(FREE) PAINE IN THE MORNING: 9 things you need to know this Wednesday – February 9, 2022

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Canadian truckers shut down busiest border crossing in North America, back up Detroit roads – The busiest border crossing in North America was shut down as the Canadian truckers protesting their country’s vaccine mandates made it to the Detroit-Windsor border, causing traffic on the highway to Detroit.

“It doesn’t make sense as they shouldn’t be blocking the borders or the roads,” Canadian truck driver Nav Aulch told Click on Detroit. – READ MORE

New Zealand Protest Convoy Blocks Capital: Demands End to Vaccine Mandates –Hordes of vehicles blocked streets around New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday, in a protest mirroring others building around the world demanding an end to coronavirus restrictions and vaccine mandates.

An estimated “hundreds” to over a “thousand” vehicles have surged into the capital of Wellington with authorities reluctant to move them on or arrest them due to fears about the “safety” of their “staff.” – READ MORE

California’s indoor mask mandate will end next week for vaccinated individuals, Gov. Newsom says – Vaccinated Californians will no longer have to wear masks in most indoor settings next week as the omicron surge recedes, health officials announced Monday.

Unvaccinated people will still have to wear masks indoors and some cities and counties may also keep their mandates in place. – READ MORE

Chicago-area high school students walk out after being told to comply with mask mandate – A group of high school students in the Chicago area walked out of class Monday after being told they had to wear masks to attend class.

The walkout came after Sangamon County Circuit Court Judge Raylene Grischow issued a temporary restraining order against Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s requirement that masks be worn in schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19. – READ MORE

Oregon Health Authority Adopts ‘Permanent’ Rules for Masking in Schools – The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) adopted “permanent” rules for masking in schools, forcing children to mask up “unless the State Public Health Director or State Public Health Officer issues an order stating that the some or all requirements in this rule are no longer necessary to control COVID-19.”

Oregon officials have long floated making mask rules a more “permanent” fixture in the state, and they made it a reality — at least for school settings. – READ MORE

Pfizer expects $54 billion in 2022 sales on Covid vaccine and treatment pill – Pfizer projects it will generate record-high revenue in 2022, saying Tuesday it expects to sell $32 billion of its Covid-19 shots and $22 billion of its antiviral coronavirus treatment pill Paxlovid this year.

However, the company posted mixed fourth-quarter results, beating on earnings but missing on revenue. Pfizer’s stock was down more than 5.7% in morning trading. – READ MORE

Biden DHS Declares Heightened Terrorism Threat Due To “Mis-, Dis-, & Mal-Information” – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Feb. 7 declared a heightened terrorism threat due to “false and misleading narratives,” misinformation, and “conspiracy theories.”

“The United States remains in a heightened threat environment fueled by several factors, including an online environment filled with false or misleading narratives and conspiracy theories, and other forms of mis- dis- and mal-information introduced and/or amplified by foreign and domestic threat actors,” the DHS bulletin said. – READ MORE

Revealed: The No. 1 killer of Americans ages 18-48 – What heroin and cocaine were in times gone by, the recreational drug of choice, it’s now Fentanyl, a powerful opioid described by some as 100 times stronger than morphine.

It mostly comes out of Mexico to the U.S., after being made of products that mostly come from China. – READ MORE

The Pentagon’s RESPONSE to the explosive DOD medical data is an even bigger story than the data – One thing is clear about the revelation of the 2021 military epidemiological data and the military’s response to it: There is undoubtedly a public health and national security crisis in the military, and the Pentagon’s reaction only seems to be concerned with exonerating the vaccine, not fixing its own alleged problem.

It’s now certain that the military’s health surveillance system — DMED — showed a massive increase in sickness and injury diagnoses in 2021 over previous years, particularly in the neurological, cardiovascular, oncological, and reproductive health categories. The military, in a very terse and cryptic statement to PolitiFact last week, admitted as much, but claimed without any further explanation that the data in the system accessed by several military doctors working with attorney Thomas Renz was only a “fraction” of the true numbers that existed. In the words of the Pentagon spokesman, it was a “glitch in the database.” Where those true numbers existed, why they weren’t in the system for five years, what exactly was in the system, and why the 2021 numbers were accurate according to the DOD account remain a mystery. – READ MORE