(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 14 things you need to know this Monday – September 13, 2021

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No more COVID-19 lockdowns, UK health minister suggests – British health minister Sajid Javid said on Sunday he did not expect the country to see any more lockdowns to fight the COVID-19 crisis and ruled out the use of vaccine passports to allow people to attend mass events.

“I am not anticipating any more lockdowns. I think it would be irresponsible for any health minister around the world to take everything off the table but I just don’t see how we get to another lockdown,” he told the BBC’s Andrew Marr show. – READ MORE

Sweden to Scrap All COVID Restrictions This Month, Has the Country’s Pro-Freedom Approach Worked? – Sweden has announced that it will be lifting all remaining coronavirus restrictions by the end of the month, following its Nordic neighbour Denmark which declared that the country would be returning to normal this week.

While Sweden placed emphasis on personal responsibility and shied away from introducing the draconian lockdown measures seen throughout much of the Western world, it is a popular misconception that it has not implemented some restrictions over the past year and a half. – READ MORE

Biden to Announce New COVID-19 Steps Ahead of U.N. Meeting, Surgeon General Says –U.S. President Joe Biden will announce new steps to slow the spread of COVID-19 before the U.N. General Assembly meets, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday.

Murthy did not specify what those steps would be. The next session of the General Assembly opens Tuesday; the first day of general debate will be the following week. – READ MORE

Fmr FDA Commissioner Gottlieb Expects Delayed Impact of Biden Vaccine Mandate — ‘Fall of 2022’ – Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” former FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb said President Joe Biden’s newly announced coronavirus vaccine mandates will be a policy that affects the fall of 2022.

According to Gottlieb, the process to issue the rules and guidelines and the ensuing challenges in court means the mandate is “probably something for the fall of 2022 work season.” – READ MORE

Members Of Congress, Staff Exempt From Biden Vaccine Mandate – Members of Congress, their staff, and federal court system employees are exempt from the Biden administration’s new vaccine mandates, according to Newsweek.

On Thursday, Biden issued two executive orders mandating that federal workers, federal contractors, and workers for companies with more than 100 employees take the Covid-19 jab or face unemployment and fines. – READ MORE

‘We Need to Protect Kids from Parents’: House Democrats Rail Against Schools Requiring Parental Consent to Vaccinate Children – Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) said the government knows better than parents when it comes to vaccinating children against the Chinese coronavirus.

During a budget reconciliation markup meeting on Thursday, Yarmuth slammed an amendment sponsored by Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) that proposes that schools must obtain parent or guardian consent before vaccinating children. – READ MORE

More kids shot in Chicago than have died of COVID-19 across US this year – Over the course of 2021, more minors have been shot in Chicago than have died of COVID-19 in all of the United States, according to data from police and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A total of 214 children 17 years old or younger have died of COVID-19 so far this year in the country. Comparatively, Chicago police told FOX 32 Chicago earlier this week that 261 children have been shot — 41 of whom have died. – READ MORE

Study Finds Teenage Boys Six Times More Likely To Suffer Heart Problems From Vaccine Than Be Hospitalized by COVID – Research conducted by the University of California has found that teenage boys are six times more likely to suffer from heart problems caused by the COVID-19 vaccine than to be hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 itself. – READ MORE

Fauci: No “Firm Answer” On Why Americans Who Recovered From COVID-19 Should Get Vaccinated – Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top U.S. public health official, said that a new study regarding so-called natural immunity following COVID-19 infection is provoking discussion among government experts.

The real-world study, conducted by Israeli researchers, found that previous COVID-19 infection confers better protection against infection and hospitalization than COVID-19 vaccines. – READ MORE

NY hospital puts baby deliveries on hold as maternity workers quit over COVID-19 vaccine mandate – A hospital in upstate New York will put baby deliveries on hold after too many workers in its maternity unit resigned over the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, according to local reports.

Lewis County General Hospital will be forced to temporarily stop all baby deliveries after Sept. 24 due to the staff’s refusal to get vaccinated, WWNY-TV reported. – READ MORE

Harvard’s Newest Lesson: How To Mask and Eat at the Same Time – Harvard University was founded in 1636 in order to train an elite class of Puritan ministers. Nearly four centuries later, the school has not abandoned that mission. In a campus-wide email sent Friday, the university weighed in on an ecclesiastical controversy that has dogged the secular clergy of our own time: how to eat in public with a mask on.

“Eating and drinking together are a cornerstone of human social interaction,” Harvard’s health director Giang Nguyen acknowledged in the email. But there are still “efficient” ways to “minimize the time spent unmasked and in close proximity.” To that end, Nguyen outlined some tips for staying “safe” in the dining hall. – READ MORE

Producer Prices Soar a Record 8.3% as Bidenflation Runs Hotter Than Expected – Prices charged by U.S. businesses jumped higher than expected in August, data from the Department of Labor said Friday.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Producer Price Index rose 0.7 percent compared with July. Compared with a year ago, the index is up 8.3 percent, the fastest pace of price increases in data going back to 2010. – READ MORE

Food Inflation Hits Record High, Prices Up Sharply on Beef, Chicken, Pork, Turkey, Eggs, and Fish – Putting food on the kitchen table has become much more expensive, squeezing household budgets at a time when many families are already stressed by the Delta variant surge hitting as kids go back to school.

Food prices rose a full percentage point in August, up from six-tenths of a point in July, defying predictions that inflation would cool off, data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday. Compared with a year ago, food prices are up 12.7 percent, outpacing the overall increase of 8.3 percent in the Producer Price Index. – READ MORE

US Kabul drone strike appears to have killed an Afghan who worked for a US aid group: report – The U.S. government’s account of a drone strike launched against a suspected terrorist in Afghanistan toward the end of the military withdrawal from Kabul is being challenged by a report suggesting the victim was not a threat to the United States.

According to a New York Times report, the drone attack that American officials said killed an ISIS terrorist carrying a bomb in a car toward U.S. troops may have killed a man with no ties to ISIS and who was carrying water to family members. – READ MORE

NFL Whistleblower Details How the League Discriminates Against Unvaccinated Players Until They are Forced to Take the Jab – An NFL player who contacted PJ Media under the condition of anonymity tells a harrowing story about what is going on inside the league for unvaccinated players.

The purpose of my email is to share about the NFL vaccine mandate. I recently read an article by one of your writers that lamented the mandates in a certain Arizona county school and the consequences associated with a teacher declining to be vaccinated for religious reasons. He went on to describe how the NFL has fallen victim to this way of thinking by not allowing a certain individual to sing the national anthem on opening night because of her vaccination status. In the article, however, he stated that players did not have to get vaccinated and this was unfair and hypocritical by the NFL to not allow the individual to sing the national anthem because of her vaccination status. I want to shed some light on this as the NFL has done its best to screw over its players as much as possible as many private businesses/hospitals are doing across the country.

The whistleblower went on to describe the immense pressure the NFL is putting on its unvaccinated players and hopefuls who don’t get any press coverage and are just trying to make it into the league. – READ MORE