Because children and young people matter #UsforThem Never close schools again
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UsforThemIreland retweeted
Massive question here about the role played by increased screen time during the pandemic in driving up rates of ADHD.
🚨Lockdown harms to children continue
'One in nine children now has a disability after post-pandemic surge'
@TheIFS suggests that '…measures such as lockdown had intensified the previous tend of deteriorating youth mental health'
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UsforThemIreland retweeted
Are we finally hearing some sense at the COVID inquiry?
Lockdowns deemed to be a failure? Disproportionate? Unsustainable? Not as effective as claimed?
I agree with all that...
The biggest policy mistake in my lifetime.
UsforThemIreland retweeted
"But most of all, my message will be a simple and clear one: this must never happen again."
@annelongfield, Children's Commissioner during the pandemic, writing in @Telegraph
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A generation betrayed - and needing support urgently.
'Antidepressant prescriptions for teens hit 1m a year for first time'
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Sorry, PM, lockdown was a historic mistake racking up a £400 billion debt which our children’s children will still be paying off.
Our cities are hollowed out, millions lost the habit of working and a staggering 5.4million of working age are on benefits. There is a hospital waiting list of 7.4million people, thousands on that list are dying before they can be seen, and 1 million children and young people are waiting for mental health services.
The country is massively poorer and more neurotic.
There really is nothing to be proud of.
UsforThemIreland retweeted
During the pandemic, the State imposed a very large burden on our children and now they are paying the price educationally and emotionally. The government and the main opposition parties bear a heavy responsibility for this. @TheSundayIndo independent.ie/opinion/comme…
UsforThemIreland retweeted
Images of children's playgrounds closed off for their 'health' during lockdown leave a particularly sour taste in the mouth.
Many sensible people supported this madness.
And it was exactly that - indefensible madness.
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What a horrid picture on my article, but important to remember.
When children were finally allowed to return to the classroom, they were forced to wear uncomfortable and disruptive masks for hours on end.
Did the politicians do the same? Of course not.
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UsforThemIreland retweeted
We sacrificed the wellbeing of our children. For what ?
Irrational fear !
Fear induced by extreme zerocovid ‘scientists’ and public health officials (who have since disappeared from public life) and perpetuated by corrupt politicians and media.
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🚨 Excess non-covid deaths almost at pandemic 2020 levels
Why is there radio silence from government?
@DrCharlesL
@carlheneghan
UsforThemIreland retweeted
Even though we knew it would happen this way, it’s quite devastating to watch the first days of the #CovidInquiry play out.
A deplorable fear-fuelled propaganda campaign that screwed over a generation and lacked any plausible exit mechanism has set up a doom-loop of cognitive dissonance: that lockdown and school closures, devastating though they were, were a respectable and necessary public health response to perceived emergency; that it would be acceptable to deploy such tools again; that common sense, personal responsibility for fitness and health couldn’t be the answer.
This is how a society implodes.
Ministers’ had ‘chilling’ secret unit to curb lockdown dissent telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06…
UsforThemIreland retweeted
The @guardian wakes up to the damage of covid restrictions on children and young people which they cheered on loudly.
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"Schools in England have seen an increase in absences on Fridays since the pandemic, with lockdowns appearing to have changed attitudes towards attendance. There are fears that these strikes...are reinforcing signals that school is optional."
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UsforThemIreland retweeted
Prolonged school closures for #COVID19 have been catastrophic for child health
They have deepened inequalities, possibly for generations
“In-person schooling is essential even during periods of high transmission of COVID-19”
Our latest in @BMJ_EBM
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UsforThemIreland retweeted
“We didn’t understand that it’s a fairly low fatality rate and that it’s a disease mainly in the elderly, kind of like flu is, although a bit different than that.”
~ Bill Gates
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🚨Lockdown harms to kids
More than 12,000 children are enduring “dangerous” waits of more than a year for NHS help due to covid backlogs.
@RCPCHPresident: too often this means children are missing the window for treatment, with lifelong consequences.
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