Today's Must-Reads - 1 February 2023

A selection of the latest news, studies, reports and articles

I spend a lot of time each day gathering together new information and interesting articles. I then pick one or two of the most interesting topics and write about them. However, that leaves a lot of missed out information that I’m not sharing.

Below is a summary of all the latest articles and information that I’ve found. Today, this is a slimmed down version for all subscribers but will be for paid subscribers only a lot of the time in the future.

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Climate Change

• Looking slightly insane, Karl Lauterbach, the German Health Minister tells an interviewer that Covid restrictions should be retained to contain climate change. Of course, travelling less is part of his plan (you not him). He can’t even rule out prohibiting certain things during a climate crisis. However, if you criticise his plans you are a conspiracy theorist.

Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec

Here is the German Minister of Health, Karl Lauterbach, paving the way for "climate lockdowns" using Covid as an example. You'll go nowhere and you'll be happy.

Covid Mandates & Lockdowns

• A new assessment of studies looking at at whether physical interventions interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses concluded what we all already know.

Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of influenza‐like illness (ILI)/COVID‐19 like illness compared to not wearing masks (risk ratio (RR) 0.95, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.84 to 1.09; 9 trials, 276,917 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence. Wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratory‐confirmed influenza/SARS‐CoV‐2 compared to not wearing masks (RR 1.01, 95% CI 0.72 to 1.42; 6 trials, 13,919 participants; moderate‐certainty evidence)

• For some entertaining viewing watch Matt Hancock get roasted on Good Morning Britain. Former health secretary Hancock was in charge of draconian policies during the pandemic which he then broke himself. It seems you need morning TV presenters to make the man squirm, rather than political interviews who always let him easily wriggle out of any difficult questions.

Good Morning Britain @GMB

'The guidelines were in place and I accept that I broke the guidelines. But I didn't break the law.' @MattHancock @susannareid100 questions the former Health Secretary on whether he broke the law when he breached Covid rules.

• Matt also went on the TV show “I’m a Celebrity” for a tidy sum of £320,000. When asked why he was still being paid as an MP but not actually doing his job he claimed this was to raise money for charity. Turns out he only gave £10,000 to charity.

Good Morning Britain @GMB

'Are you telling the truth when you say that [money] wasn't your primary motivation?' - @susannareid100 @MattHancock says he didn't do I'm a Celebrity 'primarily' for the money and he gave £10,000 to charity. The former Health Secretary was paid £320,000 for his appearance.

Economy/Energy/Finance

• Paypal are laying off 2,000 employees, which amount to around 7% of its staff. More signs that 2023 will be a difficult financial year, whatever the markets are indicating.

Health

• The company that owns Banana Boat is recalling its sunscreen products due to the presence of a cancer-causing chemical. Benzene in the propellant has been found to cause bone marrow to not produce enough red blood cells, cause the loss of white blood cells and damage the immune system.

• MSNBC host, Yasmin Vossoughian, returned to the screen after developing myocarditis caused by a cold. Yep, I just checked it again, it was definitely a cold that caused this fit and healthy young woman to get myocarditis.

James Cintolo, RN FN CPT @healthbyjames

🚨BREAKING — Fully Vaccinated MSNBC Host Yasmin Vossoughian Develops Myocarditis And Blames It All On “A Cold”

• As is being seen across Europe, Ireland is experiencing excess death rate spikes. On Newstalk Breakfast, Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín said the figures point towards “something very, very serious that is happening”. There have been 9,718 deaths in eight weeks to 25 January which is up 20% on the previous year.

• New UK government data shows how abnormal 2022 was. Although still incomplete, the graph for scarlet fever in children shows the consequences of lockdowns, vaccines or both.

Vaccines

• Sales at Pfizer continue to rise with a record $100 billion revenue in 2022. This includes $37.8 billion for its Covid vaccines. Paxlovid sales also contributed to the record income, with $18.9 billion in sales.

• This will only continue whilst news outlets such as the NY Times recommend more vaccines because the vaccines don’t work.

In the following months, the protection offered by recent vaccinations or immunity developed from infections will wear off, exposing people to renewed risks from Covid unless they receive more shots. There is also the potential danger of new subvariants, possibly less virulent but more transmissible.

• After Project Veritas’ Directed Evolution honey trap, YouTube have issued “Urgent Guidance” to employees on how to handle the video. As of 27 January 2023, the video violates the “COVID-19 misinformation policy”.

• Dr Paul Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccine Advisory Committee, said there is “certainly a causal ink between vaccinations and myocarditis and pericarditis, no doubt about it…it may be the spike protein mimics proteins on heart cells”. This means you inadvertently make an immune response to your own heart muscle.

Chief Nerd @TheChiefNerd

😳 NEW — Dr. Paul Offit Says There “Certainly is a Causal Link Between Vaccination & Myo/Pericarditis” “It may be the spike protein mimics one of the proteins on heart muscle cells…if that’s true then…you’re also inadvertently making immune response to your own heart muscle.”