TOKYO, Japan (PNN) - December 14, 2021 - Japan’s ministry of health is taking a sensible, ethical approach to COVID vaccines. They recently labeled the vaccines with a warning about myocarditis and other risks. They also reaffirmed their commitment to adverse event reporting to document potential side effects.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania (PNN) - December 11, 2021 - The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Friday affirmed a Commonwealth Court decision that said Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam did not have the authority to issue a mask mandate for everyone indoors at schools and childcare centers.

It means, effective immediately, school mask mandates are no longer mandatory, although many schools have a local rule that students who wish to wear a mask may still do so.

Tim Pool discusses how new generations are growing up with increased authoritarianism because it’s all they know.

OROVILLE, Kalifornia (PNN) - November 26, 2021 - A town in Kalifornia has declared itself a “constitutional republic,” independent of executive orders issued by the federal or state governments, in protest of lockdowns, mask mandates and compulsory vaccinations.

Oroville Kalifornia’s vice-mayor Scott Thomson outlined the move, noting, “I was sitting at City Hall, and the mandates continue to come. As you know it started with ‘two weeks to stop the - slow the curve,’ and it just seems like a carrot keeps being dangled in front of our faces of just a little more… and it seems like every mandate that comes down, it is a loss of freedom.”