Jon Sanders

Back in August 2020, I reviewed scientific research into the question of “asymptomatic transmission” of Covid-19. The concluding section of my review begins under the header “Your risk from a chance encounter is indistinguishable from zero.” Here is a relevant quotation: There’s nothing scientific about quarantining the healthy or…

All things considered, just over 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone. It's well, well, well past time for the governor to end this open-ended "emergency" rule. 

A bill before the General Assembly would address what's known as regulatory dark matter. It would make executive agencies bring their unseen rules into the light as rules.

NC has been achieving Cooper's abandoned reopening metrics. Cooper had said his orders were just until we had a vaccine. Now he's saying wait till two-thirds of people are vaccinated. Reports are that probably won't happen, certainly not any time soon.

It's been over a year. It's well, well, well past time for the governor to end this open-ended "emergency" rule. 

It's a disturbing act for a president to beat back transparency and restore ruling in the shadows by guidance documents, interpretive statements, memos, and other things never formally introduced as rules.

Should the bill become law, cities could no longer create new local occupational licenses for handyman services.

Still about 99.8% of people in NC posed no threat of passing along COVID-19 to anyone, and the media and Cooper need to stop pretending "reopening metrics" the governor made up on the fly are somehow forcing him not to reopen the state.