I know that this is just stating the obvious, but here it is anyway:
Babies born during the COVID-19 pandemic are ‘falling behind’ on key milestones including talking and crawling because of a lack of social interaction, early learning staff and scientists have warned.
Studies have also revealed children born after March 2020 are less likely to be able to vocalize than their peers were at this age, and are yet to develop social skills such as sharing and waiting their turn — leading to more fights.
Scientists suggest a lack of social contact with family and relatives due to restrictions is behind the shift.
The long-term impact of the pandemic on children is not yet clear, but experts have warned keeping children away from their peers for so long with lockdowns is bound to have harmed their development.
Look, I’m not remotely an expert on this stuff, but it’s a well-known fact that childhood learning (particularly during the early years) requires continuous stimulation — and by “continuous” I mean uninterrupted.
While it is generally acknowledged that children’s brains are absolute sponges when it comes to learning, it is also true (to continue the metaphor) that letting the sponge dry out during the process, even for short periods of time, can affect its absorption capacity. And once that is lost, there is no recovery of the ability.
So for the (dubious) purpose of saving a few lives, an entire group of children has been irremediably harmed.
A paper published in JAMA in January this year that looked at 225 children born in 2020 revealed babies were less likely to be crawling and smiling at themselves in a mirror within six months. It also showed they had reduced social and problem solving skills.
And a UK-based survey of teachers released last month found those teaching children in the early grades were now seeing more biting and hitting in the classroom than previously. [New Wife reports the same from her preschool, incidentally]
British-based charity Ofsted has also suggested in a report that after reviewing more than 280 educational settings, children are struggling with basic skills such as writing and speaking in the wake of the pandemic.
They said some teachers even said they had seen youngsters lack confidence in group activities, and struggle to share and take turns.
Similarly, Brown University scientists, who assessed 1,000 children, found there was a 23 percent dive in ‘pandemic’ babies scores in three cognitive tests.
Any time in the future that the Panic Purveyor Set (e.g. Fauci) suggests that we isolate ourselves in the Covid-19 manner, we should set about them with baseball / cricket bats (apply according to national preference).
For the children.
i know you’re quoting the Maily Dail (who I’d like to think would know better), but Ofsted is not a charity. It’s a government body – and an acronym standing Office for Standards in Education.
They rank every school, childminder, nursery, etc.
Yeah I know. Trust the DM to screw up so simple a statement with sloppy writing.
They were probably thinking of Oxfam. Both words begin with an O, right?
“ Any time in the future that the Panic Purveyor Set (e.g. Fauci) suggests that we isolate ourselves in the Covid-19 manner, we should set about them with baseball / cricket bats (apply according to national preference).”
No matter who peddles fear and then uses the fear in order to exercise control should be treated no differently than people who commit treason.
I don’t give a shit if it’s police giving tickets or arresting people for refusing to wear a ritualistic shame muzzle (the mask), educators forcing the vaccine on children and school employees, governments trying to shut down and destroy small business, anyone engaged in violation of rights cuz omg germs needs to be tarred and feathered.
Sadly, too many in society obey.
If a large portion of people, say half or more of the population told the govt and the weenies who bend the knee to govt to fuck right off then the bullshit would end. There isn’t enough jail cells to put all the normal people in in that case.
Also, I must have missed the part of the constitution that said none of this matters if people get sick.
Fuck tyrants
Ever since wives and mothers were coerced to get out of the home and into the job parenting and child rearing has suffered. covid was just one more opportunity for certain parents to ignore their kids even more.
I’m in my 40’s. I’ve only known the whole 2 people in a household have to work to be able to make the bills.
Reading history, women in the workplace – It is and was a scam to some extent
Now the woman who want to work. Fine. No issues.
But the powers that be were not about empowering women.
Today in 2026 and for the last few decades most people, not all but most working regular jobs need 2 incomes to make a mortgage, vehicle, and other bills.
Before I was born – reading history – 1 income could work. It was hard then too I’m sure, but it was more doable.
Today, one income can work but it is a lot harder and more rare unless one is extremely frugal.
And don’t even get me started on the other issue of omg look we hired the first vagina to ever do this role.
What did we learn in many cases, not all of course as there are some capable women however in many cases we learned that women could fuck shit up as bad or worse than men cuz hey we gotta hire a vagina for the job.
Modern examples?
Hilary Clinton
Abigail Spanberger
Maura Healey
Kamala Harris
But hey. Just work extra hard and pay those taxes. The democrats and RINO’s want to buy votes with your stolen tax money in the form of free shit, all while they violate your rights and icing on the cake – many people are too busy with both household members working to do much of anything about it.
Stupidity and hubris at its finest.
I’m 60 and I’m one of the few of my age that did the single income thing. My wife stayed home, took care of the kids and the house, and then later did volunteer work for the church. It was tight, many years of paycheck to paycheck, but we made it. A lot of our peers did the dual income route, but there are others who scraped by like us.
My oldest is 35 and he and his wife are also at the single income stage. She worked for a few years after giving birth but then decided that raising the kids right was more important. He flunked college and then went to trade school as a welder. Continued to educate himself and now is a multi-certified inspector in the chemicals industry. They bought a house a few years back in an incredibly tight market and still made it work.
What I’m saying is that it can be done. It just ain’t easy. Wasn’t easy for us, isn’t easy for my kid.
There is a character in the silly post apocalyptic television show “The Walking Dead” named Nagen who uses a baseball bat with the end wrapped in barbed wire that he calls Lucille. Lucille is a tool that sadly is not used enough in society. It would work great when applied to pedos and such. Fauci and other totalitarians could use a massage by Lucille.
Agreed. We need a few Negans to knock some heads around.
A good start would be oath violators and tyrants. Fucking scum of the earth.
That baseball bat, Lucille, was named after Negans dead wife.
The Eighth Amendment won’t let us flog Fauci, but retroactively forfeiting his pension would be a good start, until he’s tried and imprisoned for fraud, perjury, consorting with the enemy or whatever other laws and ethics that POS violated.
Interesting how fauci and many many many other members of the govt along with the gestapo (police) violated the citizens constitutional rights during the CONvid SCAMdemic but yet we the people can’t violate the oath breakers rights in return
One day the govt will overstep at the wrong time and the people will put the tyrants in their place. Hopefully. Who knows those. Many people love the govt cheese free shit programs. Maybe us working folks who want our rights respected are outnumbered sadly.