All posts tagged: lockdowns hurting children

Study: Tens of thousands of children clinically depressed due to lockdowns

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According to a recent study out of the United Kingdom, the lockdowns associated with the COVID pandemic has resulted in tens of thousands of children becoming clinically depressed. The study also noted that girls were particularly affected by the lockdowns. Breitbart reports: According to the paper published in the Royal Society Open Science journal, children attending secondary schools in the United Kingdom found themselves suffering more from clinical depression as a result of COVID clampdowns. Researchers found that 27.1 per cent prevalence of depression among their thousands-strong sample, which they say represents a notable increase from where they would have expected the percentage to be had the pandemic never occurred. Overall, The Telegraph reports that this increased percentage means that 60,000 more youngsters were driven into clinical depression by the lockdown. READ: Lockdowns Drove Tens of Thousands of Kids into ‘Clinical Depression’ – Study Of course, this is not the first time we have heard this. READ: Depression Among Children Has Increased ‘Substantially’ Under Lockdown: Study READ: More youth are dying of suicide, overdose than COVID-19 during pandemic: …

CDC poll: 44% of students sad and hopeless due to lockdowns, 20% contemplated suicide

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The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) just released the results of a survey of students from grades nine through 12, that revealed a significant percentage experienced serious mental health struggles due to the lockdowns.

The second pandemic? Mental health issues

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Health officials in Britain are warning of an emerging second pandemic, and it has nothing to do with COVID, but rather the lockdowns and COVID mandates.

Oxford epidemiologist says the threat of Omicron is overblown

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Oxford epidemiologist, Professor Sunetra Gupta, has opposed the lockdowns since day one, arguing that they do more harm than good. If lockdowns actually worked, the COVID pandemic would have been over last spring. All lockdowns do is extend the pandemic. Gupta argues that lockdowns also do incredible harm to children. She adds that the healthy have to stop being afraid of infection because disease is a reality of life. Dr. Gupta argues that the medical establishment should have instead focussed on protecting the people who were actually vulnerable to the virus, the elderly, and those with underlying health conditions. It didn’t and in Canada, as an example, 69% of the COVID deaths lived in long-term care homes. READ: The Great Barrington Declaration RELATED: Vaccine inventor: Omicron could be ‘a Christmas present’ RELATED: Covid accounted for just one in 16 deaths in England and Wales in first full week of Omicron as virus fatalities fell to a two-month low, official data shows

Poll: Regular churchgoers have the best mental health in America

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A mental-health poll, conducted annually by Gallup, revealed that Americans who regularly attend church had the best mental health this year.

Suicide attempts among teen girls up 51% due to lockdowns?

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According to a recent report by America’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC), there has been a dramatic increase in the number of girls between the ages of 12 and 17 coming in to hospital

Study: Impact of facemasks on children

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According to a German study of nearly 26,000 school-aged children, masks are causing children to breathe in air with nearly 14,000 ppm of CO2 (13,120 ppm to 13,910 ppm). According to the report, this is six times higher than the recommended safe levels. One seven-year-old student actually recorded 25,000 ppm of CO2.

COVID & kids: The real facts

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While politicians, health officials and many in the main stream media tried to terrify parents about the dangers of COVID for children, and use it to justify the closure of schools, the facts tell a slightly different tale.

Teachers provide in-person classes for migrant kids, but …

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While many teachers refuse to return to in-person classes in San Diego public schools because of concerns over COVID, San Diego teachers are fine with offering in-person classes to recent migrant kids who have just crossed the border, even though they have much higher rates of COVID infection than American schools.

Youth paying the price for the lockdowns, suicide attempts tripled

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A disturbing report out of McMaster’s Children’s Hospital, in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada reveals the impact that COVID-1984 lockdowns are having on the mental well-being of youth, that includes a tripling of suicide attempts. It is the unseen cost of lockdowns that politicians and health officials are seemingly choosing to ignore.

Record suicides force San Francisco to sue school division

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The city of San Francisco is suing the city’s school division to force it to reopen schools. They are doing this because of a dramatic surge, 66% increase in some instances, in the number of suicidal children in the city’s emergency wards.

Surging suicides force schools to partially reopen in Nevada

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The New York Times reports that a large school district in Nevada has been forced to partially reopen to in-person schooling after a surge of suicides among students.

It’s only a game?

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As governments lock down whole countries banning kids from even playing with their friends or ice skating, what are kids to do? Play video games of course and watch cartoons on TV. A mother in England tells of her experience with one of the more popular kid’s game platforms, Roblox.

Children suicides & self-harm skyrocket during lockdown, Italy

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A report out of Italy reveals that there has been an alarming spike in suicide attempts not only among teens, but children as well, because of the lockdowns. Along with this, hospitals are also reporting a dramatic increase in incidents of self-harm, where children are purposefully cutting and burning themselves. Doctors are also reporting an alarming increase in mental health disorders and are laying the blame for these increases squarely on the lockdowns.

Canada lockdown: Salting outdoor ice rinks

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People in the city of Vaughan located in the Canadian Province of Ontario were outraged when a video was posted online of a city worker salting the ice on an outdoor rink.

Depression skyrocketing in children due to lockdowns, study

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A study conducted by researchers at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit located at the University of Cambridge in Britain revealed that the lockdowns have caused depression rates to skyrocket among children in Britain. No one knows if this will have long-term consequences.

Britain: The devastating medical impact of lockdowns

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More news on the negative fallout from the COVID lockdowns as they dramatically impacted the delivery of health care services in Britain. It is being reported that the number of people in Britain who died at home during the COVID lockdown is up 25,000 over last year with only a couple thousand attributed to the virus. It has left many wondering again if the lockdown cure is worse than the disease it’s supposed to be fighting. The report reveals the medical devastation attributed to the lockdowns. Breitbart explains: But it was the audit of several dozens of reports by health professionals, charities, and medical journals by the Daily Mail that revealed in full the staggering effect that the lockdown has had on non-COVID-19 patients. The report noted a Lancet paper stating that during the three months of lockdown, organ transplants fell by two-thirds, resulting in the numbers of people dying on transplant waiting lists to nearly double. Hospital chemotherapy attendance fell by 66 per cent in April, per a University College London study for the British Medical Journal …

Lockdowns causing long-term damage to children?

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A study by psychologists from the University of Bath in England are warning that the lockdowns are causing long-term damage to children because they are not able to associate with their friends because of school closures and stay-at-home orders preventing socializing.