Shutting schools during coronavirus pandemic a mistake says Scottish Prof Leitch
 

Lockdown is an old-fashioned approach to managing a disease that is going
around the world in an aeroplane.’

(yes its a Chinese Communists way of dealing with it that we stupidly copied :facepalm:)

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Professor Jason Leitch has admitted it might have been a mistake to close
schools during the Covid pandemic.

Scotland’s national clinical director said different decisions might have been
made if the full impact of lockdown had been known.

Professor Leitch, who fronted the Covid campaign, added that he was drafted
in for Scottish Government TV briefings [B]over fears that only half the nation
liked First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

His comments appear to undermine the hardline tactics adopted by the
Scottish and UK governments, which caused huge disruption to education,
the NHS, businesses and society for two years.



Covid lockdowns have caused a 'global mental health crisis' in children due to
'deep impact of school closures', WHO admits

A spokesman for children’s rights group UFTScotland said: ‘Now we are
seeing an acknowledgement that home schooling was a terrible political
decision that impacted a generation.

‘We knew from the data at the time that Covid was affecting older people and
was not an issue for younger people and the harm of closing schools was
never considered. Everyone lost their mind and children were thrown under a
bus. Now Professor Leitch is admitting children were not being educated.’

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Top Comment:

Shutting everything during lock down was a mistake as many people said at
the time. You don't have to be a genius to work out that people who are kept
away from other people, schools, doctors, dentists and hospitals will suffer,
and still are. There was also no point in wearing masks as several studies
have shown.

Yes Worldwide all are saying the same
on Covid-19

School errors

I agree on the NHS shutdown - it was a disaster, service should never have been closed or restricted. It's proving impossible to catch up.

Schools ... ? :shrug: There's VERY LITTLE evidence of poorer education outcomes for kids who were out of school for lockdown tbh. Bigger effect on kids in exam years, but I don't think there's any real evidence of the education of primary school-aged kids being particularly "damaged" at all. Academically minded kids caught up quicker, less academically minded kids were never going to be achieving high grades anyway and - in fact - many discovered other areas of interest/talents during that time because they weren't being shoehorned into activities that aren't right for them.

There is evidence many kids suffered from mental health isdues and there have been suicides, school isn’t all about education, kids missed out on socialising and pre schoolers missed more opportunities than most

Depression and anxiety in all age groups rose by more than a quarter in 2020

Covid lockdowns have created a 'global crisis for mental health', the World Health
Organization has admitted.

An international report by the UN agency found two years of restrictions have led to
'significant mental health consequences', especially for young people.



The WHO now estimates more than a billion people around the world are living with a
mental health disorder as a result, a quarter more than pre-Covid.

It said there had been an even bigger rise among children, 'potentially reflecting the
deep impact of school closures'.


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When are China gonna be brought to justice for Covid ?


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at least half the country wanted to be locked down. It was parents that were shouting loudly to close schools, or is that being conveniently forgotten

really where do you get that idea?

Sadly never.

Their Government have gotten away with treating everybody like ****, again.

Captain Hindsight is alive and well.

SIR – I read with horror that the Covid inquiry has already cost £114 million
(report, March 18), with 150 lawyers involved, and could take up to seven
years to complete.

None of this will bring back my husband or the many others who died. The
inquiry is at risk of being a huge waste of time and money – from which
nothing is learned.

Ruth Bragman
Kingston Hill, Surrey

The Lancet estimated that the bill for closing British schools for 12 weeks was
one per cent of GDP because so many parents would need to stay home. But
that wasn’t the true bill, not even close. Among the hidden costs were nearly
100,000 “ghost” children who never returned to the classroom and more than a
million youngsters now on waiting lists for mental health services.


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-never-agenda/

I mean the stats there are a little misleading. Yes there are issues of kids falling through the cracks post-Covid, you can't really deny that, but also there are people and families who simply discovered that home-schooling works better for them and always would have, they just had never tried it. There are also multiple reasons for decline in mental health across all age groups including children, no real evidence that most of those wouldn't have the same issues if schools had stayed open.

There are definitely kids who thrive in school but it's not all.