Posted on 01/26/2021 3:39:34 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Keeping schools closed is having a "calamitous" impact on children, some of the UK's top paediatricians have warned as they called for teachers to be prioritised for a vaccine.
The group said they were witnessing an "acute and rapid increase in mental health and safeguarding cases", with parents suffering breakdowns and other psychological stress due to home-schooling.
Vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi insisted it was the government's "absolute priority" to re-open schools.
But Labour said people "need certainty" about how low coronavirus rates need to sink for all children to be sent back to the classroom.
Over the weekend, Health Secretary Matt Hancock could not guarantee whether schools will be fully open again by Easter.
With no end in sight to school closures, 10 of the country's top child health experts wrote in a letter to The Times on Tuesday that the government seemed "intent on prolonging school closures" despite "growing evidence" it was having a "calamitous impact" on young people.
"As paediatricians we rely on schools as our eyes and ears, and are witnessing first-hand the damage that the lockdown is inflicting on the mental health of our nation's children," they wrote.
"As in the first lockdown, we are witnessing an acute and rapid increase in mental health and safeguarding cases affecting children and parents alike.
"Anxiety, depression and self-harm are all at frightening levels.
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It will be used now to punish certain areas of society, certain people of non color and political enclaves
But if it saves one teacher (so they can sit on the beach in Mexico during the school year), it was all worth it!
What do they know? Only God King Emperor Expert of Experts Fauci can be trusted in all things.
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