What are we doing to our children?

Part 2: Were the Covid policies fit for purpose or necessary? by Hugh McCarthy Tuesday, 31st January 2023, UKColumn

Foreword

Many times I’ve concluded a COVID debate with the self-evident assertion that the burden of proof is on those who interfere with our lives.

The fact that we can so easily establish a reasonable level of confidence that those interventions were harmful only shows what an impossible task they have.

This probably explains why they have never bothered. Unfortunately for them, there are simply too many good people in the world who will not let this go, no matter how apathetic the rest of society might be.

One of these good people is undoubtedly, Hugh McCarthy¹, representing the education sector and abiding by his unspoken oath to do the best for children when he entered this profession.

We need more educators to support Hugh, for our children’s sake. Please share this with your children’s teachers and ask them why they didn’t do the best for them when it mattered.

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Follow the science?

In the light of the known harms to children, as identified in Part 1, it was surely incumbent upon the Government to demonstrate that the restrictions were necessary; that is, that the threat was deadly to those on whom it was placing the restrictions and that its policy strategies unequivocally worked.

Testing, lockdowns, masks, vaccines “were wholly unnecessary, did not work, were based on a failure to follow the science, and caused immense multifaceted harms.”

A generation is going to ask why their lives were damaged by policies designed to combat a virus when all the scientific evidence shows that the virus does not affect them and the measures introduced restricting children clearly did not work. Surely someone is responsible, otherwise how does accountable democracy work?

Hugh McCarthy

1. Hugh McCarthy recently retired as a head teacher after 23 years service in that role. He also lectured in a postgraduate leadership course at the University of Ulster. Hugh has served as a director on two of Northern Ireland’s major education councils and currently serves as a ministerial appointee on one. He is a member of PanData and Collateral Global. He has almost 50 years' experience in education. He writes: