There follows a guest post by a Daily Sceptic reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, about the borderline child abuse they have witnessed being inflicted on children at their child’s nursery owing to the over-zealous application of Covid rules and guidelines. If readers have other stories of the mistreatment of children under Covid rules and guidelines email us here.
Parents with children in nursery care have suffered tremendously with the pandemic. Here is our experience of nurseries in Norfolk. In the first lockdown we were expected to look after our two year old whilst undertaking two full time jobs at home. This was obviously very hard and meant working evenings and weekends to catchup on day jobs. Initially our nursery tried to charge full price for not doing anything. They backed down when they realised they could furlough staff. A discount was given.
In the January 2021 lockdown, with no notice, they reduced the school day by several hours and removed all meals. We had less than 12 hours notice and no reduction in fees. We know from staff at the nursery that they were furloughing staff so that they profited from providing less care.
Needless to say we moved nursery to a better one that provided a better service.
In general we have been happy with the new nursery, however, the Covid idiocy is getting worse.
Even in the summer, parents have to wear masks when they drop their children off outside. I am pretty much the only parent not to do this as it’s clearly stupid and not good for my son to see me masked.
Last week, with less than a day’s notice, we were asked to do a lateral flow test on children (all under-fives). It was worded as a request, but at drop off, it was insisted upon, and if you didn’t have evidence toddlers and babies were swabbed at the door.
My son and I were welcomed to the first day of term with a screaming child pinned to the floor by a parent jamming a swab down their nose. Fortunately I had a magic text on my phone so my son got a free pass. I think, with me unmasked and this magical pass, my son must believe that his dad is some sort of king, and that stupid rules simply don’t apply (in fact, I had tested him at home). He walked straight past screaming child and monster father with his special Covid invisibility protection. Back in the real world, though, nurseries seem perfectly happy to encourage and partake in child abuse at the entrance to their very own premises. Remember, this example is from a nursery that we moved our son to, specifically because it was good with Covid, and at least bothered to open its doors to parents. This story is from one of the better ones. I hate to think what the worst are like.
To all parents out there, please speak up when you experience issues and nonsense. I’ve noticed almost all parents acquiesce, but then when it gets serious (like pinning a screaming child down), they get annoyed whilst wearing a mask. The time to get annoyed was when you were asked to wear a mask outside despite no Government recommendation to do so, not after you’ve abused your child in public!
This madness will only end when more and more parents tell nurseries that they are harming very young children and in may cases committing child abuse.
On a personal level, I hope that I’m teaching my son that it’s a good thing to stand up to tyranny even if that means standing out from the crowd. And failing that, he can continue to think that I have special magic VIP powers. They’re working far better than my magic tricks, which he is already wise to.
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”…. we were expected to look after our two year old…”
Err – yes. It’s YOUR child. Of course you’re ”expected” to care for it.
Don’t have children unless you are prepared to care for them yourselves. Live on less money – or don’t have them in the first place.
I’m staggered that any of this has been applied to any children, not in my UK.
The answer is of course that the majority of people have allowed their brains to be replaced by marshmallow or some other mush.
Until they get them back again absolutely nothing will change unfortunately.
You are absolutely right to show your child that you do not bend to the bully. The people in the nursery are child abusers, these are very young children, toddlers,in their formative years where many important connections are being made in their rapidly developing brains. How is a child of 2 meant to learn how to talk, read body language and facial expressions, learn empathy when for the major part of their day they are first subjected to frankly torture, by being held down by adults and having a stick rammed up their noses and down their throats, they are then left by the parent who is supposed to protect them, to a bunch of so cared, child carers who will cover the same childs nose and face, whilst they themselves cover their own faces. The child then cannot learn how to communicate, either with the carer or other children. The child has witnessed violence and abuse against other children by Adults as being acceptable, and frankly Monkey see, Monkey do.
I would actually take a legal case against the Nursery for Child Abuse, I would also take photographs and publish on the internet, and I would not be sending… Read more »
As this winds down, people need to look at individuals and establishments closer to home who have taken government guidelines to the extremes, blaming the government lets these people off the hook.
It’s terrible but that matched by the authors admission about testing the 5 year old at home. Good for you standing up in person at the school but I suspect you and I would not get along in real life.
Those subjecting their children to abuse either at nurseries or schools are unfit to have children in their care.
I never thought I’d be “that parent” who is a constant thorn in the side of their child’s school administrators. Five emails and letters about covid BS later, I am “that parent.”
Highly recommend the interview with Alex Berenson on RFK’s podcast. Although Berenson comes off as slightly dickish it’s a fascinating exchange that puts together many of the jigsaw pieces needed understand how the fraud was pulled off in the early days of 2020.
Awake parents seriously need to remove their children from the “care” of the British State, which has now rendered a significant part of the population dangerously delusional and brainwashed – teachers are very badly brainwashed. Where do you draw the line. If you dont draw the line at forcing kids to wear masks all days and have their noses scraped with carcinogenic weaponised swabs and injecting them with experimental synthetic genes which will likely set them up for all manner of health problems and potentially early death – plus all the nanotech they are bundling with the free gene therapy, then all the brainwashing and terrorism about convid and killing granny which we know is all bullshit etc etc…….then where do you draw the line. Where is the point at which you would actually remove your kids from the schools – because what people are tolerating I find quite shocking.
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I applaud the writer and I think it’s important to not let those who had responsibility to children during this episode get away with the psychotic and irrational behaviour they displayed (and may again if this cycle is repeated every winter).
I know that in my job I could not have done much more. I told classes precisely what I thought of the measures, i never wore a mask and was upfront about why this was, I spoke out against unnecessary ‘vaccination’ formally, I lowered the tension and fear as much as possible. It was possible to exercise some autonomy even in the depths of the fear campaign. Following orders is never an acceptable excuse, especially when those orders were to terrify, restrict and dehumanise children. We should never forgive anyone who did this, nor let them sweep it under the carpet. What would these people have done in a real emergency?
Nurseries aren’t there to look after children.
A poor take this, our nursery have been fine, never asked for a test, half arsed asked for masks in lockdown 1 last year, never enforced and no one has worn one since June 2021. Even when they had to close my child’s class because of a case (when the bubble crap was in place) there was no testing required. This nursery is rated as outstanding and has a long waiting list. One of the places that has just got on with it. I
f your nursery is asking for tests then move. The fact he tested his son anyway is ridiculous.
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/doomed-fail-top-immunologist-blasts-global-covid-response-driven-false-propaganda
Treat your children well, because you’re training them how to treat you when you’re old.
You think that’s bad, it gets much crueller.
Family of cancer-stricken child runs afoul of vaccine mandate
Boycott macdonalds.
We all decide to what extent we collude with this nonsense. We prioritise things, perhaps you prioritise your work life, your income, your status over your child’s wellbeing. Don’t get me wrong we all do it, I think my children’s secondary school is damaging but don’t home school my children. I think children are in need of less and less parental protection as they get older but also think you could choose not to send them to this nursery.
Child aged 3 has jab due to a vaccine mandate to attend kindergarten and dies within 24 hours of having the jab. How many more has this happened to worldwide?
https://twitter.com/DrStefanieW/status/1481323691824726017
Absolutely agree and here in Scotland where the zero zealots in the SNP Government fund nursery places, neurotic compliance as I term it is even more extreme. I have been having a protracted but reasonably polite evidence-based exchange with a woman on a local online neighbourhood group. She has been increasingly authoritarian about masks using bad arguments to advance her covidian paranoia. She wants the police to intervene and check people’s medical exemption. I genuinely believe she is fearful even when I use evidence explaining how little there is to fear. I and others are also triple vaxed, so we are advancing that protection against the worst outcomes even if she doesn’t buy the immunity arguments. As I have exposed her low quality evidence on masking, and tried to calm her down with the ICU numbers which have barely moved , she has came back with silly arguments such as “we enforce blue badges and force people to pick up after their dogs, so we should enforce masks”. She has gradually exposed herself as a neurotic who wants everyone masked so she can enjoy supermarkets and cinemas without “you breathing on me having been to football and pubs”. That said… Read more »
There are a lot like that now, and more all the time. A friend was yesterday manhandled out of a local charity shop for being barefaced. “You are diseased!” “Don’t breathe your germs over my at-risk wife!” “You’re not exempt!” And physically assaulted in order to push them out of the shop. They are quite mad now.
Answer in that case is to call the police. A fine from the magistrates for common assault is likely to make them think twice about doing it again.
Perhaps the author should have named and shamed the nursery school. If they continue to get away with this stuff, why would they change?
The treatment of our children is a national disgrace. It amounts to child abuse.
I haven’t been allowed in my child’s nursery since this all began and they too ask that I wear a mask outside at pick up and drop off. I don’t and a few other parents don’t either. It’s theatre. They’ve been fairly good on the main though compared to others, until this week when they asked for lateral flows to be taken by all children and evidence they are negative provided. We sent them the Government guidelines which state Children under 5 no longer need do to a test and they did accept it. At the other end of the spectrum – old people’s homes – they are obsessed with testing. My friends Nan is always having to isolate in her room due to positive tests. And my friend is not allowed to go in the home to visit, because she won’t provide evidence she is vaccinated!
Sorry but that is child abuse. The nursery needs to be referred to OFSTED and the local councils child safeguarding team. Even if it was the child’s father there can be no justification for his actions.
We had an email from our kids’ primary school today informing us that someone in the “class community”, i.e. not a pupil, but a relative of one, tested positive.
While there is no longer any requirement for the class to self-isolate, the school (presumably at the direction of the local education authority) are still pushing for any children who have symptoms to have a PCR test.
This is madness and just perpetuating the problems for absolutely no reason.
Both of our kids have mild colds but we will not test them. What difference would it make to their care? They will get exactly the same medicine whether they have COVID or not. And we know that primary school children are at no risk from COVID – in fact the risk from seasonal influenza is higher and we have never tested nor self-isolated for flu.
Madness.
What’s even worse is the obsession with SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing is to the detriment of testing for other conditions. We’ve seen testing labs struggle to get time on PCR kit, struggle to get sufficient reagents, even struggle to obtain basic laboratory consumables and this is now having an effect on the testing and treatment of other conditions e.g. cancer
Keep on resisting and remind them who pays their wages. You will have to stand up to Headteachers as well if this bs continues, and some of them seem to think they have power of attorney over your child, rather than being responsible for delivering state education. There has been a huge difference between the attitudes of teachers and staff at private, paid for schools/sports/childcare and those languising on the public purse.
Overzealous interpretation of the covid rules is especially irksome in schools and childrens settings given the exceptionally low risk to children and those who work with them. Stay up to date as much as you can with facts and data to challenge them. It’s an unfair burden on parents, but since when was anything in this pandemic fair?
Sounds like hell and in this case the parents really are to blame. Here in Northern Ireland it’s always been somewhat relaxed for nursery and under 12s, especially on testing. None of that. Masks of course, but that’s your call to make. Never worn one myself when turning up and it’s never been challenged.
This media driven panic has really done a number of some people.
Child abuse in the UK might well be beyond even the wildest imaginings of the vilest paedophilic psychopaths – such as Ian Brady, Fred West or Jimmy Savile.
Have a look at this video of a young naked boy climbing from a window on the top floor of Buckingham Palace. It’s purported to have been filmed by a Swedish or Swiss tourist in 2015.
The “fact checkers” claim this clip is fake. But the best they can offer to back this up is to claim that it was “a viral hoax circulated to promote an E! fictional TV series ‘The Royals’. The “fact checkers” link to this site to prove the clip was filmed by the makers of this TV series – but when you check this site you don’t see the promotional clip in its original settings that contains the naked youth climbing from the window.
The “fact checkers” are like all regular trolls, they just pick a random link because they assume the reader will have too short an attention span to bother checking it out. They basically believe everyone is stupid and lazy like themselves.
This is the clip in the DM with… Read more »
It’s a fake spliced video. Buckingham Palace doesn’t look like that from the side, the architecture is different. That is Moor Park House.
It’s good to have free speech where people can debate this incident and point out flaws and incorrections in each other’s stances and arguments.
But not good to have mad downticker trolls!
There’s a single down-ticker troll on here and s|he is as regular as clockwork. I can imagine him or her sitting there in their bedroom, drooling over their keyboards, waiting for the next comment so they can pounce and down vote it.
upvote if you knew about the association of this site with HART.
Full disclosure is important so we know what bias’s we are being bbc subjected to.
https://www.hartgroup.org/
This whole sordid episode has certainly exposed the tyrants and irrational, cowardly conformists, as opposed to the heroic, courageous and rational stoics.
There can be no hiding place in future for those who have planned, instigated and enabled this unspeakable evil. And yes I mean you Johnson, Hancock, Whitty, Vallance, Ferguson and co.
There’s making a stand and there is just getting on with it.
if they want theatre then just engage with the theatre.
The fight isn’t with them, the fight needs to be with the politicians that create the environment where these businesses have these rules.
But no need to go the whole way. Do a bit of theatre yourself! Put the swab gently in the kid’s cheek then put it just inside the nose, then do the test. No hurt and very little harm to the kid, nursery pacified. Job done.