Today's Must-Reads - 29 October 2022 & the European Medicines Agency finally acknowledges menstrual side effects
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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But first, it’s not like the European Medicines Agency (EMA) should know about these things before the rest of Joe public but in an update yesterday they added heavy menstrual bleeding as a side effect. Almost two years after this information started to come out, the EMA said this side effect should be added to the product information for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccine.
However, they sounded reluctant. “A reasonable possibility...bleeding is causally associated with these vaccines”. “Mostly cases which appeared to be non-serious and temporary.”
Climate Change
WaPo - E.U. plans for only electric new vehicles by 2035 ‘without precedent’.
Covid
Wiley - Excess risk for acute myocardial infarction mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Science - Conduct probe exonerates scientist accused of obscuring pandemic‘s origin. National Academy of Medicine rejects Republican allegations against member Peter Daszak.
ProPublica - COVID-19 Origins: Investigating a “Complex and Grave Situation” Inside a Wuhan Lab. The Wuhan lab at the center of suspicions about the pandemic’s onset was far more troubled than known, documents unearthed by a Senate team reveal. Tracing the evidence, Vanity Fair and ProPublica give the clearest view yet of a biocomplex in crisis.
Covid Mandates
Global News - Order to lift mask mandate in Alberta schools ‘unreasonable’: judge. The order to remove masking in schools from Alberta’s chief medical officer of health has been found to be “unreasonable” by an Alberta judge. That same justice also found a subsequent letter to school boards from the education minister was “not a regulation” and caused “widespread misunderstanding” whether it was a prohibition of masking.
PBS - COVID-19 pandemic massively set back learning, especially for high-poverty areas. The COVID-19 pandemic devastated poor children’s well-being, not just by closing their schools, but also by taking away their parents’ jobs, sickening their families and teachers, and adding chaos and fear to their daily lives.
Independent - Fears Covid surge will force care homes to impose harsh visiting restrictions this winter. Families are still facing a ‘postcode lottery’ of Covid restrictions in care homes and hospital.
Economy/Energy/Finance
Coindesk - Central Bank of Turkey Plans to Launch a CBDC in 2023. It will be integrated with the country’s digital identity system and instant payments service.
Telegraph - Business insolvencies surge 40pc in wake of Covid. Economic turmoil is expected to spur an even larger wave of bankruptcies over the next year.
Business Standard - Japan unveils $200 billion in new spending to ease inflation pain. Fiscal spending under the package will total 39 trillion yen ($260 billion), funded by an extra budget of 29.6 trillion yen ($201 billion).
Guardian - Don’t blame Joe Biden for high inflation.
Politics
NFCW - Austria begins rollout of digital IDs for contactless identity checking. The Austrian government is enabling residents to create and store a digital version of their driving licence on their Apple or Android smartphone as a first step towards rolling out “as many digital ID cards and documents on mobile phones as possible”.
NY Times - Federal Judge Allows Activists to Stake Out Ballot Boxes in Arizona
Judge Michael T. Liburdi said activists have a First Amendment right to gather around ballot boxes in the state. Voting rights groups called the tactic voter intimidation.
Zero Hedge - Soros Tops The List Of Midterm Election Mega-Donors. George Soros, the Hungarian Holocaust surviver and philanthropist, is by far the biggest donor in the United States midterm elections, according to data by the Federal Election Commission.
Vaccines
NIH [2018] - A novel mRNA modification may impact the human genetic code.
Miami Herald - Feeling sick after your COVID shot is a good sign, study finds. Here’s what it means.
BBC - India vaccine maker destroys 100 million doses of expired Covid jab. "The booster vaccines have no demand as people now seem fed up with Covid," Mr Poonawala told reporters on Thursday. "Honestly, I'm also fed up. We all are."
According to Mr Poonawala, the SII had around 100 million doses of Covishield in stock. The vaccines - which have a shelf life of nine months - expired in September this year.
Appears we have got ourselves (the entire planet) in very hot water. The boiling frogs analogy fits well here. This is a very good collection and proof positive of why we need to help each other be more skeptical and develop better BS detectors as citizens. How many knew in 2020 without verification that ventilators and strong sedatives were the problem? How many had at least a skeptical first response to Elon's motivations? This could be an entire post so I'll stop here.
Comments on a couple of articles:
The Wiley one on myocarditis during pandemic: I couldn't open the article so I couldn't read the entire article, but I agree that there appears to be more myocarditis during the pandemic, but is it from Covid, the vaccine or both? The article appeared to be attributing the cause to Covid.
Guardian article on Biden and inflation: Excess monetary spending put us in this mess. We need to vote Republican to stop the excess spending, including the random, buy vote student loan forgiveness program.