Today's Must-Reads - 4 June 2022
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. Today, this is for all subscribers but will be for paid subscribers only a lot of the time in the future.
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Climate Change
ZME Science - Replacing half the meat we eat with edible insects could could save a third of the world’s farmlands.
Covid
Guardian - Why did Covid disappear from our collective consciousness so quickly?
NIH - SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Persistence Throughout the Human Body and Brain.
Guardian - Is the Covid pandemic finally nearing its end? The virus’s behaviour in highly vaccinated countries may offer clues to our future with the disease.
Covid Mandates
Independent - Germany seeks to avoid school closures if COVID surges again. Germany’s federal and state leaders have agreed to try to avoid closing schools and child care facilities if there is another surge in coronavirus cases this fall.
Tablet Mag - The COVID Cult Did Lasting Damage to Our Kids. New ‘discoveries’ of the harm caused by school closures are as disingenuous and politically motivated as the original policies themselves.
Washington Post - Italy lifts all pandemic entry restrictions. Foreign visitors no longer have to prove they are protected against the coronavirus.
Gov.UK - The government has just quietly withdrawn all C19 healthcare setting guidance.
Zero Hedge - "The Nightmare Has Ended": Shanghai Reopens After Two-Month COVID Lockdown.
Daily Mail - Lockdown toll on heart health laid bare: Cardiac deaths rose 17% globally during pandemic, ambulance waits rose by an hour and 34% fewer life-saving operations were carried out.
Brownstone - Why Did Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?
9News - Shanghai neighbourhoods return to lockdown a day after restrictions eased.
Economics/Finance
Bloomberg - One-Third of Americans Making $250,000 Live Paycheck-to-Paycheck, Survey Finds.
USA Today - ‘Profiting from pain’: Covid-19 pandemic creates new billionaire every 30 hours, says Oxfam WEF 2022 report.
WSJ - An Old Way to Fight Inflation Gets New Fans. Is it time for the U.S. government to impose price controls? History shows that past attempts to rein in rampant inflation with such measures have sometimes worked—when there’s a national will to see them succeed.
World Grain - China official says wheat crop may be ‘worst in history’.
WSJ - Twitter Says Antitrust Waiting Period for Elon Musk Deal Has Passed. Deal still has to go to social-media company’s shareholders for a vote.
Health
NEJM - Neoantigen T-Cell Receptor Gene Therapy in Pancreatic Cancer.
NY Post - Urgent warning to women under 40 after sharp rise in sudden killer.
FDA - Investigating Viruses in Cells Used to Make Vaccines; and Evaluating the Potential Threat Posed by Transmission of Viruses to Humans.
Metro - ‘Nose-bleed virus’ spread by ticks kills 18 and is spreading.
Politics
National Post - Federal ethics commissioner flooded with emails calling for investigation into WEF conspiracy. The messages accuse Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland and other MPs of being under the shadowy influence of the World Economic Forum.
Country Squire - Has Woke Won?
Time For Recovery - Seven Reasons the Government should not sign a WHO Pandemic Treaty.
Off-Guardian - The REAL agenda behind the created food crisis.
Daily Beast - Tesla Paid a PR Firm to Monitor Employees Online in 2017 and 2018: Report.
Conservative Belief - Supreme Court Allows Republican Congressional Map to Stand.
Tech Wire Asia - Singapore cloned to be world’s largest digital twin country.
Ukraine
The Gray Zone - A new generation of US-trained extremists is fighting Russia. Are we prepared for the blowback?
Vaccines
GatesNotes - Vaccinate the world in six months. To prevent pandemics, we need to be able to do it. Here's how.
NY Times - Youngest Children Could Get Covid Shots in Late June, White House Says. President Biden’s coronavirus response coordinator shared the timeline in anticipation of federal regulators authorizing coronavirus vaccines for children younger than 5.
Nature - High viral loads: what drives fatal cases of COVID-19 in vaccinees? – an autopsy study.
Washington Post - Vaccines may not prevent many symptoms of long covid, study suggests.
Gates: "The creation of the first mRNA vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic was a big step forward. They work by delivering genetic code to your body that instructs it to make shapes that look like the weak part of the virus."
Is he more or less a psychopath than Biden, who wants to covidvax kids under 5? Gates writes, or his writers write, like they are talking to idiots.
I repeat: I AM NOT EATING BUGS.