Leading charities and experts, like Save the Children and the NSPCC, are worried that kids’ experiences during the pandemic aren’t being taken into account in the Covid Inquiry. The Telegraph has the story.
Children are being silenced by the Covid Inquiry and must not be ignored, more than 40 leading charities and experts have warned.
Save the Children U.K. and the NSPCC are among the groups that have come together to write to Baroness Hallett, the Chairman of the inquiry, to demand an explanation for “unacceptable delays” in examining the impact of the pandemic on young people.
They also raise concerns that children are unable to submit statements about their experience of the pandemic to the inquiry, unlike over-18s who have been invited to do so.
It comes despite mounting evidence of the negative effects of lockdown on children, with a recent study revealing that restrictions damaged the emotional development of almost half of children.
Dan Paskins, Director of U.K. Impact at Save the Children, said Baroness Hallett must urgently hear evidence on the impact of Government decisions on pupils.
“Children are being silenced by this inquiry,” he said.
“They must not be ignored. Despite repeated promises from the Chair, the Rt Hon Baroness Heather Hallett, that she would urgently ensure children’s memories are captured and that the issue matters to her, no measures are in place to make this happen.
“Children are not an afterthought or an inconvenience in this inquiry process. Their lives were turned upside down by Government decisions and any barriers in the way of them having their say need to be removed immediately.”
The impact of the pandemic on children was initially omitted from the scope of the inquiry, but Baroness Hallett committed to examining it after the issue was brought to light by the Telegraph.
However, the six modules that have been announced so far do not cover this, and no timetable has been given for any investigation into the impact of the pandemic on children. Baroness Hallett is therefore not expected to hear evidence on this until 2025 or 2026.
The inquiry has so far spent £40 million after hearing just 23 days of evidence.
It has taken a two-month break before it will hear evidence in the autumn on its second module, on political and Government decision-making.
Sir Peter Wanless, Chief Executive of the NSPCC, said the inquiry must act now to avoid millions of children being “defined by the pandemic”.
“Children’s needs often went under the radar during the pandemic but we heard first-hand through Childline and the NSPCC Helpline about its devastating impact on many young people, particularly those subjected to abuse and neglect,” he said.
“Many of the children who suffered the most did so because they were hidden from those who could help them.
“It’s crucial the Covid Inquiry finally gives young people a voice so we can fully understand the support and services required to avoid a generation of children being defined by the pandemic.”
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Equally half of british people are of average, or below, intelligence.
As the great George Carlin phrased it..’Imagine how stupid the average person is, then realise for them to be the average, half of everyone else has to be even more stupid.”
My faith in the levels of common sense amongst my fellow humans has been severely shaken over the last three years, but nevertheless – I do not believe the headline.
Common sense is not that common.
For the pandemic to be over it needs to have started. Yougov you’re having laugh. The gene therapy has increased the chance of infection. Excess mortality have a word with Mr Hancock he might have an answer.
Ah, you mean….
M I D A Z O L A M
“Covid” (precisely, with no added numbers) has been endemic for thousands of years. Roughly a quarter of the “common colds” fit the bill, although it has not been used traditionally. However, part of the problem now is dodgy manipulation of the terms used, either deliberately, or just on account of being a bit lax about it all.
Don’t forget that it was actually the old Common Cold Unit of Salisbury, UK, that invented the term “Coronavirus” in the first place, when it became possible to optically identify items as small as viruses, using electron microscopy. If it had been discovered elsewhere – say across the pond – it might have been given a different name.
eg. CIA19, But I thought it was originally, the curse of the wet market, or Wuhan Floo, or some such. As it turned out the biggest killer seemed to be the medical prescriptions. I think the old common cold got elevated to a virus status as those whom deem themselves to be above the pleb, cannot possibly have a common cold, perish the thought.
Now they are looking for a bat to blame for the next virus, it is the modern version of the medieval witch hunt, the hunt is on to “which” we can blame the next invented medical emergence, starting with animals beginning with “B” Failing that someone might just leave a door open in a lab near you.
“Of course it’s still ongoing. If it wasn’t, those nice people on the telly would have told me.”
Let’s be honest, if the man on the telly box told them that Putin created Covid in his secret laboratory in the basement of the Kremlin, they’d believe it.
I’d predict that 99.9% of DS readers think the pandemic is over.
Scrap that. Maybe 50% think the pandemic is over and 49.9% don’t because they don’t think there ever was a pandemic in the first place (me included).
The remaining 0.1% are the readers from GCHQ or whatever government surveillance agency is busy monitoring dissidents …
You could be right. As I’ve pointed out before, how aware of a “pandemic” would you, your family and your next door neighbour be if not for the media coverage? We would have experienced our health service being overwhelmed at some point in the winter – no difference there to the past couple of decades. We would have experienced some people dying, and coming down with nasty flu – again nothing that differentiates these past years from the past few millennia.
If there were no tests, media propaganda or NHS letters, this pandemic would effectively not have existed. It is one we had to be told to be afraid of, rather than a real pandemic… which we would have been afraid of.
Well there was no pandemic. Covid (if it exists – I think it does, others disagree, I honestly don’t care much and don’t think it matters) is certainly not over – it’s behaving exactly as predicted. What has changed is (1) variants have become even milder (2) everyone has had it and realised they are not going to die of it and (3) people have been told it’s over and/or they are protected by “vaccines”.
More than half of the people who partook in a certain YouGov poll gave a certain answer is something very much different from More than half of Brits believe in something.
Indeed. I do some of their daily surveys and I don’t believe the samples are adjusted for anything, so the “results” are entirely a function of what subset of the UK population is inclined to do YouGov surveys. Meaningless. Most people I know were covidians at the time, almost none seem worried now.
Of course!
Why would the Banksters´ Brainwashing Cartel end a good control mechanism prematurely?
The online version of my local paper, the Wakefield Express, may give an indication as to why people might still believe that Covid-19 remains an issue. As of today, their section on “Coronavirus”, which is second only in prominence to “Lastest News”, carries the lead story “13 More Covid-Related Deaths Recorded in Wakefield”. Obviously, I was drawn to this story which clearly conflicts with my own knowledge of the local situation, and saw that the article is dated 7 January 2023, the date being presented very discreetly in light grey print. Two other alarmist articles by the same author, Leanne Clarke, which appear alongside it were dated December 2022 and January 2023. Clearly, the continued regurgitation of this story is not accidental, as other stories on the newspaper’s website are updated at least weekly. The newspaper is aware that people will ingest the alarming headline without noting the dates, and the more unquestioning may even believe now that Wakefield has reported 13 Covid deaths per week since the start of the year. It’s totally irresponsible, and quite obviously deliberate, so you probably just have to ask who’s putting up the money….
I wouldn’t pay attention to what eighty percent of people think. They really aren’t set in their ways at all this isn’t some deep conviction more like the line of least resistance. You can ignore things but they won’t ignore you. You will be forced into difficult decisions in the supermarket whether you like it or not. We are led by very dim people. Any cursory glance at history shows that hyperinflation is the most de-stabilzing force in the world and it isn’t that far off. The response will not be pleasant or what you might’ve hoped for but that is the reality that has to be faced.
40%.
Remember this.
It comprises the wilfully ignorant and/or workshy and/or beneficiaries from lockdown. The same group probably voted remain and probably believe in the climate scam.
Don’t be surprised when you see the magic 40 appear again.
This is what happens to a country which indoctrinates its children, protects its taxpayer funded national broadcaster, incentivises skiving and destroys the faith of its ancestors.
Technically, can a pandemic be over in just one country? I think we’ve already seen that a disease doesn’t need to qualify as an epidemic in order to be a pandemic, so the p word seems to be of limited utility
I bet I’m not the only person not to have known personally a single person who has had covid. Yes, I’ve heard of people locally having it, but not in my (admittedly rather small!) circle of family and friends.
By contrast I know quite a lot of people who now have unusual illnesses post vaccination, and two vaccinated people who have died suddenly despite appearing healthy.
Simple answer: More than half of Brits aren’t Brits
Covid never was a pandemic. It was endemic, it was a plandemic, man manipulated corona virus. There never was a pandemic. how could anyone not know at this late date covid was man manipulated corona virus. It has been written about everywhere. The sheeple believe what they want despite witnessing the reality.
“vaccine-induced immunity”? Yeah right! Is that why the gene therapy didn’t stop transmission or contraction?
…and now in glorious colour
The above chart is ten calculated natural epidemic curves with parameters selected to match the ONS’ data for ‘death where Covid-19 is mentioned’… with the actual ONS data traced along the top. It’s a series of overlapping Gompertz curves. The G2 curve corresponds to the time when the ‘Alpha’ (or Kent) variant was in the news and
G3 corresponds to news of ‘Delta’ (or Indian) variant.
The death count for Alpha and Delta are similar. The Alpha curve is lower but wider.
If an epidemiologist produces a prediction which does not fit a Gompertz curve then they’re wrong.