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.
The damage to our children highlighted in recent reports and briefly summarised below should act as a clarion call and a warning that we should never close schools again, never send children home to isolate and avoid wearing masks around children. And the whole edifice has been based on the fear-inducing, ineffective and harm-causing masks and the totally misleading and flawed PCR tests.
As I revealed in these two articles, the tragedy is the evidence was there from the start, before we inflicted such damaging policies on our children.
This article addresses the question, What do we do now?
First, a brief reminder of what the education reports found. The Ofsted report highlighted a huge range of damaging impacts including:
- delays in babies’ physical development;
- a generation of babies struggling to crawl and communicate;
- toddlers struggling with speech and language;
- regression in children’s independence.
Research by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) found that the negative impact of Covid lockdowns continues as children get older. The impact of lockdowns on the development of literacy skills at an early age is of “particular concern”, the report states, as “early reading plays a key part in children’s later achievement”. It adds:
We found that, compared to what we would have expected pre-pandemic, there were well over double the proportion of children who barely scored any marks on the reading assessments in Year 1 and in Year 2 in the last school year.
The observations of the Head of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists in Northern Ireland back up what the reports say: “A growing number of young children are experiencing significant communication problems following the Covid lockdowns. We’re seeing young children who can’t talk at all.”
These findings should set alarm bells ringing.
Does it matter?
The importance of these early years is highlighted in the recently published Fair Start report into educational underachievement.
The scale of the tragedy is underlined by the substantial body of research contained in the report. It emphasises that “children’s early experiences have a profound and lasting impact on their future learning and development”, and confirms that “investing in quality early childhood education for disadvantaged children has significant and long term benefits for individuals and society”.
A study by the New South Wales Government quantifies the harm. Its finding that 90% of brain development takes place in the first five years (2,000 days) of life underlines the crucial importance of not making the same mistakes again.
Are children at risk from Covid? What were the risks to young children for which many have paid such a heavy and potentially life changing price? Data show children have a 99.999% survival chance if they contract the virus.
And we already knew. The data have been clear since March 2020. According to Dr. David Bell, a world renowned public health official, “Most people, working age adults and very young children were at very very low risk”. He maintains that “accurate data and balanced evidence should be made available to the public and key decision makers to make decisions that are in everyone’s interest”.
Unlike the rest of the world, Sweden maintained some semblance of normality. The citizens of this country generally didn’t have to wear face masks, young children continued going to school, leisure activities were largely allowed to continue unhindered. Why didn’t we look more closely?
One analysis compared the death tolls in over 50 countries, including the U.K., that had locked down, countries that had variously shut down playgrounds, forced their children to wear facemasks and closed schools. The research found that they have all been hit worse than Sweden in terms of total Covid mortality. This means that “almost every single government intervention, in particular, lockdowns, school closures, mask mandates, mass testing and ‘contact tracing’”, as well as ‘vaccine passports’, have been entirely ineffective and unjustified while having caused almost unprecedented social and economic harm”.
This is a finding confirmed by Professor Robert Dingwall, who reports on data published by the WHO on estimates of excess deaths globally for 2020 and 2021. It looked at data across Europe and found that Sweden had half the excess death rate of the U.K., Germany or Spain.
This research shows the fallacy of closing schools to prevent transmission and save adult lives.
Learning for children is a continuous process – it cannot take place in fits and starts.
There will be a widening gap between those whose parents are willing and able to help and those who are not. For those who are challenged by education, it is disastrous.
Children need to socialise – playgroup, school, sport, choir, clubs and so on are vital for children’s health, mental health and for their development.
What about children living in cramped conditions, what about the rising tide of abuse and self-harm, how do they learn and develop?
Speaking at the “Question Everything” conference in July 2021, Dr. Zenobia Storah, a Senior Clinical Psychologist within the NHS, said “the Government disregarded everything we know about human beings”, adding “[we are seeing] a massive increase in mental stress across all age groups, a huge deterioration in young people when schools are closed – self harm, abuse, eating disorders… we have totally failed children”.
The children were not in a place where they could work, study, learn and develop.
The Government view that technology can make up for lost learning is not supported by the evidence. The Netherlands, the country best placed to operate a technology-based home education system reported: “Losses are up to 60% larger among students from less-educated homes, confirming worries about the uneven toll of the pandemic on children and families. The findings imply that students made little or no progress while learning from home and suggest losses even larger in countries with weaker infrastructure or longer school closures.”
And how is this technology relevant for babies and very young children?
Just a word about the reliability of the test. Is it a sufficiently robust tool to use to close schools and nurseries, send huge numbers of children home and into isolation and thereby destroy their education, development and life chances?
Professor Jack Lambert, Ireland’s leading infectious disease expert, said:
PCR cannot distinguish infectious live virus from residual dead virus or viral fragments from previous infection. Therefore many ‘cases’ have no real meaning in terms of medical status or transmission potential; it will probably identify harmless viral fragments and the test will be deemed ‘positive’. In Ireland, Ct value cut-offs of 35-45 are the norm. High Ct values (over 35 or even 30) suggest a non-infectious patient,
Yet we have been applying a cycle frequency in the range 40-45.
Professor Richard Ennos of Edinburgh University expressed it thus in the Belfast Newsletter:
The PCR test is completely useless for the purpose for which it is being employed – namely the detection of COVID-19 infected individuals who can infect others. Furthermore since children are hardly affected, and show vanishingly small frequencies of transmission to adults, there is no reason to be worried about SARS-CoV-2 passing through children at school.
Therefore the PCR test results are completely inappropriate for providing evidence of whether there is an outbreak in a school.
As Dr. Ros Jones, retired NHS Consultant Paediatrician, speaking on the Pandemic podcast on January 26th 2022, said: “The closure of schools [was] for no good reason.”
The sad reality is that children’s well being, development 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 harms and were known to do so. The damage to children was immense and potentially long lasting.
What should we do?
- There should be substantial investment in these early years.
- Accurate contextual information should also be provided to the public to enable them to make decisions about their own health and that of their families, including the actual risks to children.
- A significant and substantive risk/benefit analysis must be carried out before we embark on potentially destructive policies such as school closures, isolating and quarantining children, mask wearing, mass testing.
- Until this is carried out, parents should be informed that it is not scientifically justified to wear a mask around young children and that so doing harms their development.
- Children should not be masked.
And we should follow the example of Professor Ennos:
Children are the most precious gift we can receive. They trust us to care, protect and love them in a difficult world. In the last 18 months we have utterly betrayed this trust and subjected them to wholly unnecessary and hugely damaging and degrading treatments in the name of keeping ourselves safe.
I am utterly ashamed of the immoral and selfish behaviour of the adult generations who have condoned this masking and PCR testing of children. The only honourable step that we can take, as adults, is immediately to remove these restrictions on our children, and ask their forgiveness for the wrong we have done them.
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Saskatchewan ‘full of psychopathic misogynistic racist trucker-loving Nazis’, says Trudeau in sh
llck interview.It’s a change from ‘far-right anti-vaxxer extremists’, anyhow.
Andrew Lilico in The Telegraph – “we must prepare for future pandemics.”
Obviously, the question is “why?”
Are these non pandemic “pandemics” going to be a regular feature of our lives and if so for what reason?
Charlie Windsor – you boy, you barmy idiot, what did Uncle Klaus advise?
Snap to it and stop muttering to that Dialia.
What would be the point?
As we have seen in recent times that the Government will just as likely do the exact opposite of what you prepared to do regardless.
My thought exactly. There was a pandemic plan in place, but the one thing it didn’t allow for was a government full of technically-illiterate bedwetters advised by Common Purpose placemen ‘scientists’.
Because Bill who funds the Telegraph told him to?
As things appear to be winding down, the global oligarchs want to make sure that their gains from this crisis don’t get rolled back.
As governments around the world begin to take away the emergency laws, they will be pressed into rewriting the law. They will argue that governments need more agility responding to a future “pandemics” which basically means non-emergency laws that give them the same power they have in an emergency. And the trigger will only have to be an alert from the WHO or the National Health Service, which is controlled by the oligarchs, as we already know.
Leaving aside the fact that there has been no pandemic, prior strategies were prepared, based on actual data and analysis. They proved reasonably accurate and appropriate.
Unfortunaly they were chucked in the bin on a political whim.
For reason of the upcoming cold war with Russia/China. There you go.
Jeremy Farrar – the solution to C1984 is “better vaccines.”
So the current crop are crap?
Well played Sir.
What a chunt.
Apologies if I posted this yesterday, but Graham Hood, possibly the most famous ex-QANTAS pilot ever, speaks here about his interactions with police at the Canberra Truck Convoy. Remarkably positive.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/T2d09ZpiKWh7/
Daily Skeptic still feeding the narrative. As long as we avoid tackling the issue, the absurd notion of cough and kill granny (there is no virus) there are no effective arguments against curbs on freedom.
Is anyone else having to log in daily? I’ve had to three days in a row.
I always have to. ‘keep me logged in’ doesn’t work.
Click on ‘keep me logged in’ before putting your email and password in. It keeps you logged in for a good few days doing it that way.
Thanks, I’ll try it.
Snap.
Snap.
Ditto. We’re obviously sinners and unworthy.
Probably your browser settings blocking cookies. Or if you use something like duckduckgo browser, you need to “fireproof” this site.
Laura Dodsworth notes “we’ve made a casualty of conscience” in the “war on COVID.”’ This is made possible only because those driving the fight have no conscience. They’ve waged a war on the people, (whose humanity they disdain), not on the virus.
Illinois Democrat demands concentration camps for anti-vaxxers
https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-02-02-illinois-democrat-demands-concentration-camps-for-anti-vaxxers.html
by: Mike Adams
We need far more people at all our events here
if we want the tyranny to end for good
Saturday 5th February 2pm
Windsor Great Dog Walk for Freedom
behind one simple sign
“Covid Rules Are Barking”
All Canines and Humans welcome
Even if you don’t own a dog please come along
meet Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor SL4 1QY
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
authoritarians need to be rounded up and placed in camps
The trucker protest in Ottawa and the blockading of the border between Montana and Alberta in support of the Freedom Convoy are having a huge impact, and not just in Canada. Even though they are getting very little press coverage (except occasionally when they mischaracterize the movement), they are an inspiration to people all over the world.
“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”!
All is now crystal clear.
When will the pandemic be over?
When the ‘new normal’ is fully establsihed and the corporate elites feel confident that it can not be undone.
Anyone for more vaccine?
…warning that classroom doors “play a key role in preventing smoke and fire from spreading within buildings”…
So education departments can now add another confounding variable to their risk assessments – fire certificates withdrawn for the said schools! Alternatively, the local fire service inspectors exposure to the risk of negligence if they don’t and the unthinkable occurs. Not really one of her best thought out decisions.
Yes, but just think, when the fire safety reports come in, the schools would have to send everyone home! The teachers will love this!
It’s hard to believe that a senior politician can publicly voice ideas which are so obviously ridiculous that anyone with half a brain should be able to see this immediately.
How could she not be aware that fire doors are designed to slow the spread of fire, and as such have to fit their frame closely and should only be held open using systems linked to (or responding to) the fire alarm so that the doors will automatically close if the alarm goes off?
Has it not occurred to her that a fire door with a sizeable gap under it is going to be pretty useless at slowing the spread of a fire?
A fire seeks oxygen. A gap under a fire door will therefore promote the fire.
From now on I shall be flying a huge Canadian flag and in honour of the brave truckers and their supporters. They are an inspiration to us all.
But passing zombies might think you’re a Turdeauist!
‘Sir Jeremy Farrar says the “long-term solution” to Covid is better vaccines, ‘
No, the long term solution is listening to better scientists who are honest.
The long term solution is to just treat it like a cold – if you are unwell, stay at home, otherwise ignore it (not that anyone would know they were “Infected” anyway without the obsessive and unreliable testing)
That said, they do need to handle it better in healthcare settings, but the question of effective treatments for severe cases hasn’t had the attention it deserves because effective treatments would have made the emergency approvalm for the clotshots even more shaky than they were anyway.
Also finding a way to prevent involution of the thymus would be handy, as that’s why older folk have poorer immune function.
Just in case anyone doesn’t get it: The Babylon Bee cited above is a political satire site. It tries to mimic The Onion, another US satirical newspaper-themed site, but back in the day when The Onion was actually funny. Except The Babylon Bee is even less funny than the decidedly unfunny present-day Onion. The Babylon Bee has a decidedly right-wing, US Conservative bent.
Joe Biden never had any intention of nominating Whoopi Goldberg to the US Supreme Court.
gee, really? So glad you told me, I never would have guessed a satirical newspaper was taking the piss.
Indeed. In this Orwellian parallel universe that we have slipped into, nominating Whoopi to the supreme court isn’t obvious satire.
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Yeah, well, unless you know ahead of time that the Babylon Bee is actually a satire site, then Daily Sceptic readers could be forgiven for getting a little confused.
This is a largely UK-focused site. So assuming that the average reader here is going to be familiar with the minutiae of conservative-Christian US comedy strikes me as a pretty bad bet.
Absolutely, Drew. I read that in the early hours and was ‘a bit puzzled’, but as others have pointed out I just thought ‘nothing would surprise me….’. So silly of me not to know, like ‘A Heretic’ up there, that Babylon Bee is a satirical site.
Are you sure?
The Bee’s only problem is that reality has become almost indistinguishable from satire.
ridiculous 6 month old satire is now policy championed on every MSM telescreen and those opposed get their 5 minutes of hate.
It’s not the Bee‘s story, editorial bent, (or even existence) that’s the problem here.
The problem is that the Daily Sceptic made an editorial decision to include a demonstrably false headline in its news roundup. The Sceptic‘s editors either knew, or should have known, that the assertion made in that headline was false. Either they knew Babylon Bee was a satire site, or they didn’t bother to check out it’s credibility as a news source.
Imagine if The Telegraph or The Guardian operated on the policy of having one in twenty of headline news stories being deliberately false and/or “satirical” – and then just leaving it to their readers to figure out which was which.
Maybe that’s a distinction too subtle for many of the readers (and commenters) here. But it’s an important one. Satire has it’s place, but not mixed in real journalism.
If you’re expecting true or unbiased headlines from DS, you’re in for many bad surprises.
That senile mummy wouldn’t know she’s a shit actor and not a judge
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10473937/Now-Prof-Lockdown-slams-shock-study-draconian-curbs-reduced-Covid-deaths-0-2.html
Professor Neil Ferguson AKA Professor Never F’inright should be put in a permanent lockdown, well away from civilisation to avoid further harm.
For the second day running, an article pointing out that overflow capacity for the NHS has stood unused and cost around £10 million.
What’s the problem? That’s exactly what we want, expanded capacity in case there is a surge so that politicians don’t use the excuse that the hospitals are over-run to bring in their totalitarian measures. And if there is no surge, brilliant.
At £10 million that sort of insurance is a bargain, compared to the hundreds of billions lockdowns and other measures have cost.
Criticising unused surge capacity is dumb. Really, really dumb.
Fair point.
However, as they never had the staff, the idea was pure idiocy!
It’s also concrete proof that this was no ’emergency’ epidemic.
But if you accept putting money down the drain to maintain “surge capacity”, you should also accept preemptive vaccinations “just in case a new evil mutation jumps out of the bushes”.
The Mail is NOT correct.
I posted yesterday.
that Brussels is proposing to extend the use of health passports until 20 June 2023. this link is in Dutch.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/322540170/brussel-wil-coronareispas-met-jaar-verlengen
or in Spanish.
https://elpais.com/sociedad/2022-02-02/bruselas-extiende-la-aplicacion-del-certificado-covid-hasta-verano-de-2023.html
this one in French
https://www.rtl.be/info/belgique/societe/coronavirus-le-certificat-covid-va-etre-prolonge-par-l-ue-jusqu-a-l-ete-2023-1354762.aspx
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Nicola thinks we should cut a bit off classroom doors…… When I want more ventilation I normally open a window, or even open a door…..
Remember the story about the Chinese who thought that the only way to get roast pork was to burn down the house with the pigs inside?
Would this be the house of commons? Not such a bad idea, then!
Masky Mark and The Danfuhrer will be clutching the pillows very tight around their ears tonight.
“We cannot continue to suspend duly enacted laws and treat COVID-19 as a public health emergency indefinitely. After two years, it’s no longer feasible or necessary. The flu and other infectious illnesses are part of our everyday lives, and coronavirus can be managed similarly,” stated Gov. Reynolds. “State agencies will now manage COVID-19 as part of normal daily business, and reallocate resources that have been solely dedicated to the response effort to serve other important needs for Iowans.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/02/iowa-gov-kim-reynolds-end-covid-19-emergency-declaration-state-will-deal-covid-19-flu/
Now there’s a speech that needs to be spread far and wide.
Yes I saw that yesterday. It was epic!
The Truth is like a lion.
You don’t have to defend it.
Let it loose, it will defend itself.
St. Augustine
re “Fire safety concerns raised over Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to chop off classroom doors” – How about having the gap run down the side of the door?
ajar (əˈdʒɑː)
adj, adv (postpositive)
(esp of a door or window) slightly open
When is a door not a door? When it’s ajar.
There’s one slight problem that you have not considered – a gap down the side won’t cost £150 a pop. But, more importantly, it does not serve as a demonstration of Sturgeon being proactive (hate that word btw), whereas, mobilising an army of lumberjacks does.
Following these guidelines may reduce the costs involved.
https://www.familyhandyman.com/project/how-to-cut-off-wood-door-bottoms/
stable doors might be an idea though
But which half do you leave open – the top or the bottom? This tricky question would probably require the government to convene an advisory group…
Lol
There’s a gap in Nicola Ceucescus head and her brains have fallen out!
Great speech by Dr Julie Ponesse. And thanks to the Truckers.
Also, nice letter from Trevor of Trimley to the Anti-Christ of Canterbury.
Veran is as mad as Fauci, and just as corrupt.
Back to normal? Just take a look at the cross border travel requirements.
Watching The Olympics Is Participating In Genocide
https://rumble.com/vtzy2e-watching-the-olympics-is-participating-in-genocide.html
Bannons War Room
We need far more people at all our events here
if we want the tyranny to end for good
Saturday 5th February 2pm
Windsor Great Dog Walk for Freedom
behind one simple sign
“Covid Rules Are Barking”
All Canines and Humans welcome
Even if you don’t own a dog please come along
meet Alexander Park (near Bandstand) Barry Rd/Goswell Rd
Windsor SL4 1QY
Stand in the Park Sundays 10am make friends, ignore the madness & keep sane
Wokingham Howard Palmer Gardens Cockpit Path car park Sturges Rd RG40 2HD
Henley Mills Meadows (at the bandstand) Henley-on-Thames RG9 1DS
Telegram Group
http://t.me/astandintheparkbracknell
I’ve got to post this.
Just came out of a Lakeland shop in Kendal, UK. Of course at the door was the usual hand sanitiser along with this very eloquent message:
Hand and Glove Sanitiser Station.
You really couldn’t make this crap up.
W T …..??.??
Did you sanitize your nose glove as instructed?