The last 2.5 years of the pandemic have been dominated by unelected medical bureaucrats making proclamations about lockdowns, social distancing, mask wearing, and other draconian measures based on dogma not data. They are in positions of power in the 3-letter agencies of the NIH, FDA, CDC and WHO with unchecked influence over elected government officials...
The mainstream media, and apparently academic-types, decided to cower from a study showing lockdowns had little consequence in curbing infections during the ongoing pandemic. Researchers, Carolina Journal reported, found lockdowns “have had little to no public health effects” while imposing “enormous economic and social costs” and should be “rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.” Neither...
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...
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...
“The day the music died.” I thought about that song a lot last year. The music didn’t die then, exactly, but rather faded like that final guitar riff, the one before the band waves and turns its collective back on the crowd, who stay hoping the lights don’t come on. Not yet, they plead. One...
America has largely moved on from COVID-19, even as much of the world is still deep in its throes. Thing is, many politicians in the U.S., as well as left-leaning media outlets, would have us believe otherwise. Sure, in their heart of hearts, they want COVID to go away, for the world to truly move...
It seems Gov. Roy Cooper doesn’t get out much, meaning outside North Carolina. A quick trip to South Carolina, for instance, would show a sense of freedom unavailable — from my experience — in Wilmington, Boone, or Raleigh. Wearing a mask is a personal choice. But I can’t get my head around the need to...
North Carolina has an opportunity. Meaning North Carolina as a whole, but also as a sum of its complex and diverse parts. Gov. Roy Cooper has taken much from us, decisions made and edicts issued because of the COVID-19 pandemic. I’ve said this before. But Cooper, by deciding against taking even more, in an odd...
A recent study by RunRepeat found America is fat and getting fatter. Government edicts are making things worse for most of us. We’re already eating food that’s bad for us, and we’re eating bigger portions of it. Too much sugar, too much bad fat. Too little exercise. So, we’re both fat and lazy. Again, not...
Imagine being quarantined and your family, friends, and coworkers needlessly alerted and scared because you tested positive for a scrap of unviable genetic material. You thought you had a dangerous virus, but you didn’t. Without a doubt, it’s happened all across North Carolina, except that the victims never find out about that last bit. These...
North Carolina continues to grapple with COVID-19. During the early days of the pandemic, the state’s strategy was clear. North Carolina, like other states, needed to restrict movements and interactions to reduce the rate of the spread of the virus. No one seriously thought the virus could be stopped, but by “flattening the curve” at...
