By Joseph Coletti Raleigh, NC – It is hard to know things. It’s harder to know how to know things. Harder still is knowing how to know the right things. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper and much of the…
by John Trump Raleigh, NC – This coronavirus isn’t going anywhere. It has burrowed deep into our communities, our hospitals, our psyches. It won’t magically disappear, despite all the wishing. The hoping and the dreaming. We’re hurting. In the eye…
By Kevin Roche This is my question of the day, amidst all the gnashing of teeth around the rise in cases in certain states. The initial strategy was close everything down and tell people to stay at home so that…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – Conventional wisdom has it that progressives champion urbanity and conservatives disdain it. There’s some truth to that. Progressives are far more likely than conservatives to prefer walkable, high-density communities over auto-dependent, detached-dwelling neighborhoods. Urban…
by John Hood Raleigh, NC – During the month of May, 38 states saw their unemployment rates drop as governments eased COVID-19 restrictions and allowed more businesses to open and individuals return to work. In North Carolina, Gov. Roy Cooper…
By Kevin Roche I must say it is discouraging to see so much bad science and bad interpretation of data being pushed for the obvious political reason of protecting those Governors who made horrendous, panicked decisions to shut down economies…
By Kevin Roche This post was begun several weeks ago, but halted to see if perhaps I was wrong about the course of the epidemic. It doesn’t appear that I have been. We will have to ask how we got…
by Becki Gray Raleigh, NC – From flattening the curve to trending, tracking, and tracing. From PPE shortages, to months–long lockdowns and millions of unemployment claims. To stretching our constitutional rights to go along with months of fear, anxiety, and…
By Kevin Roche This article points out how little we know about the infectious agents that cause many of our minor illnesses. It come from the Center for Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University. (UK Article) A large number of illnesses…
By Kevin Roche I have run out of the adjectives to describe the idiotic responses to the epidemic. Those responses have contributed greatly to the current civil unrest. As I have mentioned before, perhaps the most important achievement of economic…