Today's Must-Reads - 16 April 2022

A selection of studies, reports and articles

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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.

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Climate change

• Rise of hard-right nationalists presents climate risk, experts warn

Covid

• SARS-CoV-2 spike protein functionally interacts with primary human conjunctival epithelial cells to induce a pro-inflammatory response

• Household transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from unvaccinated asymptomatic and symptomatic household members with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection: an antibody-surveillance study

• Covid China: Elderly deaths contradict Shanghai figures

• Study: Inflammation, not the virus itself, causes COVID-19-related loss of smell

• Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) infection by a highly potent pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitor targeting its spike protein that harbors a high capacity to mediate membrane fusion

• No more PCR nose swabs? FDA approves first COVID breath test in US

Covid Mandates

• Shanghai Extends Lockdown for Two Weeks Raising Concerns of Virus’ Virulence; CDC drops COVID-test Requirement for Shanghai Arrivals

• Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on Canadians, Forces report says

• ‘People feel abandoned’: as masks come off, thousands of Australians feel scared to go out

• Starting first Covid lockdown a week earlier ‘could have led to 34,000 fewer deaths’

• Sweden’s inconvenient Covid victory. Were millions of people denied freedom for nothing?

Finance

Timmy O' Toole @timmyotoole23

@gbponz @INArteCarloDoss Let them eat Hermes scarfs

Health

• Neurogenesis: Can Psilocybin Help Grow Your Brain Cells?

Politics

• No, maths is not racist. Durham University’s plans to ‘decolonise’ maths are absurd.

• All new cars could be fitted with 'Big Brother' speed limiters that set off alarms or reduce engine power under plans to fall in line with controversial EU ruling

• Backlash as Home Office staff are told to add their pronouns to work emails and state whether they want to be called he, she or they

• Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources

• Off-duty cops in NJ can smoke weed without getting fired

Priti Patel @pritipatel

Our new partnership with Rwanda shows we can no longer accept the status quo. People are dying and the global migration crisis requires us to find new ways to work in partnership. It will deal a major blow to the evil people smugglers. This is what it means 👇🏽

Science

• People are begging scientists not to open a mysterious sarcophagus discovered at Notre Dame

• Scientists find 'missing-link' black hole hiding in plain sight

Velina Tchakarova @vtchakarova

I knew it’s coming #Robotics

Ukraine

• Retired Swiss Military-Intelligence Officer: 'Is it Possible to Actually Know What Has Been And is Going on in Ukraine?'

Vaccines

• Scientists discover world's first cure for heart attacks using the same mRNA technology as Covid vaccines

• Leading Australian cardiologist SLAMS push for mRNA vaccines

• Examining COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections by Type of Vaccine Received

Law-or-Fiction @laworfiction

Brilliant @MarkSteynOnline with Queensland Australia Senator Malcolm Roberts speaking the unspeakable. Daring to talk of data showing fertility risk and ask questions (that JCVI and @sajidjavid studiously seek to avoid answering in the legal challenge for 5-11s)