy draft bills passed the House Committee on COVID-19 Health Care Working Group Thursday, April…