(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 12 things you need to know this Monday – January 17, 2022

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The Great Omicron Sickout: Millions Of Unwell Americans Causing “Hellacious” Worker Shortages – Record spikes in Covid-19 Omicron cases across the country are causing a nationwide worker “sickout,” as businesses from airlines to grocery stores are suffering from disruptions, even though the new variant is markedly far less severe – yet far more transmissible – than prior strains.

According to Delta Airlines CEO Ed Bastian, the past few weeks have been “hellacious,” adding that around 10% of his workforce, or 8,000 of his employees, have contracted the virus in the past month. The shortages contributed to over 2,200 canceled Delta flights since December 24. – READ MORE

Fully Vaccinated Australians In Hospital For COVID-19 Surpass Unvaccinated – For the first time, New South Wales (NSW) has seen more fully vaccinated patients hospitalised with COVID-19 compared to the number of unvaccinated patients as the Omicron outbreak continues to edge toward its peak.

Data published by the NSW government’s COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit has revealed that as of Jan. 9, 68.9 percent of COVID-19 patients aged 12 and over in hospitals had two doses of the vaccine, with 28.8 percent unvaccinated. – READ MORE

Government data: COVID infections, deaths soar after vaccination – Data from the Canadian province Alberta confirms figures from other nations contradicting the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” narrative, showing a spike in COVID-19 cases after vaccination.

Alberta’s data is particularly useful because the province reports COVID cases, hospitalizations and deaths by day after the first and second vaccine doses. – READ MORE

MIT Research Scientist Says Kids Should Not Receive COVID Vaccines – A research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said Thursday that parents should do everything they can to avoid giving their children the coronavirus vaccine, insisting that the potential harm far outweighs the benefits.

I think it is “outrageous to be giving vaccines to young people because they have a very, very low risk of dying from COVID,” Dr. Stephanie Seneff said in an on-air interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News Thursday evening. – READ MORE

General Electric Suspends Vaccine Or Test Requirement After Supreme Court Ruling –General Electric, one of America’s largest employers, announced on Friday that it has suspended its coronavirus vaccine or test requirement for its employees after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Democrat President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for large businesses this week.

“The maker of jet engines, wind turbines and medical scanners confirmed the decision Friday via email,” Bloomberg News reported. “GE is the first major company to announce a halt after the court’s decision Thursday to block the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s push to boost Covid-19 vaccinations.” – READ MORE

Chicago students walk out of class, demand virtual schooling for two weeks and COVID ‘stipends’ – Chicago Public Schools students walked out of classes on Friday and made several demands, including a return to remote learning and coronavirus “stipends” for students.

Students from around the CPS system walked out of class at 12:30 p.m. on Friday, with some going to the system’s headquarters in downtown Chicago to voice their demands. – READ MORE

Salt Lake City Tribune editorial calls for National Guard to keep unvaccinated people in their homes – The Salt Lake City Tribune editorial board published an editorial on Saturday that called on the Utah governor to use the National Guard to prevent unvaccinated citizens from going anywhere.

In an editorial titled, “Utah leaders have surrendered to COVID pandemic, the Editorial Board writes” the paper lays blame at elected officials for failing to mandate the vaccine for all citizens. The paper asserted that if Utah was a “civilized place,” Republican Gov. Spencer Cox would implement a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the state and have the National Guard enforce the mandate by not letting unvaccinated people go “anywhere.” – READ MORE

Viral video shows suspended professor’s profane rant: ‘You people are just vectors of disease to me’ — so ‘keep your f***ing distance’ – A tenured history professor at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan, has been suspended after he issued profane remarks to students via a video conferencing session, Inside Higher Ed reports.

Professor Barry Mehler, age 74 — wearing space helmet-styled getup covering a face mask — was seen during a semester introduction video saying that he wouldn’t kowtow to a “c**k sucker of an administrator” trying to tell him how to teach his classes. – READ MORE

Shocking Videos Show Massive Sea Of Stolen Packages Laying On Railroad Tracks In Los Angeles – A photojournalist with CBS Los Angeles published disturbing images on Thursday afternoon that quickly went viral on social media that reportedly showed thousands upon thousands of stolen packages that had been discarded on railroad tracks in the area after thieves had stolen contents out of the packages.

“A section of the Union Pacific train tracks in downtown Los Angeles has been littered with thousands of shredded boxes, packages stolen from cargo containers that stop in the area to unload,” CBS Los Angeles reported. “Thieves have been raiding the cargo containers, taking packages that belong to people from all over the country from retailers like Amazon, REI and others.” – READ MORE

‘City Of Brotherly Love’: Check Out Philadelphia PD’s New Guide For Surviving A Carjacking – As the City of Brotherly Love endures a historic crime wave, the Philadelphia Police Department published a new guide to help residents survive a carjacking.

In a Facebook post on Wednesday, Commissioner Danielle Outlaw reported that there were 757 reported carjackings in Philadelphia last year — an increase of 34% over 2020. From those incidents, police arrested 150 individuals and cleared 93 investigations. – READ MORE

Report: Anthony Fauci’s $10M 2020 Investment Portfolio Includes Chinese Companies – Dr. Anthony Fauci’s reported $10.4 million-dollar 2020 investment portfolio included Chinese companies, Breitbart News discovered.

According to Fauci’s 2o20 financials first released by Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) and reported by the New York Post, President Biden’s top medical advisor held investments in companies in China through a fund named, Matthews Pacific Tiger Fund – READ MORE

What’s Going On With Nancy Pelosi’s Son? – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s son, Paul Pelosi Jr., has been called out by the Daily Mail over his close ties to “a host of fraudsters, rule-breakers and convicted criminals,” yet has never been charged himself.

Once dubbed the ‘rising prince’ of the Pelosi political dynasty by the now-defunct Men’s Vogue, Pelosi Jr. had “years-long repeated business dealings” with unsavory characters, in what may have been efforts to curry favor with the Democrat’s powerful family. – READ MORE