(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 10 things you need to know this Wednesday – September 22, 2021

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“F**K The Jab, Long Live Australia” – 20,000 Shut Down Melbourne Highway In Massive Lockdown Protest – Anti-lockdown protests have become more common in Australia since the latest round of “snap” lockdowns began two months ago.

Initially, those lockdowns were supposed to last a week. But months later, with tensions running high, millions of Australians are fed up with the government’s lockdowns and vaccine requirements. – READ MORE

Scientists Want to Replace Injections by Turning Plants into Edible mRNA Vaccines –Scientists at the University of California-Riverside will be studying how to turn plants into “mRNA vaccine factories,” the school announced last week.

The National Science Foundation (NSF), which is partly funded by the federal government and created by Congress in 1950, awarded the school a $500,000 grant in August. The goal of the study is to find a way “to grow edible plants that carry the same medication as an mRNA vaccine,” WFLA reported on Saturday. – READ MORE

COVID Vaccine May Not Be Safe For Pregnant Women, New England Journal Of Medicine Finally Admits – The renowned New England Journal of Medicine has finally backtracked and admitted that the COVID-19 vaccine may not be safe for pregnant women.

The medical journal issued a correction after a study found that 104 of 827 pregnant participants experienced a spontaneous abortion after getting the COVID-19 vaccine. This means that after getting the vaccine, around 1 in 8 women lost their babies. – READ MORE

Quarantined L.A. Schoolkids Have Lower COVID Rates Than Vaccinated Teachers – If you got your pediatric COVID news from New York Times science and public health correspondent Apoorva Mandavilli, you might be under the mistaken impression that (as Mandavilla asserted Monday) “the reopening of schools has fueled the [recent] surge,” and that “children are as likely as adults to transmit the virus to others, and more likely to do so than adults older than 60.”

Neither of these claims are supported by the evidence.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rise in U.S. COVID hospitalizations began on June 28 (when the rate was at 0.56 per 100,000 residents), or precisely when most schools were closed for the summer. The rate then steadily climbed to 3.73 per 100,000 on August 27, at which point three-quarters of K-12 schools had flung open their doors. Now that the remaining 25 percent of schools have started the 2021-22 school year, hospitalizations are steadily sinking, down to 2.94/100,000. – READ MORE

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Mandates Weekly Coronavirus Testing for Students – New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) on Monday announced students will be subjected to weekly coronavirus testing, which he said will begin next week, on September 27.

“We will now go to weekly testing. We’ll be testing in elementary, middle, and high school each school every week,” de Blasio said Monday, announcing the updated protocols. “That will allow more kids to safely remain in the classrooms.” – READ MORE

Pfizer Chiefs: Singer Encourages Fans to Cheer Their Vaccine Brands – Kaiser Chiefs lead singer Ricky Wilson has been mocked for encouraging fans to cheer for their vaccine brands, with people responding in rapturous cries and arm-waving described as creepy and cult-like.

Wilson, of the indie rock band Kaiser Chiefs formed in Leeds in the early 2000s, stood on the stage at the famous Isle of Wight festival on Sunday night, remarking how “clean” all his fans’ hands were. – READ MORE

Hollywood Elite Privilege: LA County Dept. of Public Health Says Mask-Less Emmys Covered Under Filming Exemption – In response to the controversy over the images of maskless celebrities partying at the Emmys while staffers huddled behind their face-coverings, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health defended the display by touting Hollywood filming and television production “exceptions” put in place a year ago.

In a statement shared by CNN’s Oliver Darcy, the department said that “safety modifications” were made for an event like the Emmys due to the “exceptions” made for film and television productions, even going so far as classifying celebrity attendees as “performers.” – READ MORE

Psaki On Biden’s Response To Drone Killing Children And Aid Worker: He’s ‘Personally’ Had Loss In His Life – White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki seemingly invoked the losses that President Joe Biden has experienced in his personal life when asked during a press conference on Monday about what the president’s response was to the news that several children and an aid worker were killed in a drone strike in Afghanistan targeting ISIS-K.

The Pentagon admitted last week that 10 people, including seven young children, were killed in the drone strike last month. – READ MORE

Media, Democrats Rant Furiously About Border Patrol Agents Using ‘Whips.’ But Is It True? – Members of the media and Democrat politicians awakened from their apathy toward the southern border crisis Monday after an El Paso Times story portrayed dramatic events on the Rio Grande River in Del Rio, Texas.

Without a second of fact-checking, a narrative formed among MSNBC types and Democrat senators and representatives that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents used “whips” on migrants who illegally crossed the Mexico-United States border in recent days. – READ MORE

GOP Won’t Help Raise Debt Ceiling. Could Dems Suggest Minting $1 Trillion Coin To Bypass Them? – The Biden administration is looking to challenge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s staunch position that the GOP will not raise the debt ceiling. One idea that was previously discussed by the Obama administration to circumvent a possible government shutdown was to exploit a loophole in the law and mint a $1 trillion platinum coin and deposit it at the Federal Reserve.

The Treasury Department hit the debt ceiling at the end of July. “While the Treasury Secretary has a bit of leeway to use ‘extraordinary measures’ to keep paying the bills for a few months using cash on hand and shuffling money around, that only works for so long. It may exhaust those abilities sometime in mid-October,” Business Insider noted in an article about the possibility of minting the $1 trillion coin.  – READ MORE