Making a killing: it turns out there’s an upside to the pandemic for some…
Gwyneth Paltrow, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Chartwells… the stakes are high when it comes to profiteering from the pandemic
Is… is Gwyneth Paltrow saying we can cure long Covid with an $8,600 snake necklace? In her latest Goop post, “Healing My Body With a Longer Term Detox”, she consults with a doctor about her brain fog and long-tail fatigue after contracting Covid-19. I say doctor – this is one of her favourite experts Will Cole, a vaccine-sceptic who received his chiropractic doctorate from (in the words of Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? author Professor Tim Caulfield’s words) a “woo factory”. She follows his method of “intuitive fasting” (book available to buy now) cooking only in the afternoon, “using lots of coconut aminos”, avoiding alcohol by drinking Seedlip (available to buy) from a glass ($112), taking a lot of supplements (subscribe for discounts), using a sauna blanket ($500) and hiking to “sweat out the toxins” in an outfit that includes 1 x $8,600 snake oil, sorry, snake necklace.
Gwyneth Gwyneth Gwyneth, what are we to do with you? Her cheeky monkeying knows no bounds, and yet, despite its rose-scented shamelessness, I do not have it in me right now to be angry with her. Will I tut? Sure. Will I shake my head with a wry smile, as I stumble through the carpeted corridors of her website, opening a door to find a screaming woman being suffocated with a cashmere scarf ($410) before apologising and closing it again quietly? Yes. Will I pause The Talented Mr Ripley on a still of her face and ask it repeatedly why she gave up a life of art to shill crystals by telling sad women lies about whether death exists? Possibly. But will I get angry? I will not.
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