Jon Sanders

All considered, about 99.5% 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.

Since we're forbidden to credit seasonality, I think I've come up with a better spurious explanation for falling cases than the masks and other restrictions. The more people are spending money on Valentine's gifts, the fewer new cases of COVID-19 there are.

Research estimates that for each $100 million or so in regulatory costs, there will be one expected death due to an impoverishment effect.

All considered, about 99.4% 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.

Aristotle would have warned WRAL about this. “Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor,” he said, “for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”

All considered, about 99.3% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone.

What changed between 2014 and now? Why is it no longer better to come down on the side of consumers?

Yesterday, Jan. 27, Cooper issued another Executive Order that added a new section of justifications, clearly spurred by the lawsuit.