Former Headteacher Hugh McCarthy tells how his talk on the harms Covid lockdowns have done to children was refused several venues for his dissent from the official narrative. And he is not alone in being censored.
In December, after the U.K. approved the Covid vaccine for infants, Hugh McCarthy asked the CMO for N. Ireland why we were vaccinating babies against Covid. These are the questions left unanswered by his reply.
The UK recently approved Covid vaccines for infants aged 6 months to 4 years. Yet there is a mountain of evidence that the vaccines are neither safe nor effective, nor necessary for this age group, says Hugh McCarthy.
Lockdowns killed hundreds of thousands of children and put 150 million into poverty, according to the United Nations. Are we really putting their interests first? Was it worth it?
The damage to our children highlighted in recent reports should act as a clarion call that we should never close schools again, never send children home to isolate and avoid wearing masks around children.
It is unforgivable 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.
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