In this 5th article from his ‘Lest We Forget’ series, Hugh McCarthy has teamed up with Professor Diane Rasmussen of UK Column. They looks at the toll of lockdowns on university students. Including interviews with university staff and also linking to testimony from the UK C-19 Inquiry Module 8 (Children & Young People).
Lockdowns
The great disruption
Six years on from the first lockdown, this article looks at excess deaths from just one condition, gall stones, and considers the likelihood of a much larger and still unacknowledged catastrophe of indirect harm.
Lest We Forget Part 4 – A Voice to the Silenced
‘Lest We Forget’ is a five part series written by headmaster Hugh McCarthy and published in UKColumn, in which he pulls apart the disaster of lockdowns and school closures for children. In part 4, he looks at the experiences of teachers and carers.
Through the eyes of Children and their Parents
Hugh McCarthy, headteacher, wrote the article below. His subheading “I can never forgive it, and I can never forget it” says it all.
Nocebo effects during the covid event:
What was the major cause of the harms reported during the covid event? Disparity of opinion persists about the relative contributions of various factors to the documented morbidity for the period 2020 to 2022. Proponents of the official government narrative continue to assert that a novel virus was predominantly responsible. Meanwhile, many critics of the ‘pandemic’ story highlight the pervasive consequences of the covid restrictions and responses (such as lockdowns, masks, vaccines, and business closures). Other commentators offer evidence of data manipulation and fabrication.
Yet there is another potential contender for chief culprit that is rarely considered: the nocebo effect…..
C-19 Inquiry Module 8 – Children and Young People
‘‘It was recognised that government policies and measures were KNOWINGLY causing HUGE HARM to children and young people and that they were paying a HUGE price to protect the rest of society.’’ “There has been no proper explanation for such an EGREGIOUS FAILING…to have recognised that you are INTENTIONALLY doing something that is likely to cause harm…recognise that is IT IS causing harm and yet not having done the work to put in to mitigation or a reduction in those harms is simply inexplicable and has not been explained.’’ This from the KC to the NI Children’s Commissioner.
School Closures/Lockdowns:
Guest author Hugh McCarthy, retired headteacher who also served on two of Northern Ireland’s Education Councils, writes in detail about the harms of lockdowns on children. The politicians knew but carried on regardless…
Pick of the Week: 31st August
Two reports from Hedley Rees on the successes and failures of the FDA, another harrowing series of clips in ‘Care Home Killing Fields’ and more from Maryanne Demasi on the intransigence of the CDC
Revisiting my August 2021 letter to Government about the “Handling of The Covid Pandemic”
Dr Jonathan Engler revisits an open letter he wrote in 2021 to the leaders of the four nations. Looking back from 4 years later, there is much to add. But though many of the orignial signatories will share his increasing scepticism, the recipients of all our letters are still as entrenched as ever!
Our grave concerns about the handling of the COVID pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK, 21-08-2021
An open letter from 140 health professionals to the leaders of the 4 nations, regarding the catastrophic management of the covid pandemic.
Killing not Care
Module 6 of the UK C-19 Inquiry has just completed taking evidence, and much of it has been very harrowing. The overwhelming impression is of numerous unnecessary deaths, not from covid-19 but from loneliness, neglect, dehydration, denial of access to basic medical care, and most seriously the blanket application of DNAR notices across care homes for the elderly and even for young adult with disabilities, often without the patient’s consent or the family’s knowledge. Read this and tell me that the Terminally Ill (End of Life) Bill will be remotely equipped to prevent abuse and coercion.
Let’s not forget the mass casualties of the covid RESPONSE – Part 1
The ‘Covid day of reflection’ took place on the 9th of March 2025 to commemorate the victims of the ‘pandemic’. This article focuses here will be on a much larger, and often forgotten, group of victims of this era: those who were harmed or killed by the range of unprecedented and non-evidenced responses to a presumed novel virus.
The ghost of Covid Christmas past, present and future
Christmas time seems to have resulted in peak craziness during the covid era. If we want to save Christmas future we need to look at Christmas past.
Pick of the week
Following on from last week’s round up, here is another small selection of the numerous excellent articles out there.
What were you doing on 23rd March 2020?
It is hard to believe it is really three whole years since many of us were listening to the Prime Minister, adopting his most Churchillian tones, and telling the entire nation that we must stay in our homes, for all but food shopping, one item of exercise and essential travel to work: the announcement made only four days after SARS-CoV-2 had been downgraded as a High Consequence Infectious Disease.
Why are so many people dying?
The disappointment from Covidean doom-mongers about the recent – and entirely expected – downtick in cases of respiratory disease has been palpable, presumably because this has happened without recourse to ‘clever’ public health interventions.
Lockdowns: the evidence revisited
In March 2021, we wrote two sections in ‘Covid-19 the evidence’, namely ‘Economic impacts – the true cost of lockdown’ and ‘Lockdowns – do they work?’. Over a year later, we have revisited not only the financial costs of lockdowns but also the societal costs, the impact on healthcare and the lack of evidence for overall benefit.
To B or Not To B
Was ‘Plan B’ always in fact, ‘Plan A’?
