Economy
Biden Extends National Covid Emergency
President Donald Trump had declared a national emergency, which allowed the freeing up of about $50 billion in federal aid.
Energy
EU’s Rebranding Of Natural Gas And Nuclear Power As ‘Green Investments’ Could Not Come At A Better Time
Earlier this month, the European Commission presented a plan to change the ‘taxonomy’ of green investments to include natural gas and nuclear energy. This would be a boon for EU energy security.
Health
NPA to file amended lawsuit against FDA in NAC dispute
NPA sued FDA in December over its position that NAC (N-acetyl-L-cysteine) cannot be marketed in dietary supplements. According to FDA, NAC is excluded from the definition of a dietary supplement because it was first approved as a drug in 1963.
Omicron a wolf in sheep’s clothing
Now that mass vaccination campaigns have quickly rendered the virus resistant to the adaptive immune response (cfr. Omicron), I am fearful that this may have a snowball effect. I’ve been postulating that the mechanism of innate immune adaptation to viral exposure (i.e., through a process of epigenetic changes referred to as ‘training’) is compromised in the vaccinated population and I am now predicting that the resulting burden of infectivity will cause massive population-level immune pressure on Omicron.
Censorship killed Facebook profile frames
Custom Facebook profile frames are no more.
Bill Gates says Covid risks have ‘dramatically reduced’ but another pandemic is coming
“We’ll have another pandemic. It will be a different pathogen next time,” Bill Gates told CNBC.
Resilience
Two healthy middle-aged females took daily antihistamines for long COVID
“The possibility that an easy-to-access, over-the-counter medication could ease some of the [long COVID] symptoms should offer hope to the estimated 54 million people worldwide who have been in distress for months or even years.”
Not Going to Be a ‘Punching Bag’ for the Police
As police in Ottawa escalated operations for the second day in a row against the trucker protest opposed to the government’s COVID-19 mandates, a spokesperson for the movement, dubbed the “Freedom Convoy,” called for a peaceful withdrawal, saying they are not going to be a “punching bag for law enforcement.”
The post Daily Digest 2/21 – National Emergency Extended; EU: NG and Nuclear are Now Green; Gates: Another Pandemic Coming; Ottawa: Truckers Withdraw After Police Violence appeared first on Peak Prosperity.
from Peak Prosperity https://ift.tt/ilGRuEy
