What Are We Doing to Our Children?
There follows a guest post by Hugh McCarthy, a retired Headteacher in Northern Ireland who until recently served as a Director on two of the province’s main education councils and who remains a ministerial appointment on one. He is horrified by what society has inflicted on children over the past two years in the name of combating a virus from which they are not at risk – and all as the evidence piled up of how much it was harming them.
I welcome the recent Ofsted report highlighting the damaging effects of the Covid restrictions on the development and learning of young children. It highlights a huge range of damaging impacts, including:
- delays in babies’ physical development
- a generation of babies struggling to crawl and communicate
- babies suffering delays in learning to walk
- babies struggling to respond to basic facial expression.
- toddlers struggling to make friends, with their speech and language, and toileting independently
- regression in children’s independence
- children with limited vocabulary
The report also highlights the ongoing negative impact of face masks on young children’s language and communication skills, noting that those turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks and who have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes regularly.
The observations of Ruth Sedgewick, the Head of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) in Northern Ireland, back up what the reports says.
A growing number of young children in Northern Ireland are experiencing significant communication problems following the COVID-19 lockdowns. We’re seeing children who can’t talk at all, they grunt or they point at things they want. They don’t know how to speak to the other children and if they want a toy they will push the other child out of the way or snatch a toy from them. We’re seeing more children who can’t sort shapes or do three or four piece jigsaws.
There are also children who become distressed because they can’t communicate, either because they can’t understand what is being said to them or because they can’t express themselves. They would have been about two-years-old or younger at the start of the pandemic and have spent half their lives in the pandemic so it has really impacted on them.
However, it is not surprising a large proportion of young children are struggling with communication. During lockdown, very young children were essentially cut off from the world, they missed out on all of the very important experiences we know help them to develop their communication and language skills.
Now as we have come out of lockdown, life hasn’t even really returned to normal, think about all the play areas in coffee shops, GP surgeries, dentists, they aren’t there anymore, which also curtails opportunities for children to socialise. Masks have also had a big impact as children aren’t getting the same opportunity to see facial expressions.
Young children who have communication problems can fail to reach their educational potential as they grow older, so it is vital services are provided now to address any issues.
Such learning and developmental issues show up as children get older. National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) research published in March reports that the negative impact of Covid lockdowns on reading progress was greatest among Key Stage 1 pupils and particularly those in Year 1. It says the impact of lockdowns on the development of literacy skills at an early age is of “particular concern”, as “early reading plays a key part in children’s later achievement”.
This research also emphasises the need for schools to be adequately resourced in order to reduce the risk of having reluctant readers, and the associated negative impact this has on “self-esteem and, potentially, behaviour”. It suggests that pupils in year groups 1 and 2 “are at risk of future educational underachievement”.
This educational damage and life-changing impact continues through the age range. As early as November 2020, Ofsted had reported that the majority of our children were going backwards educationally.
The guidance given to schools and children was stark: “Isolation guidance will be provided… and may result in friendship groups, regular contacts or bubbles being instructed to self isolate at home.” It was destined to have the outcomes it did.
What scientific evidence on the potential harms was available to policymakers?
Decision makers would have been aware of the damage the policies were doing, particularly as the months progressed, since the information has been in the public domain, beginning in 2020, much of it from Government agencies, international organisations and leading scientists.
The harms of the restrictions on children may be attributed to two main issues:
- Children not being at school due to school closures or being sent home to isolate after testing positive; this harmed their socialisation, development and learning.
- The wearing of masks harmed their speech, language, psychological and social development.
Firstly I shall consider the evidence available on the damage caused by children not being at school.
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at Stanford University, in November 2020 stated: “School closures are the single greatest generator of inequality.” He called it an “incredibly unequal unfair immoral policy”.
Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University, said in December 2020:
A tiered approach or some version of lockdown leaves open the enormous harms of lockdowns, the harms are too extreme. They don’t solve the problem. We keep saying schools are open, but they are not operating in a way that prevents the harms that accrue, particularly in deprived children not going to school, their attendance is interrupted regularly by someone in their class testing positive. Youth suicides are rising. We need to consider how pernicious lockdowns are particularly with regards to school children.
Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, said in August 2020: “There is overwhelming evidence that missing school is more harmful for children than the virus… Many more children are likely to be harmed by not going to school than by going… They are more likely to have physical and mental ill health issues in the long run.”
It is the most vulnerable who were most affected. When pupils are out of school, teachers cannot pick up the early warning signs of abuse or neglect and children have no one who they can tell – “the invisibility of vulnerable children” as Ofsted calls it in its annual report, published December 1st 2020.
A UNESCO report on the effects of Covid policy on our children was damning.
School closures carry high social and economic costs for people across communities. Their impact however is particularly severe for the most vulnerable and marginalised boys and girls and their families. The resulting disruptions exacerbate already existing disparities within the education system but also in other aspects of their lives. These include… [the impact of] interrupted schooling – schooling provides essential learning and when schools close, children and youth are deprived opportunities for growth and development. Schools are hubs of social activity and human interaction. When schools close, many children and youth miss out of on social contact that is essential to learning and development.
As Professor Russell Viner, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, told the House of Commons Education Committee on January 19th 2021: “When we close schools we close their lives.”
As 2021 went on, more reports emerged highlighting the damage being done to children.
Public Health England said in March 2021: “The long term harm of keeping children out of school was enormous.”
The Children’s Commissioner for England and Wales, Anne Longfield, reported also in March that the class of 2021 had lost the equivalent of 840 million school days. It would be astonishing if such massive absence did not impact on learning and development.
A report by Brown University, USA, in November 2021 and reported in the Daily Mail found a 23% drop in children’s development. An earlier report in conjunction with Rhode Island Hospital stated that “children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic”. It also highlighted the impact of mask-wearing and policies such as shelter-in-place and social distancing.
This amounts to a substantial and growing body of evidence and expert opinion in the public domain setting out the harms caused by children not being at school.
I shall now turn to the evidence highlighting the damage caused by masks.
Both the Ofsted report and the NFER report as well as the research by the Brown University refer to the role played by masks in restricting speech and language development.
Many scientific studies have confirmed the harmful physical, psychological and behavioural effects of mask-wearing. A review by data analyst organisation PANDA in March 2021 reported these adverse effects including headaches, dizziness, shortness of breath and psychological impacts.
In October 2020, Dr. Margareta Griesz-Brisson, Director of the London Neurology and Pain Clinic, one of Europe’s leading neurologists, stated that: “To deprive a child’s or an adolescents’ brain from oxygen, or to restrict it in any way, is not only dangerous to their health, it is absolutely criminal. Oxygen deficiency inhibits the development of the brain, and the damage that has taken place cannot be reversed.” She refers to the acute warning symptoms such as headaches, drowsiness and a reduction in cognitive function.
The potential impact on children’s social and emotional development of making them spend time surrounded by people whose facial expressions are covered may have disastrous consequences, according to the Still Face experiment findings.
The experiment, carried out in 2012, revealed that children become emotionally distressed when they are unable to see and reciprocate facial expressions. According to the findings, having children spend time around people whose facial expressions are masked could have potentially disastrous consequences for their social and emotional development.
More than a hundred child psychologists and academics highlighted in a letter on June 17th 2020 to the Times the mental health risks to children, describing lockdown as a “national disaster.” In the letter, Professor Ellen Townsend and colleagues highlight the “rising anxiety and loneliness” and say suicide is already the leading cause of death in five to 19 year-olds.
Dr. Raj Persaudi, a Consultant Psychiatrist, explained in May 2020 that the brain fills in the gaps in what we know about others and so the brain speculates on what the mask is hiding. He says: “In a pandemic the face mask looks like it might be concealing a dangerous infection. Filling in the gaps what you know about others but doing so under background conditions where the brain projects threat onto the outside world, is now linked to serious mental illness.”
Dr. Paul Alexander, a former Assistant Professor at McMaster University, adviser to President Trump and a specialist in Covid research stated on March 10th 2021 regarding masks: “There is tremendous psychological damage to infants and children, with potential catastrophic impacts on the cognitive development of children.”
A study in the British Medical Journal reported a “significant” increase in depression during school closures which will have a “long term negative effect on their overall psychological well-being” and are “destroying” a generation.
At the very least, the Government should be clear that young parents and others with responsibility for small children ought never to wear a face mask around those in their care.
In addition to this, face masks do not work to significantly reduce the spread of Covid, according to the evidence. Dr. Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University, told the N.I. Executive on August 10th 2020 that mandatory face coverings was the wrong policy: “By all means people can wear masks but they can’t say it’s an evidence based decision.”
The U.K. Government’s own recently published Evidence Summary on the use of face coverings in education settings found no statistically significant effect on transmission. The evidence shows they serve no purpose in controlling the spread of Covid.
The same Evidence Summary acknowledges the harm inflicted by face masks in class:
- 80% of pupils reported that wearing a face covering made it difficult to communicate, and more than half felt wearing one made learning more difficult.
- Face coverings may have physical side effects and impair face identification, verbal and non-verbal communication between teacher and learner.
Where are we now? Moving forward
Why has all this evidence been ignored and why are we continuing to pursue such damaging policies? The head of the UKHSA, Dame Jenny Harries, is still encouraging the wearing of face masks indoors in England, while Wales and Northern Ireland are “strongly recommending” the use of face coverings in all indoor settings. In Scotland the legal requirement to wear a mask is finally to be lifted after Easter for the first time since summer 2020, but the public will still be advised to wear one.
The most up to date data from the Department for Education reveal that the number of pupils absent due to Covid-related attendance restrictions has more than doubled in a fortnight from March 17th to March 31st. While this figure fell at primary level, from 3,300 on March 17th to 1,900 on March 31st, it almost tripled in secondary schools – from 11,900 on March 17th to 30,100 on March 31st. One-in-five of all state-funded schools had more than 15% of their teachers and school leaders absent for any reason on March 31st.
Dame Rachel De Souza, the Children’s Commissioner, said “thousands of pupils left school during lockdowns and never came back… estimates suggest 1,782,000 children were persistently absent and 124,000 children were severely absent”. Her report argues that this means vulnerable pupils could fall through the cracks and miss out on crucial support.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, an infectious diseases expert and a member of SpiM modelling group which provided pandemic advice to the Government, stated:
Lockdowns – an idea concocted by China and WHO made a bad situation worse… A global public health failure on a massive scale, it was untried and not thought through. Harmful restrictions were imposed without evidence that such measures would work. Even when it became clear some of the restrictions were not needed the U.K. continued to impose them at great cost to lives, livelihoods and society. We never had a proper debate. We did serious harm to children and young adults who were robbed of their education, jobs and a normal existence.
The risk-benefit analysis, which should have revealed much of this and which I called for in the Belfast Newsletter on October 2nd 2020, has still not been carried out. It would have revealed the need for a realistic view of risk to children and their parents.
The sad reality is that children’s wellbeing and life chances have been seriously damaged by measures designed to combat a virus from which they have a 99.999% survival chance, measures which cause them great harm and were known to do so. Why was all the evidence ignored?
The Ofsted report refers to the importance of “catch up”. But catch up is not possible if we keep doing the same things that caused the problem in the first place.
We need to:
- carry out a full risk-benefit analysis
- advise young parents and others who care for children in particular not to wear masks
- allow parents back into schools to renew the parent-teacher partnership
- stop testing children
- stop sending children home
- end the speculation over renewed lockdowns
- recognise the harms and implement immediately measures to address them by targeting investment at key age groups
As the Christian theologist Dietrich Bonhoffer said: “The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.” It is time to put the children first.
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Little children who are isolated can’t socialise.
Little children who don’t socialise don’t learn to talk.
Little children who can’t see faces, can’t read facial expressions.
Children who don’t go to school, don’t learn.
Who’d have thunk it?
Here’s another. Little children who are born and brought up in Hell, will grow up as demons.
This is what has to be understood and remembered by anyone inclined to defeatism or despair.
I know that the difficulties seem overwhelming; the apathy and the ignorance too large to overcome. And most of us are tired.
But we have to try with every ounce of our ingenuity and resources to ensure that the crimes of lockdowns, mask mandates and the active encouragement of the injection of young children with experimental chemical materials are never repeated. And we have to win.
These are not mistakes. They are atrocities.
Well done AE.
“Children who don’t go to school, don’t learn.”
I’ll tell you who would have thought that.
Anyone who has no idea about raising children, no idea about education, no idea about the human drive to learn, and no idea about human evolution, that’s who.
Star, let’s assume Annie was referring to the majority of children, for whom their parents have not the time nor, crucially, enough control over their expenses to take responsibility for their children’s education.
When schools operate well (that’s a whole other discussion!), they represent most children’s best opportunity to break free of the sins of their parents…
I have to say that my experience of school was that it was a second rate version of what my parents could provide for me. What neither provided for me was emotional development, practical training and how to face off bullies.
I’d already learned half of the junior school ‘3Rs’ stuff by the age of 5, so school was just more of the same as far as I was concerned.
Need different types of school for different types of parents…..it needs to complement what parents can give, not be a one-size-fits-all lottery which selects out the ones whose parents offer something different as the lucky ones….
Indeed. Until we have a social system a bit like Star Trek, where children’s individual talents are nurtured and they are offered a place in society based on the unique contribution they can make, then schools are good at preparing children for work. I might get told off by Star for saying it, but we all went through school and managed to emerge as critical thinkers, didn’t we.
I agree with the criticisms of schools. But they can also provide outstandingly good experiences: ones that empower children.
Many would remember a teacher who changed their life for the better; as well as the ones who were the stuff of nightmares.
There are also homes which are nightmares, where children are taught things like self-loathing and that violence is the answer to all problems. For children in such homes, school can be a respite.
Indeed, Annie. It was so painfully obvious that the child’s whole life experience was being sacrificed. These animals ruined nearly two years of children’s education, deprived them of nearly two years of normal, healthy human interaction with teachers, peers, friends and family, and these criminals have in all probability turned a large portion of children into neurotics and hypochondriacs.
One is not being a clever Dick when saying, with a due sense of exhaustion, Yeah, we warned you about this two years ago! Any rational human being accessing their rational swede could have foreseen this. It was so obvious that, unless we want to posit that the entire establishment are utterly stupid, they must have known what they were doing to children, and, for one reason or another, they just didn’t care.
This cannot have been a ‘mistake’.
Too late to edit. To clarify:
This should read:
There were plenty of rational voices expressing their sensible views that the whole lockdown of society, including children, was insane and a morally bankrupt strategy. Those people still continue to express those same opinions, yet have been vilified for over 24 months for being the “wrong sort” of expert. I am sure that there are many commentators to this blog who have experienced issues with relationships with friends and family; I certainly have as my aged mother accused me of being “pig headed” and “stupid” for not being jabbed. She also told me in March 2020 that I wouldn’t be able to visit her until at least August 2020 as that was what the PM had said. My mother is not a fool but, like many of all ages, she had been conned by people who appear to be intent on ruining the western economic and social systems for some ulterior motives. The disgraceful abuse of children is no worse than the abuse of other citizens – it would appear that only now are some people waking up to that abuse imposed by unelected bureaucrats and so-called “social media”; the latter is certainly not social as has been demonstrated by… Read more »
Terrific post.
Marvellous post, bean.
Edit not necessary.
When you consider that there was an entire Behavioural Insight Team at work on this, it’s astonishing how little insight they had about behaviour…
But then, when you consider also that the government determined that the one person they should listen to on the pandemic’s trajectory should be the man who was comprehensively wrong on every other illness he modelled, perhaps one shouldn’t be too surprised?
As with so many things that this government is doing, their actions are so glaringly and obviously wrong, one can only conclude that it must be deliberate. A feeling that is supported by the fact that the ‘opposition’ is fully on board too, rather than questioning policy decisions.
It wasn’t a mistake, it was just part of a bigger crime.
FWIW my view is that the ill treatment of children has been deliberate and planned. The intention is to turn them in to neurotic slave fodder by the time they reach adulthood.
Next we have Sybil Fawlty, special subject, the Bleeding Obvious.
“Members of the public could be putting themselves more at risk from contracting coronavirus by wearing face masks, one of England’s most senior doctors has warned.
Jenny Harries, DEPUTY chief medical officer, said the masks could “actually trap the virus” and cause the person wearing it to breathe it in” – Independent March 2020.
Why has this evidence been ignored and why are we continuing to pursue such damaging policies? The head of the UKHSA, DAME Jenny Harries, is still encouraging the wearing of face masks indoors in England.
WE ALL KNOW WHY.
Next question where has INTEGRITY, HONOUR, TRUTH gone.
Because it is a cult. Cults are dangerous. It is Autumn and winter you need to focus on. The situation in Singapore is likely the model they’ll attempt.
Can you summarise your understanding of the situation in Singapore?
Singapore was one of the first countries in the world to go online in a big way, and it was also an “early adopter” of RFID bus passes. People can pooh-pooh those facts now, but I’m talking about a time when the large majority of the population in “advanced” countries hadn’t heard of the internet and as for wireless passes they were widely considered almost like sci-fi.
Singapore has long been on my shortlist as a possible first country to introduce mass compulsory microchip implantation.
Sweden and China are also on the list. Also you could get one of the emirates such as Dubai compulsorily chipping millions of guestworkers.
Of course you could also get a “bolt from the blue” in, say, Iceland, or Austria, or indeed Britain.
I was referring only to the recent events, people locked up and going hungry. Plus the dystopian scenes of government drones with loudspeakers.
I was unaware of the history you outlined. Thanks for posting. It is worrying how quickly societies succumb to control and serfdom.
Did you mean Shanghai?
Didn’t Our Dear Leader say we were going to be the Singapore of the West?
An ominous prediction in light of recent events.
Not even surprised any more.
I see that she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2022 New Year Honours for “services to health”. That’s according to Wikipedia, but it’s obviously another Wikipedia mistake.
Services to what or to whom?
Satan.
Her ‘services to health’ would seem to consist of having assisted in the reduction in the number of those who could bog down the NHS with their ‘health needs’.
The soddin’ masks were MEANT. to trap the virus right next to the zombie’s nose and mouth. That’s what the soddin’ masks were meant to be FOR.
One wonders, if her pronouncements are those of a deputy CMO, how thick other doctors must be not to have achieved similar status.
Or perhaps her selection was based on ‘biddability’?
No Nazi could argue against the Hitler salute either…
This is all that masks are: Gessler hats.
Some facts:
Interesting to see your evidence for Trump being a germaphobe, other than our ‘reliable MSM.
It wasn’t ‘evidence’ when she said that, and almost nothing she’s said or done since has been based on ‘evidence’. The woman is a charlatan.
It was never there. It’s always been an illusion.
You see? These people are not completely stupid. Even granting the simplistic argument that virus spreads via droplets, the clue is in the language being used. It spreads via droplets. If a particle is piggybacking on a droplet, once that droplet evaporates after being stuck on a damp face covering or mask, what do you think happens to the particle? It remains. The particle does not evaporate! So, among other things, the wearer can send the particle out/back out into the population by coughing, sneezing, talking, etc., or they can breathe the particle in/back in. Thus, the face covering or mask plays a mediatory role in the transmission of virus. So, even granting the droplets view, the face covering/mask is still rendered utterly useless.
At least some of those involved knew this. No question.
But they are old fashioned things now, not progressive or woke
Also, the very concept of Truth has been replaced by ‘your truth, or ‘my truth’, when in fact nobody owns the truth according to their feelings. There is only The Truth. That’s it!
Given that there was no impact assessment or cost benefit analysis performed by any government department, be it The Treasury, Health, Education, Social Security, the Cabinet Office or SAGE, and that the potential harms were clear for all to see, the ruination of children’s lives must have been seen as.a price worth paying.
And if that’s not bad enough, welcome Mrna jabs for the rest of your life.
We jab our children because we love them.
And, should you achieve an age of realisation, you will accept without question and rejoice that every move you make, every transaction you make – will be monitored – for your own good and for the good of all.
All possible because of the wonderful medico/health digital ID system we have planned for all.
Democracy is wonderful.
Back in August 2020 at the time mask mandates were being imposed Jenny Harries stated that there was no strong evidence for the mask wearing other than psychological “support” – dare one say that this “support” had only negative and detrimental consequences, and this was what they were after. A sinister “nudge” technique still being employed across the world to keep people in thrall and harm them psychologically.
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3021/rr-2
What can one say about such people?
The same thing said throughout history, the end justifies the means. They seek power and will sacrifice you and your children to get it. Power corrupts, and the corrupted make poor judgments.
This is why the British approach to liberty focused on restraining the powerful, an overlooked aspect of the Anglo-Saxon mindset.
In an era when unproductive nonentities, tiny minorities and narcissists condemn us from their little bubbles, we need more than ever to remind them how Britain actually works. No one is allowed to weild power over us for any reason. Transgressing this must result in punishment. In extreme cases, where the effect is effectively treason, the punishment should be death.
Death sentences for ‘Treason’ were written out of the law books by the Crime and Disorder Act under Tony Blair. Sedition as a crime was chucked out in 2009.
Easily fixed, Neil.
Bliar knew what was coming.
“It has been recently suggested that Blair’s move was “perfectly legal” even though the Declaration of Rights and the Revolution Settlement in 1689 dictates that “suspending laws or the operation of laws” is illegal.
Contrary to popular belief the death penalty still exists in Britain for high treason as the 1795 Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act was NOT repealed in 1998 when Tony Blair introduced the Crime and Disorder Act.
In chapter 36 of this 1998 ‘Act’ he attempted to repeal the 1795 Act and the death penalty for high treason but Blair had no lawful authority to do so, and he committed treason in his attempt. He would be in prison today if only the people would stand united under their constitution as the law demands”
Back in August 2020 this was being pushed hard by the Gates front organisation IHME
https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/wheres-the-missing-evidence/
And who is behind the WHO pandemic treaty, about which Daily Sceptic is yet to report?
Indeed, Phantom. Keep publicising it. We are being constantly manipulated
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Nicely done
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There is no excuse for babies not being able to communicate, or toddlers not being potty trained. Before care and rearing of pre-schoolers was outsourced from parents to Nurseries, parents socialised their babies and toddlers. If they didn’t do it during the Lockdown that is parental failing and nothing else.
it’s school age children who had appalling treatment from the SAGE, the Government and the Teaching Unions. What they did to a generation of school children is unforgiveable.
They aren’t looking for forgiveness. They are receiving knighthoods. No one in power cares about children. Why would they?
Our sin is letting them have power over us. No one was actually forced to mask their kids or get them injected. A public show of defiance would have brought all that to an end.
But, as you correctly state, parents seem to view kids as a nuisance so they outsource their upbringing. That has consequences.
I don’t think this is always true, I think there are plenty of parents out there who would gladly (properly) raise their kids themselves instead of working, but the cost of living in this country compared to wages effectively forces parents to work full time+. And now there’s a lot of money to be made in providing childcare services, which employs people who then pay taxes.
Yes I do believe this is designed deliberately to keep the population compliant.
I’m waiting for an investigation into where the children of keyworkers actually were during lockdown when their parents had no choice but to go to work.
I agree. And there are longterm effects people are doing their best to cope with. High taxation is a massive factor, and a main contributor to the high cost of living.
But we are addicted to big government. That is an expensive indulgence. None of it helps and it has the useful side effect of damaging the nuclear family which certain groups are keen to see more of.
Economic collapse will probably sort most of this.
Taxation is astonishingly high. Income tax and employer’s and employee’s NI takes nearly half. Then 20% VAT when you spend it. Fill you car up and you actually pay VAT on the fuel duty! Council Tax is daylight robbery and they still charge for much of the “service” they provide.
Much of what the parasites take from us is spent on putting obstacles in the way of us getting on with our lives.
A local example –
OMBC have interest charges this year, on outstanding Council loans of £38 million.
INTEREST on loans of Thirty Eight Million.
How is a crummy, mafia run Council allowed to get in to so much debt?
In school. I know this as my friend is a dinner lady and worked throughout the whole of the corona crap. What cracked me up that she is considered ‘vulnerable’ due to respiratory disease.
She does not consider herself ‘vulnerable’ btw.
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You seem to think the offered cap is a good fit.
I strongly doubt that RTSC would blame ALL parents. Some for example don’t send their children either to nurseries or to school, but socialise them and educate them properly. Generally speaking, home educators slog their guts out for their children far more than school parents would ever consider doing.
Some parents do indeed fight for survival, especially single parents – there is no doubt about that. But many parents haven’t a clue what “fight for survival” means and when the bank lends them money they think it’s “giving” them something.
At last, someone talks some sense!
It has to be observed, though, that not all parents have failed. Some actually understand their responsibilities and don’t shirk them.
Another obsevation is that what many parents have been doing in the house while they’ve been “saving lives and protecting the NHS”, rather than helping their children learn and develop, is picking these disgusting gadgets called “smartphones”. (That doesn’t let smartphone-picker parents off the hook – I am just making the observation, that’s all.)
Quite simply. the Morlocks are breeding Eloi.
The powerful are creating a small minority who increasingly understand there is no way to reason our way out of this. It is us versus them, with the majority caught in the middle.
That small minority, which probably includes most visitors to this site, are prepared to put in a little effort to understand what is happening, however flawed. That alone puts you in a minority.
The takeaway everyone should understand is virtually none of what our would-be rulers do stands up to scrutiny. Masks, lockdowns and experimental injections have all been throroughly trashed by scientific enquiry and we all know it. We know that they know it too. Their continued adherence to flawed science can only be interpreted harshly, and our own judgment of them must be equally harsh. There is no middle ground here.
This is a culture war between normal people and a technocratic elite. And elites by their nature must remain small. A tiny number are telling people to abuse their kids. That is worth remembering.
Not Eloi. Morlocks. Wait until they grow up, completely unsocialised, utterly amoral.
Wait until then, you say?
Look at how many rape scenes there are in the filthy TV series “Game of Thrones”, and how little criticism it’s had by anyone at all in the MSM:
https://winteriscoming.net/2015/05/28/a-tumblr-user-performed-a-statistical-analysis-of-rape-on-game-of-thrones/
John Bosnitch made a film about how all the stops were pulled out to promote this bottom-of-the-barrel muck and to say what great literature it was (just like Tolkien apparently – I mean how can any sane person say such a thing?) and how the actors and actresses all deserved Oscars and Nobel prizes (OK I made up the bit about Nobel prizes). It’s extremely hard to get hold of. It’s called “Fair Game: The Critical Universe Around HBO’s Game of Thrones.”
Blame the Morlocks for everything, eh?
Now? Sorry too little too late.
And the jabs? Anything to say about those? Or is the man going to wait a couple of years to say something about the risk and damage of jabs to kids?
Nothing new here.
I have noticed this trend since the Sony Walkman stated to be sold. It accelerated when the Nintendo Game Boy came into the market, and now with Smartphones hardly any child looks at each other any more.
Lockdown simply put the cap on it. Everybody now lives in their own virtual world…
This trend is exacerbated by the constant neurotic pushing of fear to create anxiety. The world is dangerous, best stay safe in your little bubble.
The pediatricians are among the worst and most sadistic people in this plandemic, certainly in the US and Germany: ultra-pro masking children ignoring or smearing any harmful evidence, ultra-pro locking them up and in, ultra-pro poisoning them.
Nuremberg 2 front bench material.
The first professional group to endorse the Nazis in 1930s Germany were the medical fraternity. It has long been observed the process of medical training quickly filters out the mavericks and troublemakers, leaving the compliant.
Not just the first, also the group with the highest membership ratio.
Half of all doctors were party members, and 80% of dentists were.
Doctors and dentists were also making up the largest profession among SS members, by far.
What I found astounding about this list of so-called experts is that none of them apart from Dr Sunetra Gupta and Dr Carl Heneghan really stood up for children during the two years plus of this pandemic.
Hugh McCarthy
Ruth Sedgewick
Dr Jay Bhattacharya
Chris Whitty
Professor Russell Viner
Anne Longfield
Dr. Margareta Griesz-Brisson
Dr Raj Persaudi
Dr Sunetra Gupta
Dr Paul Alexander
Dr Carl Heneghan
Dame Rachel De Souza
Professor Mark Woolhouse
Where were your voices then?
Cults have always sacrificed children
Nothing new under the sun,son
But but but granny was saved.
for three months…
The damage caused to our young has been immense; we’ve sacrificed the young for the old (actually, it looks like there wasn’t any substantial benefit to the old either — we sacrificed the young to support some politicians’ misinterpretation of science, hoping that it would win them some votes / money).
This was easy to do, because the young (well, up to about 15) mainly do what their told by authority — if we’d subjected the average 40 year old to those levels of disruption they’d have been rioting.
This focus on the young wasn’t merely incidental — there are documented instances of officials stating that they’d take advantage of our youngsters compliance and sensitivity to peer pressure. These are huge red-flags when it comes to medical interventions — all the ethics/morals rules say that you have to be careful not to abuse peer pressure, yet our officials were delighting in it.
Beyond the ethical argument, there’s an excellent selfish reason to look after the young — in a few years’ time they’ll be running the country and looking after the old. I hope they don’t bear a grudge.
I shall be attending the demo on Saturday April 30th. Currently, my placard (A2 size) campaigns against Vaccine Passports, Lockdowns, and Face-nappies. It is getting a bit tired having been used quite a few times now. The trouble is that ALL of the above are STILL relevant: I learned yesterday that the NHS are recruiting ‘Vaccine Passport Managers for PERMANENT positions. Who authorised this and why? Earlier this week Johnson said he could not rule out further Lockdowns. Why? Ron de Santis has ruled them out, why can’t/won’t he? The Daily Sceptic reported that NHS panjandrums were pressing for a return of face-nappy mandates and so on, because the NHS was, or was about to be ‘overwhelmed’. They have sufficient money, use it wisely, instead of squandering it on useless non-jobs such as attempting to force people to use their idiotic one-way systems. I had the childish satisfaction on Wednesday of exiting High Wycombe Hospital by the entrance door. By the time the door goons got their act together I was out. I shall also add a line about the atrocity called ‘Child-stabbing’. More practically, the previous day I shall be playing chess (most likely simultaneously) the previous evening at… Read more »
But then they might have to reduce the number of Diversity Managers, and just think what a devastating impact that would have…
We took both our children out of school in October 2020. We are pleased to report the opposite of bullet points 5, 6 and 7.
Anyone who welcomes the insane parent-hating Ofsted report deserves a thrashing.
Don’t send your children to school. Educate them at home. Home’s the biggest factor in their achievements even if they do go to school.
Hear, hear!
Factor in the State-sponsored grooming into LGBT, the replacement of fathers with government.
As my Boss says, it would be better for these evil individuals to have a millstone tied around their necks and chucked into the sea than cause these little children to stumble.
Bring it on Lord!
Just to ensure our children’s minds are complete mush, schools teach them about LGBT and racism, problems highly educated adults can’t deal with but kids are expected to handle in primary school.
Is there a place on the curriculum for things like, how to open a bank account, how does a mortgage work, how to manage a credit card or balance a household budget?
Of course not, far too sensible.
And dangerous to those who would rule us. Can’t have the kids thinking for themselves.
Is it difficult for a parent to show a teenager how to open a bank account? As for managing a credit card, why on earth would somebody want to have one of those? Borrowing money to do the weekly shop when you don’t have to is truly moronic.
I know some people think “I can handle it”, but they probably also think they’re not influenced by advertising and they have probably never realised that no moneylender will lend strangers money out of the kindness of their hearts.
Mind you, hang around in a red-light-and-drugs district and maybe somebody will “give” you some drugs for free…If so, it must be because they really like you, or they want to help you, or something.
They were happy to sacrifice the young and old, to break up family units.
Yes indeed – notably between middle-aged people and older family members, and between elderly family members in care homes and everybody, and also between children and older family members, and other family relationships besides these too. What’s next in their sights is the relationship between parents and children, or what remains of it in the smartphone epoch.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they try to force vaccination on all children, or if they paint parental residence with children as the danger of all dangers and then take children away into camps. Don’t expect headteachers (or other kinds of schoolteacher for that matter) or GPs to object. (Obviously, Britain being Britain, an exception would be made for pupils at private boarding schools, but those places are already a kind of camp.)
Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, said in August 2020: “There is overwhelming evidence that missing school is more harmful for children than the virus… Many more children are likely to be harmed by not going to school than by going… They are more likely to have physical and mental ill health issues in the long run.”
Condemned out of his own mouth. He cannot claim ignorance or error. In my view he should hang for this.
Happy Easter my downticker friend.
For that and many other atrocities to emit from his lizard head.
Chris Whitty should shut his face. He is not responsible for children’s education, and nor are the officials who run schools. Parents are. It’s parents’ choice whether they send their children to school or not, and it’s none of anyone else’s f***ing business. That schools were shut gave school parents the chance of their lives to find out about home education, to get their a*ses into gear. Unfortunately most of them were utterly lazy b***ards.
I may have said this before, but 5 minutes with a pencil and the back of an envelope could have predicted this, along with the collapse of the risibly named NHS, the economy and rampant inflation.
Not for most. I know people who have had their five year olds injected. They’re not able to predict anything.
Nassim Taleb said in his book “The Black Swan” that a pandemic was coming. (But it doesn’t qualify as a “black swan”, because it was a known possibility.)
So what? I didn’t mention the word pandemic. The problem, the central issue isn’t the presence of a pandemic, but rather the damage caused by the, unplanned, improperly scrutinised, excessive and hysterical, governmental and establishment response, and it’s accompanying narrative.
Hmm it used to be the back of a fag packet.
How times have changed
I wonder how long we will blame (some) delays in 1-2 year olds on lockdowns whilst ignoring their mothers, vaccinated during pregnancy or whilst breastfeeding.
For about the same amount of time we ignore the events around 9/11, the Tuskegee incident and any number of other things with evidence of things not following the official narrative.
People were duped. As one person commented, literal morons saw through this. The laptop class didn’t. That’s a personality issue not intelligence.
I have no idea what you mean by “intelligence”, but you get a big thumbs up from me for tearing into the “laptop class” 🙂
A comprehensive survey of the damage done to children during this whole story saga, which really deserves a follow-up post.
Boris Johnson is not a scientist. He did not dream up face masks, and social distancing, and lockdowns, by himself. Someone, somewhere, was feeding him this stuff.
The concern is that, as the damage from the official response to COVID becomes clear, there will be a lot of advisors who will conveniently “forget” that they were ever in favour of lockdowns and face masks, and be only too happy to let Boris take the blame. We need a record, now, of exactly who was agitating for what measures and when, so that those responsible (pandemic modellers, public health officials, hospital administrators, behavioural scientists, political advisers, the BBC, for starters) can never restore what’s left of their tattered reputations.
This is the first time in history the response to a pandemic is driven by pure evil. And the most worrying thing is how a large majority of the population has accepted it and how many still do. It is only a few days since Boris Johnson threatened to repeat his crimes.
What makes you think it was a “response” to a pandemic?
See for example Event 201.
You beat me to it. 👍
This is the first time in history the response to a pandemic is driven by pure evil.
There was no “pandemic.” The “pandemic” was and is part of the evil.
It was all so predictable … but teachers, politicians, journalists and worst of all parents didn’t give a damn about the children.
Well at least they can all go on holiday now they’ve had all those unlicensed “vaccines”. (Isn’t it lovely of those nice WHO people who changed the definition of a vaccine so that the mRNA jabs can now be called vaccines).
There seem to be comments advocating execution for the culpable ones,the members of the merely-dormant SAGE, the JCVI, and the rest, but rigorous interrogation, public humiliation and lifelong villification would bring more satisfaction. Those who have lost family and friends can have closure, but people like Johnson and Co. should never be allowed to rest.
I’m not vindictive. I just want these people to f*uck off and leave me alone.