Today's Must-Reads & Substacks- 18 February 2022

A selection of 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 over the past few days. Today, I have included my favourite Substacks on here too.

As you can imagine, this all takes a long time so please share and consider a paid subscription.

Climate

Mythinformed MKE @MythinformedMKE

Staying true to his word, Joe Rogan brought Andrew Dessler the “other side” on to represent the mainstream narrative on climate science. When asked if he would ever debate Dessler states “I won’t debate the science, the science is set”. Sound familiar?

Covid

Science Direct - Immunocompromised children and young people are at no increased risk of severe COVID-19.

OC Register - Lab studies point to signs of severity in BA.2 subvariant of Omicron.

Nature - Glycan reactive anti-HIV-1 antibodies bind the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein but do not block viral entry.

Glasgow Times - Covid data will not be published over concerns it's misrepresented by anti-vaxxers.

Zenodo - Anomalies in BatCoV/RaTG13 sequencing and provenance.

CDC @CDCgov

Remember that #COVID19 nose swab test you took? What happened to the swab? If it was processed with a PCR test, there’s a 10% chance that it ended up in a lab for genomic sequencing analysis. Learn more about the process and its importance: bit.ly/3sJOkoC @WIRED @CDC_AMD

bit.lyHow Nose Swabs Detect New Covid-19 Strains | WIREDScientists from around the world are using nose swabs to track the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants. Here’s how it works.Still haven’t subscribed to WIRED on...

Substack - Unreported Truths - Alex looks at a RCT showing that Ivermectin increased the risk of Covid by 25%.

Substack - Unacceptable Jessica looks at another paper showing Ivermectin works - so confusing!

Substack - Voice for Science - Omicron a wolf in sheep's clothing. Will Omicron induce herd immunity or will it enable SARS-CoV-2 to transition into variants capable of potentiating ADE in vaccinees?‍

Covid Mandates

BBC Video - What's life like for unvaccinated people in the UK?

True North @TrueNorthCentre

Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland: "The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen."

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

Jacinda Ardern complains her political opponents are motivated by “disinformation.” Ardern’s spent 2 years pursuing a strict Zero Covid strategy on the idea that China eliminated COVID by shutting down wuhan for 2 months. Cases in NZ now at all-time highs.

Tom Elliott @tomselliott

Despite science, Dr. Fauci claims “it is risky” to stop forcing kids to wear facemasks "It’s understandable why people want to take masks off the kids. But, right now, given the level of activity that we have, it is risky.”

Sheila Gunn Reid @SheilaGunnReid

Take a listen to this. This is Trudeau empathizing with the Boston bombers (who were actual terrorist murderers). He calls for togetherness, belonging, understanding. Now compare that to how he treats grandmothers who disagree with him. He invoked a terror law on them.

Michael P Senger @MichaelPSenger

Speaking about Italy’s new strict vaccine mandate which has left hundreds of thousands of citizens over 50 with no work or salary, Prime Minister Mario Draghi says “The unvaccinated are not part of our society.” Chilling.

Fox News - Twitter allows hacked info of Canadian Freedom Convoy donors after suppressing Hunter Biden laptop story.

Justin Hart @justin_hart

Wow! School board freaks out as mom whips out phone to show pictures of the board members maskless online. Love this.

Bernie's Tweets @BernieSpofforth

AUSTRALIA - The vaccinated become the unvaccinated, as parents who aren’t boosted are banned from schools. Life by State permission. Because you allowed it! #COVID19 #Australia

Substack - Michael Tracey - NJ Ditched Its “Vaccine Passport” After I Told the Mayor Nobody Was Enforcing It.

Substack - Unmasked - Justin Trudeau Destroyed Canada to Extend Policies That Have Already Failed. Yet another entry in pointless discrimination and division due to COVID policy.

Finance

Devdiscourse - FBI to form new digital currency unit as Justice Dept taps new crypto czar.

Substack - Edward Slavsquat - The digital ruble: Economic sovereignty or enslavement? The Bank of Russia's programmable digital fiat has received mixed reviews.

Science

Physics - Detecting the Rotation of a Quantum Spin. Researchers detected the effect of rotating a crystal on the spin of an embedded particle, a result that could lead to ultrasensitive rotation sensors.

Substack - Eugyppius - Why People Believe Wrong Things.

Politics

Telegraph - Boris is about to make Nick Clegg one of the most powerful men in Britain. The Government’s Online Harms Bill gives Big Tech too much power to censor opinions it does not like.

Ukraine

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald

Amazing interview with of the former MI6 chief with the Atlantic Council's @b_judah (the whole gang present) where the intel goon *admits* that many western "intel leaks" media outlets are dutifully conveying aren't real leaks but propaganda messages designed to undercut Putin.

Sky News @SkyNews

James Cleverly, minister for European neighbourhood and the Americas, says the Russian government has made "a blatant attempt to fabricate" a pretext for invading Ukraine. trib.al/Ck9g5Z9 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Vaccines

Hindawi - Widespread Arterial Thrombosis after ChAdOx1 nCov-19 Vaccination.

American Journal of Case Reports - Myocarditis, Pulmonary Hemorrhage, and Extensive Myositis with Rhabdomyolysis 12 Days After First Dose of Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 Vaccine: A Case Report.

NEJM - Protection against SARS-CoV-2 after Covid-19 Vaccination and Previous Infection.

Vox - Why were scientists so slow to study Covid-19 vaccines and menstruation?

CDN - A clinical trial regional director filed a $2 billion lawsuit against Pfizer & BioNTech alleging the pharmaceutical companies fabricated & falsified their covid-19 vaccine trial data. The lawsuit was unsealed today after being filed on Jan. 8, 2021.

Daily Mail - Warning that Australians could need FIVE doses of a Covid-19 vaccine to be considered fully protected - and the people who should ALREADY be getting four jabs.

NY Times - How the Novavax Vaccine Works.

Zoe Harcombe - The JCVI committee members, jabs for children & conflicts of interest: "The members work for organisations, which collectively have received approximately $1,000,000,000 – one billion dollars – from the Gates Foundation.”

Substack - Popular Rationalism - Widespread Vaccine Failure is the Reproducibility Crisis in Public Health - Will They Adopt Science or Continue a Failing Denialist Agenda?

Viruses

Scientific American - Discovery of New HIV Variant Sends Warning for COVID Pandemic. Infectious disease expert William A. Haseltine cautions that a coronavirus variant could emerge with the transmissibility of Omicron and the deadliness of the original SARS.

Cell - Virome characterization of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging pathogens.

WEF

Guardian - Share your views on a four-day working week. We would like to hear from companies and workers who have been involved in trials of four-day working weeks.