What are we doing to our Children 10?
‘What are we doing to our children in the name of Covid safety?’ Newsletter 9th December 2021
Further to your Morning View, I wholly agree that the children have lost enough schooling.
‘Pupils have already lost too much schooling for an extended break’,
Further to your editorial, I wholly agree that the children have lost enough. Your editorial calls for responses such as “driving up” vaccine rates among health and care workers. But driving up vaccines among children should not be part of the answer.
The NAHT is highlighting that schools are no longer functioning as they need to “primarily the result of Covid related staff absence” caused by the PCR testing process. Children need “their” teacher and education needs continuity.
So again we are making the children suffer because of our irrational, fear driven disproportionate response to yet another variant.
Even the doctor who reported it, cannot understand our reaction, “I have seen nothing new in this variant that warrants the extreme reaction of the UK government—no one in SA has been hospitalised” Dr Coetzee, Chair of the S.African Medical Association.
COVID rules are blamed for a 23% fall in young children's development: Key cognitive test scores have slumped, with face mask rules among the culprits. “children born during the pandemic have significantly reduced verbal, motor, and overall cognitive performance compared to children born pre-pandemic.” The early learning mean result dropped from just under 100 in 2019 to 77 in 2021. With children with special needs disproportionately affected.
'In addition,' the report adds, 'masks worn in public settings and in school or day care settings impact a range of early developing skills, such as attachment, facial processing, and socioemotional processing.'
And do we imagine that the ongoing fear propaganda will have no lasting effect on our young people, who are witnessing so called democratic regimes imprisoning their citizens if they refuse to take an experimental “vaccine.”
An atmosphere of fear prevails, no jab, no job, no jab no school, no jab, no church, no jab no health care? No jab no life.
All because of a virus from which they have a 99.99% survival chance. No healthy child has died in the USA. The US Centre for Disease Control reports that under 50s have a 99.98% survival chance-and children, according to the PHE, do not transmit it, “they aren’t taking it home, kids have very little capacity to infect household members." Why would you vaccinate children?
The lowest risk is in children aged 5-11 without comorbidities. In this group the case fatality couldn’t be calculated due to an absence of cases.
Denying young people education on the basis of a flawed test is potentially disastrous for them.
“Covid testing in schools should be brought to an end for the sake of children's education.
The current regime in secondary schools is causing unnecessary chaos. Children who are not at risk from the virus should not be forced to carry the burden of the pandemic” according to Camilla Kingdon, President of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
And who or what are we protecting by coercing young people into being injected. And the potential for adverse reactions is being ignored, with children having a six times greater chance of being hospitalised from the vaccine than from Covid.
Why are we threatening to remove the very activities which protect their mental health if they do not get injected with something which might damage their physical health?
Children are suffering because of their conditions of learning, being sent home, staff absence and vaccine coercion.
Where is the attempt to balance the miniscule risk to young people from covid against the widespread potential for harm?
Hugh Mccarthy MSc BSc (Hons) BA