Jon Sanders

All things considered, about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most had never had and the rest had recovered from.

A bill before the General Assembly would restore the state's protection of North Carolina's top stakeholders in electricity policy: the consumers. Such protection is absolutely vital.

Incidentally, should one-fifth of North Carolinians exercise their freedom of choice (see note below) and choose not to take a Covid vaccine, it would pose no threat to our society.

Such debate from their elected representatives over a potential major change is exactly what people should be able to expect.

Given this understanding, Gov. Roy Cooper's remarks at his press briefing April 6 were all the more bizarre.

Case declines in Texas, Mississippi, and other states that got rid of strict executive orders to "fight" COVID-19 is publicly ripping off "the mask of the All-Wise Central Planner who can dictate even the progress of a virus." How? By showing that the case declines are "consistent with natural seasonality as well as expanding natural immunity along with vaccine-induced immunity …, the natural progress of the virus, not with mask mandates."

All things considered, about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone — a virus most had never had and the rest had recovered from.

"Top German scientists have found that wearing certain types of face masks for long periods of time could result in potentially hazardous chemicals and harmful microplastics being inhaled deep into human lungs."