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).
Tag: 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.
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…..
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…
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!
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.
