On the eve of a much-needed revolution in the provision of healthcare in the United States, we continue to learn of novel ways that the brutal COVID regime over the last four years permanently marred public health — particularly among America’s children.
Let’s take a look at a pair of the latest studies on the effects of lockdowns on kids, with the latter revealing perhaps surprising and unexpected repercussions.
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Via Medical Xpress (emphasis added):
A new study reveals a 37% increase in deliberate self-poisonings among female children and adolescents over the last four years. The increase is strongly correlated with COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
Published in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, the study found rates of deliberate self-poisoning were 84% higher among those aged 5–14 years, and 36% higher among those aged 15–19 years between March 2020 and December 2023 compared to 2018–19. There were only minor changes among males and older Australians.
Within the 5- to 14-year-old cohort, self-poisonings rose particularly among adolescent females aged 11 to 14. The researchers say the rise in self-poisoning by adolescent females appeared to be driven by lockdowns rather than COVID-19 infections*.
*What a stupid and unnecessary caveat. Of course it was the lockdowns — and the forced masking, and the nonstop terror porn in corporate state media — and not COVID-19 infections that drove children deprived of socialization to suicidality.
The suicide-lockdown correlation/causation is to be expected, particularly because other research duplicates and confirms these findings.
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What might not have been expected, or as expected, certainly not on my part, is the enormous spike — a more than doubling — in childhood myopia, commonly known as nearsightedness, per a recent study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
Via Children's Health Defense (emphasis added):
The rate of myopia progression among Chicago-area kids more than doubled during the COVID-19 lockdowns when compared to the same kids during the year before the lockdowns, according to a new peer-reviewed study.
Myopia, or nearsightedness, is growing more common among children, according to the American Academy of Ophthalmology. Though estimates vary, nearly half of the world’s population is expected to have myopia by 2050.
The study authors — who published their findings on Nov. 18 in the British Journal of Ophthalmology — looked at eye exam results of 2,064 Chicago-area kids ages 2-17 from January 2019 through March 2021.
They compared the differences in exam results from 2019 to 2020 — before the COVID-19 lockdowns — with the differences in exam results from 2020 to 2021 when COVID-19 lockdowns were in effect.
Through statistical analyses, they found “a substantial worsening” of myopia progression “during the period of home confinement and online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
Specifically, the change in myopia progression rates from 2020 to 2021 was more than double (2.2 times greater) the change from 2019 to 2020.
Assuming that this data set is accurate — and I see no reason to doubt it is, given that it’s not favorable to the official narrative that the lockdowns were safe and effective, as it were — there is no way to explain away a 2.2 fold increase in nearsightedness in children in a single year without factoring in locking children inside to stare at phones and tablets all day, in some blue districts with the harshest policies not even allowed to venture outside.
