Headteacher Mike Fairclough spoke up against the Covid interventions. He saw first-hand what harm school closures and mask mandates do to kids. He asked serious questions about vaccinating youngsters. And he paid a price.
Fairclough has written an emotional piece describing the personal cost of being a whistleblower in defence of children.
The Substack account of UsForThem, the lobby group started by a group of mums to stand up for children during the lockdown, has published his story.
Although I have been cleared of any wrongdoing on all occasions, following independent investigations, these attacks have inevitably taken their toll on me. My 19-year career as a headteacher has been overwhelmingly successful up until this point. My employer, Ofsted and the Department for Education have always supported my educational innovations and celebrated the achievements of the school prior to this time. However, I am now perceived as an extremist and a trouble maker, despite being cleared of the radical allegations against me. I have also been told by former colleagues that I deserve to be punished and should never have spoken out. It appears that any criticism of the Government in relation to its pandemic response and its effects on children is seen as a form of blasphemy by devout followers of the orthodox Covid consensus.
Some of those colleagues believe I was wrong to even question the vaccine roll-out to children because, they tell me, children needed to be vaccinated in order to protect vulnerable adults. I go to sleep thinking about the situation, I dream about it and then wake up in the morning worrying about it again. As a result, my health has suffered in ways which I have never before experienced. I have lost weight, have a constant knot in the pit of my stomach and feel agitated and low much of the time. My personal relationships have also suffered and it feels like every aspect of my life has taken a hit. All because I did my job by blowing the whistle about my safeguarding concerns for the children in my care. This is something which I should be protected for doing, not attacked for, provided I have acted in good faith. I don’t regret speaking out, but I won’t pretend that it has been an easy ride.
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An excellant article – I particulary like your point about saving face. The government made this political stand of lockdown, with the associated dire effect on the economy. They must now realise the we are not dealing with the Black Death, but they have to ease the lockdown slowly so that it looks like they know what they are doing! It’s not their money, after all.
I agree, an excellent article – even better after seeing the UK Governments response to the ‘second wave’. It seems many of the new restrictions are made to counter (future) criticism that it was slow to lockdown at the beginning. Alexander Hamilton is right, ‘political’ fortune is inflaming the minds of men.
I wonder if the shortage of tests has been engineered to get the government out of their own hole? By limiting tests to Joe Public, the number of positives ought to decrease because as we suspect the positives increase when the number of tests increase. This shortage should at the very least prevent the daily positives from rising.
I agree entirely. I have only just come across this website and wish I knew about it earlier, as at the time of your article I thought I was the only person to see the madness.
To sum up how people thought/think we saw a cyclist riding on a dangerous dual carriageway, with black clothes on, no high-vis or lights on – but he did have a face mask on!
Yep. Because the media hadn’t told him he could get hit by a car at night earlier in the day. Troubling how gullible and devoid of original thought so many are.
We need to fire the media. People are getting sick, but we don’t need to be told about Covid every time we turn on TV. We know if we or our loved ones get sick because it actually happens.
I wonder if they’re trying to cause mass hysteria.
But fear produces an emotional response. Terrifying headlines make good clickbait.
“The New Normal” and similar propaganda soundbites scared me more than any disease. It sounds like some want this current state of affairs to be permanent. But not where I live. We’re sick of it. We enjoy socializing and acting like human beings here.
I masked out of fear of infecting others. Doesn’t seem to help much but it is flu season. I quarantined twice when I suspected I had it and feared I might infect the elderly in my neighborhood.
If it were just my own life at risk and the chances were 50% death instead of 0.4% (according to CDC) I’d say “Hang the risk” and go out and LIVE. We’re all going to die anyhow.
I hate this nightmare. But many seem happy with it being permanent. Hermit misanthropes I guess. If they remained quarantined permanently and let the rest of us live like people should, would anyone miss these antisocial, misanthropic cranks?
BTW, the New Normal can’t last forever. When the economy gets worse food shortages and rolling blackouts will further inconvenience us. Wonder how the lockdown zealots will handle those? And how will they cope with no TV or “social” media to tell them their daily thoughts during blackouts?