Pernicious Pandemic Policies - Impact on Children

We spend a good deal of time on this Substack articulating the vast array of negative consequences of lockdowns on society. As I note in my upcoming book:

Many of those who joined Rational Ground and what we came to call Team Reality had similar experiences. Life isn’t always fair, and we adults are willing to bear with the challenges foisted on us, but when the government’s insane rules harm our children, watch out.

Below are links to some of the more prominent impacts we’ve catalogued against children from the egregious policies foisted on families during the pandemic. We’ll be discussing these and other items today at noon on our Rational Ground podcast.

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Stringency Measures and their Impact on Children

This week a new study scanned the literature to determine what countries across the world are experiencing because of the pandemic and stringency measures. Here’s a thread on that:

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Meta-study: "... anxiety, depression, [PTSD], and sleep disorders." "... measures such as quarantine and isolation for infection prevention may have immediate and prolonged mental health impacts." The kids are not all right medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 1/

medrxiv.orgGlobal burden of mental health problems among children and adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic umbrella reviewMental health problems among children and adolescents are increasingly reported amidst the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. In this umbrella review, we aimed to synthesize global evidence on the epidemiologic burden and correlates of child and adolescent mental health (CAMH) problems during…

From RationalGround.com

• Our 4-part series by Emily Burns published last year is a tremendous overview about masking kids.

• Screamed for Mom to “Make it Stop”

• Ridiculous mandates, over-testing, unreasonable quarantines, illogical masking policies… the list goes on. This next generation is going to have a tough time grappling with concepts like “reason” and “logic.” One mom emailed us her letter to the school board. See below… feel free to re-use it.

• Our illustrious overlords of health determined it was better for kids that they be banished from school and locked indoors eating takeout. The result? BMI rate of change for 2 to 19 year olds DOUBLED! COVID didn’t do this. OUR POLICIES DID.

• A group of parents in Gainesville, FL, sent 6 face masks to a lab at the University of Florida, requesting an analysis of contaminants found on the masks after they had been worn. The resulting report found that five masks were contaminated with bacteria, parasites, and fungi, including three with dangerous pathogenic and pneumonia-causing bacteria.

Our friends at the Brownstone Institute have compiled a tremendous list of resources, analysis and commentary on this subject:

• What Covid Containment Has Done to Our Children

• A Partial List of the Myriad Abuses That Facemasks Inflict on Our Children

• More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures)

• 75 Studies and Articles Against COVID-19 School Closures

• Hurting Children to Protect Them

• Human Shields: The Public-Health War on Children

• What Will We Tell Our Children?

• Why Have They Done This to the Children?

• Lockdowns Might Have Contributed to Myopia In Children

• More than 150 Comparative Studies and Articles on Mask Ineffectiveness and Harms

Articles from our Substack:

Masking Children is an Ineffective Policy and Not Supported by Research or Data

Saving Children and Mental Health

Low, Low, Low

16 States Where Kids Breathe Freely!

Kids and Masks: A Review of the Insanity

The List: Lockdown Impact