Thank you, Mike. You have been a wonderful leader for your group at the Health Dept. and for Chatham County. This has been a trying year; all of us trying to stay alive against the onslaught of a new disease, caused by a new virus that none of us knewContinue Reading
Recently there has been a lot of chatter, here and elsewhere, about the desire, some would say need, to reopen schools and put all the kids back in the centralized classrooms. Why now? What’s changed? Certainly not the landscape around the risks of getting infected with SARS-CoV2. Teachers are, maybe,Continue Reading
Hi all,I am responding as President of the Pittsboro Business Association (PBA). We are the organizers of First Sunday. Andrea asks when First Sunday will return. Good question. PBA is awaiting the town’s decision as to when they will again give us a permit to conduct First Sundays and anyContinue Reading
As you can tell, I frequent local “discounters.” The other day at the lower Habitat store, I heard a front-line worker there commandingly say, “Sir, will you please pull your mask up over your nose.” He was appropriately assertive causing me to start, but only momentarily – my mask asContinue Reading
Not seen yet for all the covid 19 health Risks is the warning to not pick your nose especially when shopping, driving, or been 5 minutes since thorough hand washing. This is not Jerry Seinfeld comedy where he was caught socially picking his bore driving. Credit card key pads andContinue Reading
I thought we were avoiding non Chatham centric posts like Beldar’s interpretation of a poorly done study that attempted to contradict the well done study at Brigham hospital in Boston. No wonder this was rejected by competent journals. Here follows my op-ed from the Chatham News; knowledge about SARS-CoV-2 theContinue Reading
The first randomized controlled trial1,2 to assess the effectiveness of surgical face masks against SARS-CoV-2 infection specifically — which journals initially refused to publish — is finally seeing the light of day. The so-called “Danmask-19 Trial,” published November 18, 2020, in the Annals of Internal Medicine,3 included 3,030 individuals assignedContinue Reading
Mark is correct. If you don’t want to catch SARS-CoV-2, and it is a nasty bug, avoid local businesses were customers or staff are not masked, and patronize stores where all are masked. AND wear your mask when around others; wash your hands; keep your distance from others when you areContinue Reading
It’s sad, but not surprising, that wearing masks indoors, in public, is still controversial. Last spring, there was heated debate on this site about the efficacy of masks. Since then, SCIENCE has shown that masks, along with distancing and handwashing, to be THE MOST EFFECTIVE means of slowing the spreadContinue Reading
I live in Pittsboro, and I wish to reflect on the positive things which have happened in the last months: (this is not to diminish the tragic things that have happened, but I choose to think about the pluses and not the minuses) Cheaper Gas than I have seen inContinue Reading
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 15:45:43 -0400From: “John Dykers M.D.”Subject: Re: info about virus not enough tests. CDC Actually limited testing to the very sick to conserve supply. There were still a lot of tests done with a surprisingly small proportion REPORTED as POS. The reports did not SAY theContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 22:20:09 -0400From: “John Dykers M.D.”Subject: Sunshine and COVID19 -RickJoy’s post Thank you for your link; I checked it. The weatherman explained about the atmosphere filtering out 95% of the sun’s ultraviolet radiation. If it did not, we would all be toast! Rick is certainly correctContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 16:27:58 +0000From: Michael Barnes Subject: Howard Lively’s Post in Chalist 6663 I want to thank Howard Lively for his post. Here is part of it: A front line doctor in NYC recent said that 99% of the COVID19 cases can be eliminated with 2 simplyContinue Reading
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 13:44:06 +0000From: Michael Barnes Subject: Corona Advice from a Retired Respiratory Therapist CORONA Common Sense from a retired respiratory therapist (edited for spelling and clarity) Since they are calling on Respiratory therapist to help fight the Corona virus, and I am a retired one, tooContinue Reading
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2020 11:01:43 -0400From: Richard Zobel <>Subject: Cotton Fabric Masks My wife is making masks that are win/win. She will give you a mask for a donation that will be matched by my grandson – up to a total of $1,000, and all of the donations willContinue Reading