Jim Bratten
Recently, the Journal of the American Medical Association Pediatrics published a review of evidence from 36 studies conducted in eleven different countries that evaluated school closure directives during the onset of the Wuhan virus (Covid-19) in 2020. These studies examined mental health and other various health behaviors, as well as the well-being of young children and adolescents from zero to 19 years of age during the early months of the initial lockdowns.
In their review, researchers found that “69% of the studies concerned mental health and identified emotional, behavioral, and restlessness/inattention problems,” and “18% to 60% of children and adolescents scored above risk thresholds for distress, particularly anxiety and depressive symptoms.” Studies also found “higher screen time usage, greater social media use, and lower physical activity.” School closures, as part of a social lockdown regimen, contributed to “adverse mental health symptoms and health behaviors among children and adolescents.”
Compounding the negative impacts of the closures and lockdowns on children’s mental health and social development are face masks.
More doctors are objecting to the “medical tyranny” and are speaking up, refusing to participate in the face mask “science” ruse.
One of these physicians is Dr. Mark McDonald, a psychiatrist and an original member of America’s Front-Line Doctors (AFLDS), physicians who stood on the steps of the Supreme Court in July 2020 to expose public health technocrats’ lies that there were no “treatments” for the Covid-19 virus.
As reported by Dr. Simone Gold of AFLDS, Dr. McDonald has had enough and is speaking out. “Physicians are mandated reporters. When we witness or suspect child abuse, we are obligated both ethically and legally to report it to social services or the police. If a child shows up for therapy or medication treatment covered with cigarette burns, a doctor cannot ignore it.
“Masks are no different…. they do cause significant and possibly permanent damage to a child’s brain, retarding speech and language development, crippling social skills, and inciting a vicious cycle of emotional dysregulation leading to major depression, self-harm, and substance abuse. We would never allow someone to do this to our children directly, so why do we condone it through the vehicle of a face mask?”
Dr. McDonald declared, “Nearly two years later, I am done. I will no longer accept your ill-informed, foolish, immature rationalizations for the ongoing abuse of your children. If you want me to treat your child, take the mask off his face… You, the parent, are not the victim. Your child is.” He issued this email notice to his patients, laying out a few facts, and advice:
“Effective immediately, all forms of child abuse will no longer be tolerated in my office. This includes masking children.
“Just as I would never tolerate a parent beating their child or burning him with a cigarette lighter in my presence, I will not condone or allow minors to enter my office with their faces covered. My first ethical responsibility as a physician is to do no harm to my patients and allowing children to mask their faces has caused and continues to cause tremendous harm to them physically, emotionally, psychologically, and developmentally. Any argument to the contrary is naïve and irrational.
“Over the past year, referrals to speech and language therapists have increased by between 25 and 300%, depending on locale. Younger children have suffered a 24% cognitive decline, along with a 22 IQ-point loss among infants, due to a combination of prolonged isolation, anti-social distancing, and universal masking of faces. This catastrophe is man-made and due entirely to the failings of adults.
“Unfortunately, in my adult patient population, many have developed a fear addiction. I STRONGLY encourage them to remove facemasks whenever possible, including when visiting my office, as a necessary first step in overcoming this fear addiction. I am available and happy to support any patient ready to move forward toward health and freedom from fear.
“Let’s agree to make 2022 the year for an individual and national recovery.”
Mark McDonald, MD is a courageous physician and has done an important service for his patients in sending this notice. Laying out facts, by the science, should not be this hard. But fighting a vast bureaucracy with an agenda that has instilled fear in a vast portion of a population certainly is difficult to overcome. Ignorance and fear together can create abuse.
Dr. McDonald says, “I have taken a stand. I invite you, too, as well. If we all do, this ends today.”
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