Opinion

COVID is here to stay, so let’s start dealing with it

It’s well past time to try a different approach with COVID, and the Omicron variant in particular. The mainstream media must adjust its reporting, as well, to reflect reality and, well, to infuse some common sense. To stop reporting the rise in cases and hospitalizations, because both are skewed and fundamentally inaccurate. It’s one thing...

John Trump
Opinion

We have much fear already, so stop trying to create angst, uncertainty

We have so much to fear. From an innumerable list of things natural and manmade. If that is, we choose to effectually succumb to the doubt and the uncertainty. The mainstream media, in fact, encapsulates that fear and profits from it, driving ratings and online viewership. Niche websites, coming from all directions, do much of...

John Trump
Opinion

Omicron: Choosing pragmatism over panic and fear

Our response to the Omicron variant can go a couple of ways. We can remain calm and let this latest strain run its course. Or, as Democrats and mainstream media are wont to do, we can overreact and spread fear. I’d like to think Americans, in general, have had enough, and that they’ll hold politicians...

John Trump
News

As Cooper pushes vaccines, Cohen says she has no plans to seek elected office

Gov. Roy Cooper and state health secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen addressed the nascent Omicron variant Tuesday, Nov. 30, but they were reticent to raise alarms, in contrast to local media reports over the past couple of days. Rather, they pushed vaccines. Cohen, in one of her last COVID-19 briefings alongside Cooper, even offered a novel...

John Trump

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