The number of coronavirus cases are still on the rise in North Carolina. In parallel, the economy is in free fall. The state unemployment rate has more than tripled since February, and 1 million peopl… Read More

The media is churning out countless alarmist stories each day about the threat of COVID-19 and the dangers of societal reopening. “Risk of new lockdown rises with fear of second COVID-19 wave,&#… Read More

In March, a report from Imperial College London concluded that 2.2 million Americans could die as a result of the coronavirus—a finding broadly advertised in the mainstream media. At the time, the pro… Read More

Every death is a tragedy, but we need to weigh the risks posed by the coronavirus with the risks of an economic shutdown. Right now, the scales are tipped too far in the direction of viral containment… Read More

Poor economic prospects create bad public health outcomes of their own. Depression, substance abuse, domestic violence, and alcoholism all rise with unemployment. Hard alcohol sales have risen by 75 p… Read More

Countless small businesses are boarded up and bankrupt. Many have been forced to move from quarantines to curfews. According to one survey, one-third of them won’t be able to reopen. These Ameri… Read More

More than 100,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. Beyond those deaths are other casualties of the pandemic — Americans seriously ill with other ailments who avoided care because they feared contrac… Read More

Over the last ten weeks, more than 40 million Americans have filed for unemployment benefits, and one-third of small businesses won’t reopen. These… Read More

Now that the coronavirus curve has flattened, state and county officials can safely reopen in time for summer before any more economic damage is done. Doing so will allow employers and employees to ea… Read More

Society needs to reopen and small businesses should be the number one priority. States and local governments across the country have already begun the process. Abiding by federal health and safety gui… Read More