03/28/2024
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Reopen NC is a grassroots movement comprised of NC residents. Started as a Facebook group, we have 22 thousand members to date and are growing rapidly! We are Moms and Dads, employees and business owners, doctors and nurses, plumbers and electricians; people from all walks of life. We are an action group working towards a mutual goal to Reopen NC by no later than May 1, 2020. Our resounding message to Governor Cooper and our elected officials is clear: End the Shutdown. We demand our rights be restored in full.

All across our great state, from small towns to big cities, you don’t have to look far to see closed businesses and frustrated, concerned citizens. These hard working North Carolina business owners and their employees have built prosperity and stability for themselves and positively affected their communities in a way that only “small Mom & Pop” businesses can. Their right to work and to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is being infringed upon every single day that Governor Cooper keeps our state shuttered. Their stories are heart wrenching. Our economy cannot sustain this.

The scientific data being released does not support a continued shutdown of our state. A vast majority of NC hospitals are nowhere near capacity and many are furloughing their healthcare staff. States that have not enforced such draconian Shutdowns as Cooper has with his Executive Orders have not had worse outcomes than NC. Residents are smart enough, and more importantly, have the right to decide their own comfort level with any and all pathogens and viruses, just like we have done for every other illness that has come through our state and nation.

The group stated, “Cooper is not a King and we are not his subjects. He is an elected official granted his power only by the vote of the people. WE THE PEOPLE will be heard, Reopen NC!”

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