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. Usually, this is for paid subscribers only but today it is a slimmed down version for everyone. Please consider taking out a paid subscription because it enables me to spend longer reporting on the news that isn’t, but should be reported.
Covid
medRxiv - Monitoring of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.1/BA.2 variant transition in the Swedish population reveals higher viral quantity in BA.2 cases.
EPPC - CDC Tells New York Times It Hid Covid Data For Political Reasons.
National Pulse - Fauci’s COVID-Origin Allies, the EcoHealth Alliance, Boosted Investment Income by 350% Since Pre-Pandemic.
BMJ - Covid-19: US tracker overestimated deaths among children.
Spectator - Evidence of Uyghur slave-made masks found in NHS.
Guardian - How do you stop fake news about Covid? Not by silencing scientists who ask difficult questions. Whatever Twitter was doing when it banned the Oxford epidemiologist Carl Heneghan, it wasn’t protecting the world from disinformation.
bioRxiv - Shifting mutational constraints in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domain during viral evolution.
Cureus - COVID-19-Associated Encephalitis: Two Case Reports.
Covid Mandates
Telegraph - Protests grow against China’s zero-Covid lockdowns. Video in Shanghai shows people demanding 'freedom' as workers in China go unpaid and people lose access to food.
Zero Hedge - Fed Finally Admits That COVID Stimulus Is Responsible For Hottest Inflation In A Generation.
Technocracy - How The C-Suite Embraced Lockdowns And Economic War. C-Suite are those execs whose titles start with “C”, such as CEO, CFO, etc. Global corporations have been lured into policies and actions that are destructive to shareholder value. I will suggest this is the irresistible Siren call of Technocracy, beckoning the ships to head for the rocks.” ⁃ TN Editor.
UnHerd - For pro-lockdown campaigners, all roads lead to the Kochs. The attempts to smear critics of lockdowns as Right-wingers will only backfire.
Guardian - The ‘zero-Covid’ approach got bad press, but it worked – and it could work again.
Summit - Health Minister Fears Wave of Unvaccinated Ukrainian Refugees Entering Germany.
Spiked - The tragic folly of lockdown. Data on excess deaths show that countries that locked down hard fared no better than those that didn't.
Finance
FT - Britons face ‘historic shock’ to their incomes, Bank of England governor warns.
Health
The Covid Blog - Two young European competitive cyclists die suddenly, another suffers heart attack at finish line in last two weeks.
Politics
Ukraine
Daily Mail - Two Russian fighter jets that violated Swedish airspace earlier this month 'were equipped with NUKES with the aim of scaring Stockholm' after Putin had threatened military action if Sweden or Finland joined NATO.
Russia’s war of aggression against #Ukraine is a criminal offense. Anyone publicly approving the war may be liable to prosecution in Germany. This applies to using the "Z" symbol, too. German security authorities are keeping an eye on the use of the symbol. - Ministry of Interior https://t.co/diQEgGwR7aDer russische Angriffskrieg gegen die #Ukraine ist eine Straftat. Wer diesen Angriffskrieg öffentlich billigt, kann sich strafbar machen. Das gilt auch für das Zeigen des „#Z“-Symbols. Die Sicherheitsbehörden des Bundes haben die Verwendung des Symbols im Blick.Bundesministerium des Innern und für Heimat @BMI_Bund
Vaccines
UBC Science - New nasal spray treats Delta variant infection in mice, indicating broad spectrum results.
Epoch Times - ‘100 Percent’ Vaccinated Cruise Ship Hit With COVID-19 Outbreak.
JPEDS - Persistent Cardiac MRI Findings in a Cohort of Adolescents with post COVID-19 mRNA vaccine myopericarditis.
Cell - Boosting with variant-matched or historical mRNA vaccines protects against Omicron infection in mice.
ah yes the push for green energy. the next Plandemic. I read somewhere (and i need to confirm) that Mastercard is already working with governments and companies to deny people the ability to purchase goods based on carbon caps. Here is an article, but again, need to confirm its authenticity. It wouldn't surprise me in the least though. We're heading for international social credit scores after all: https://www.capoliticalreview.com/capoliticalnewsandviews/new-mastercard-to-monitor-cardholders-carbon-footprint-cap-purchases/
Any other possible response except "Geez we're fucked (for now)?"