A new report by Ofsted on the impact of lockdown on children shows the social and physical development of babies has been greatly stunted by the response to Covid. Michael Curzon in the Express has more.
Based on its analysis, Ofsted reported “delays in babies’ and children’s speech and language development” and the fact “some babies have struggled to respond to basic facial expressions”.
Other than those with whom they lived, babies and children spent much of the past two years either completed isolated from humans or, when in public, unable to look properly at and learn from the faces of those around them.
Ofsted said: “Children turning two years old will have been surrounded by adults wearing masks for their whole lives and have therefore been unable to see lip movements or mouth shapes as regularly.”
For many babies, even the first sight of their mother was shielded by a face mask, with some hospitals telling mothers they had to wear a mask during labour, despite official rules, and despite questions over the effectiveness of face masks.
One mother, Rosie Brown, who suffers from emetophobia, a phobia of vomit, told the BBC last May a mask “was just put on my face” – an action she did not question because “we have become so conditioned to wearing them” following numerous, graphic Government-led campaigns.
She said this made her “panic”, that “in among the claustrophobia and the pain, I was panicking that I was going to vomit inside my mask”.
Worth reading in full.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
should have done a cost/benefit analysis
Which civil servant, government minister, or government scientist would have dared say that to Big Pharma?
Yes – imagine standing up for the rights of babes in arms!
And imagine how horrendously common sense has to be have been destroyed or overwhelmed to allow this to happen.
Should have said ministers could only impose this if they had defeated either Anthony Joshua or Tyson Fury in a bare-knuckle boxing contest.
If pushed, a win over Frank Bruno, Lennox Lewis or David Haye would have sufficed….
COST Soul
BENEFIT: Knighthood, Trip on Air Epstein v2 etc.
Well, who’d have thought it?
Great job lockdowners.
I’ve had big blazing arguments here with the “it’s just a mask, don’t be selfish” brigade.
I’d love to send them some I told you so’s but I really don’t think they will a) care or b) ever admit they were wrong. Also c) I’m fed up of arguing with lefties, 2 years is my limit.
Amazingly most of the comments on that article are “No, not true” “Well then you failed as a parent” – even when their own (left leaning is my understanding) paper reports an about face they won’t accept it.
The Daily Express isn’t leftwing. Why are you talking about the left anyway? I’m leftwing. Most of what is called the “left” is fake. Being in favour of a redistribution of wealth doesn’t mean I think a person with a todger and a pair of gonads should be called a “woman” if that’s what he’s mentally ill enough to think he is.
Tyson Fury has decided he needs your wallet more than you do so he’s redistributing it to his pocket.
Not many people seem to remember or (have ever known) that the common distinguishing feature of the left was a belief that a small minority of people had far too much wealth and power at the expense of others – those others constituting the majority of humankind.
For the benefit of those who don’t realise that, there was (and is) great difference of opinion on the left about what should be done about the situation.
Leftist political parties, on the other hand, became increasingly disinterested in all this and chose other topics on which to expend their vocal energies. Perhaps it got put in the too-hard basket. Their leaders were particularly exasperated by the differences of opinion on the methods to be employed in redistributing wealth.
Redistribution always tends to CONCENTRATE wealth even more.
Not always.
Except that the answer from the left was socialism.
This is like advocating punches from Mike Tyson as a healing aid for punches from Evander Holyfield.
I’m always advocating the speeches of Adam Smith, David Ricardo, JS Mill and W Churchill.
But I get called a Communist for doing so
That was one of the answers – and there were and are many different ideas on what “socialism” means, let alone how it should be achieved.
The ‘it’s just’ brigade are both moronically stupid and highly dishonest, ‘it’s just the government forcing absurdity on you because they can’ is an accurate summary of what really happened.
Don’t give up. They’re in it for the long-haul. And now, they’ve woken up their ‘sleepers’.
Send it to Ian Hislop at Private Eye. The former scourge of the establishment was a cheerleader for the “it’s just a mask, don’t be selfish” brigade.
Private Eye has become all but unreadable with its cheerleading for vaccines and many cartoons poking fun at so called ‘anti -vaxxers’ or anyone who does not follow and approve the government line on covid. The column by ‘MD’ is almost vomit making in its sycophancy. What on earth happened to their formerly excellent probing and enquiring journalism?
Agree with you 100% – I have had Private Eye on order for over 30 years and was greatly disappointed to see ‘M.D.’ stick his tongue right up Chris Whitty’s bottom.
P-Eye did do a ‘Profits of Doom’ expose of companies/people who enriched themselves ordering ‘PPE’ and suchlike, to be fair.
P-Eye’s ‘anti-vaxxer’ stance looks like it’s straight out of Susan Michie’s kitchen.
I dropped my subscription about five years ago. Private Eye is a pathetic comic which is no longer relevant.
It disappeared, followed shortly by my subscription.
Hislop was bought off years ago with tv and licence payer money. He is an establishment tool.
I’ll eventually be able to meet my parents again this year, after two years of being forcibly separated from them. The It’s just …-brigade is going to be entirely unsuccessful with their habitual attempt to downplay the detrimental effects of the nonsense championed by them by framing it as negligible whenever it was mentioned over here.
My idea of an appropriate reply to that would be That’s just a 4.4 lb military issue boot connecting with your shin, don’t make such a fuss about it!
Every time I pass a masked up kid I say out loud “child abuse!”
How can they say they didn’t know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0
That was fascinating. Should be shown everywhere.
Thank you.
But at least we ‘controlled the virus’. Whitty/Valance and BJ need jailing.
Preferably with a 22-stone, hairy behemoth called Bubba, who’d make them ‘his little puppies’.
Preferably wielding a square ended broom handle.
Rough end of a pineapple would serve the same purpose.
I can think of far more suitable punishments than jailing that bunch.
Off you go to grab them then!
No shit, Sherlock?
I asked the very same question when face nappies were mandated as very young children identify with their mothers by facial recognition. If a mother chops and changes her facial appearance every-time she goes into somewhere where nappies were required, would this have an impact of the mother-baby bonding process. I guess any potential sociological impacts wont be fully identified for several years yet.
I wonder if in future criminal cases a defence will be “he was a child during Covid and didn’t identify with his mother or adults”, m’lud.
Maskmania
Of course they are.
Stunting the mental development of children apparently saves lives, according to the Branch Covidian Communist Doomsday cultist party.
‘First, do no harm’ (to Big Pharma).
Anyone heard about the new “hepatitis” epidemic in children under 10? Wonder why this is a thing…? I mean, it’s not like this could be in any way connected to the fact that Pfizer have said the vaccine tends to accumulate in the liver…
https://news.sky.com/story/hepatitis-parents-warned-to-check-for-signs-after-70-under-10s-found-to-have-liver-illness-12583961
Never would have occurred to me in a million f*****g years.
May they rot in Hell.
Selfishly I’m almost glad that this has given my own children a competitive advantage, having never had to look at a masked lunatic for more than 5 minutes and always whilst witnessing their father’s disdain and/or subsequent ridicule. Poor babes I’ve seen wheeled around by masked mothers. What an evil trick to pay on society.
The current generation of under fives will be the prototype slave generation.
With such confused emotions. The clip provided by Paul B shows a baby’s distress and bewilderment when encountering a switched-off or blank face, after experiencing an engaged one.
I’ve seen that vid before and it upsets me greatly.
now we have an outbreak of Hepatitis in children. Scientists are baffled. What could they have been exposed to recently?
Just had an unexpected mask challenge in the opticians of all places. Came as a bit of a shock and I hadn’t prepared for it.
It’s particularly infuriating that places populated by people with supposed medical knowledge are the ones still shitting on science. On the flip side I’m somewhat reassured by the way masking has been handled by the British public; awkward, uncomfortable but not in my experience that fascistic.
I had the same in specsavers. Told them I do not subscribe to ‘that nonsense’ he didn’t ask again! If you notice the maskists remain in all the places that are basically public sector and have no competition. If there is an opticians or dentists or doctors surgery that bans masks they would have all my business.
It’s absolutely disgraceful. Talk about advertising your idiot credentials.
HTF do we process this:
Saw a GP this morning – utter waste of time, space and taxpayers money – but I had to sit and listen to her nonsense with her masked up. And all the bloody medical staff were.
These people are supposed to have a grounding in science yet it appears none of them understand that these damned masks not only serve no purpose they actually undermine good health. Talk about rubbishing your own position.
I have lost almost all respect for GPs. A minority might have stood up against this anti-science, but the majority have enabled it, as they could have stopped all the nonsense in its tracks had they challenged the scam.
That’s exactly how I feel. I have more contempt for medical workers after the last two years than just about anyone, and that’s saying something.
I called mine out on it, her and the Asthma nurse were insisting I wore one, I basically said “look I’m not prepared to spend the other half of my appointment arguing with you, there’s decades of evidence that proves they do nothing, are you refusing to treat me or not?”. A most unpleasant experience for someone with severe anxiety who was dangerously depressed at the time.
An absolute disgrace frankly.
When asked in future which GP I’d like to see? I think I’ll answer, “One that didn’t wear a mask during Covid.” although I fear it might be a very short list.
Well done for making a stand. These morons need to be confronted.
You could have asked: “Are there any with British names?”
It’s completely infuriating. I don’t want anything to do with ‘healthcare’ ever again. Trust is at rock bottom.
The propaganda behind the wearing of muzzles has been 100% reprehensible and wrong. The only thing it appears to have done is make money for those involved
Remember 2006 when a Muslim woman was fired from her teaching assistant job for wearing a burka ?
Her job was teaching the children how to pronounce words.
Less than fifteen years later, teachers had to cover their faces in class.
This was a purposeful bombardment of absurdities from the government, aimed at its real enemy: the human mind.
It’s not over: Globalists still using covid-19 to mind control people into submission
https://www.newstarget.com/2022-04-06-globalists-using-covid-to-mind-control-people.html
By Arsenio Toledo
Stand for freedom with our Yellow Boards By The Road next events
Saturday 9th April 2pm to 3pm
Yellow Boards
Loddon Bridge, A329 Reading Rd,
Winnersh (Outside Showcase)
Wokingham RG41 5HG
Tuesday 12th April 5.30pm to 6.30pm
Yellow Boards By the Road
Junction Broad Lane/
A3095 Bagshot Lane
Bracknell RG12 9NW
Stand in the Park Sundays from 10am – make friends & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens
(Cockpit Path car park free on Sunday)
Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Bracknell
South Hill Park, Rear Lawn, RG12 7PA
Telegram http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
There is no Bagshot Lane in Bracknell.
That year, everyone had lost their minds, and decided to wear metal buckets on their heads. Because of Science. Anyone who didn’t wear a bucket on their head was taken out the back and pelted with rotten vegetables. They were good times. The following year, it was discovered that all the children’s teeth had fallen out and none of them knew their times tables. But this was considered a small price to pay, because of the Science. The people picked up the rotten vegetables and fed them to the children, because that was all they had left to eat. They painted the buckets blue and yellow, and stuck them back on their heads. Everyone said don’t worry, it was only a cock-up.
And everyone went out on a Thursday evening 8:00pm and threw rotten vegetables at their own houses.
made me so proud!
It is disturbing how easy it is to rid people of all sense of morality.
And all common sense as well!
That said, common sense was probably never especially common.
Witnessed this firsthand today on a train back from London. Empty carriage apart from me and mother with baby. She was masked and the baby was distressed. She used the mask like a game and pulled it down to say ‘mummy’ and the baby stopped crying. She would then pull it back up and it would cry again. I offered to move so she could remove the mask if she wanted but she declined and continued with the theatre. Was really sad to watch and could clearly see the child was very interested in my unmasked face.
Well documented https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apzXGEbZht0
Bloody woman certainly not fit to be a parent.
How frightening for a child in an already frightening situation, ie hospital, not to be able to be reassured by seeing its parent’s face and smile.
.
Yet another side effect that should have e been predicted but no-our “experts” like Va llance and the Proje t Fear group w ere too usy removing everyone civ il liberties to give a damn
Were the hospitals going to throw women out the door whilst in labour, if they tore of a mask and screamed at staff to eff off?
There is an awful lot of behaviour recently that can only be described as evil. The worst kind of abuse is being visited upon us and so many support it. I am depressed by the majority of my fellow humans.