J.P. Morgan research has already shown that coronavirus infections decreased after lifting the lockdown in most places, and concluded that the whole “only leave your home to go to the supermarket” strategy wasn’t able to keep anybody healthy despite destroying the economy and people’s minds.

Now, the results of a new survey suggest that the lockdown is also damaging babies’ mental health and impacting their development.

Daily Mail:

Lockdown has affected the development and behaviour of babies across the UK, a study suggests.

The Babies In Lockdown report, commissioned by three leading UK children and parents advocacy groups, found some new parents felt ‘abandoned’ by the lack of care available during lockdown.

Others said their baby had become more clingy or was crying more than usual.

More than 200,000 babies are believed to have been born when lockdown was at its most restrictive, between 23 March and 4 July, according to the research.

The survey suggests the impact of Covid-19 on these babies could be ‘severe’ and may be ‘long-lasting’ as both caregivers and the children themselves are impacted by the pandemic.

It’s not the impact of Covid-19, it’s the impact of the insane response to it.

A third (34 per cent) of respondents believed that their baby’s interaction with them had changed during the lockdown period. Almost half (47 per cent) of parents reported that their baby had become more clingy. One quarter (26 per cent) reported their baby crying more than usual.

One 38-year-old mother, from Scotland, said: ‘I have been crying for hours on end, having anxiety and panic attacks which are all out of the ordinary for me. This has affected my nine month old son who has seen me experience this and has been more tearful and clingy with me…

‘My son is hating me working from home because he doesn’t understand why mama is ignoring him when he can hear me and is now super clingy with me. He had never had screen time or seen me use a mobile before this. Now most of his social interactions are online and he doesn’t understand why I am locked away 35 hours a week in the bedroom.’

Another Scottish mother, 24, who has a two-year-old and is five months pregnant, added: ‘My two-year-old has become violent and upset quite a lot of the time due to this. He’s finding it hard just seeing and being in contact with two people. I

‘I fear for the effects this lockdown will have on him later in life.’

A third mother, aged 37, from Greater London, said: ‘I planned to enrol my 15-months-old (in March) to a nursery to help him with his social skills – he does not say words and is not responding to his name which worries me.

‘Not this is not possible [sic], I suspect his development is possibly behind but can do nothing about it at the moment. My 4 months old has only seen his brother, father and my face. I’m worried about his development also, I planned to take him to various classes, meet other mums with babies – this is also not possible at the moment.’

The mood of their mothers and people around them could be negatively impacting these babies, but that’s okay, because at least they won’t ever have to know what it means to have a flu.

Destroying civilization and taking people’s freedom away is a fair price to pay so that future babies can grow up in a world without coughs and sneezes.

The good eyesight of people is also a fair price to pay for that.

Daily Mail:

Coronavirus lockdowns could have damaged the eyesight of thousands of people, scientists have warned.

Another study has discovered spending hours looking at screens can lead to short-sightedness, which causes distant objects to appear blurred.

And eye specialists in Singapore, Germany and Japan, behind the research, fear the Covid-19 pandemic may cause rates of the condition to spiral.

The doctors analysed data of 120,643 children and found ‘increased digital screen time and limited outdoor activities’ were linked to causing myopia.

And they wrote both factors ‘could potentially be aggravated during and beyond the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak period’.

Countries across the world adopted strict measures to strangle the virus, including blanket lockdowns that effectively banned socialising outdoors.

Such policies have led to children taking classes online, friends talking over Zoom instead of in real-life and people binge-watching TV.

The experts said ‘behavioural changes that arise from the growing dependence on digital devices may persist even after the pandemic‘.

They wrote: ‘There is a possibility that a prolonged battle against the Covid-19 virus may lead to an increase in the incidence of myopia.’

The team warned the drastic measures may shape ‘long term behavioural changes conducive for the onset and progression of myopia’.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has already said all GP appointments should be done over by phone or video unless there ‘is a compelling clinical reason not to’.

The study’s warning — based on reviews of older studies on myopia — was published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

It’s not as bad as it sounds. If the eyesight of people worsens, then, perhaps, people will stop seeing color and start seeing PEOPLE.

This could be the end of racism.

Bad idea.

Nowadays, children are raised by tablets and venomous school teachers while their moms empower themselves clicking Excel sheets in an office and their dads contemplate suicide as they run the child support and alimony numbers in the quietness of their toilet sanctuary.

Contrary to what anyone could have predicted, that has serious adverse effects on the kids.

Daily Mail:

Children are risking short-sightedness unless they spend two hours a day outside and ditch screens and homework books, say experts.

A new epidemic of myopia in youngsters has been directly linked to the amount of time they spend doing ‘nearwork’.

Scientists have also predicted a rise in the numbers of people who will become blind in later life because people who develop short-sightedness at a young age have a higher risk of eye problems when they get older.

Some specialists believe the condition should be renamed ‘school myopia’ because the increase in diagnoses is so steep.

About 20 per cent of under-16s in the UK are short-sighted, compared with just 7.2 per cent in the 1960s.

Dr Clare Quigley, an opthalmologist at Galway University Hospital, conducted a study researching the lifestyles and health of 8,568 nine-year-olds which found a strong connection between the condition and a sedentary lifestyle.

She told the Sunday Times: ‘The factors that consistently appear most important in development of myopia are education and time spent indoors … more education is associated with greater myopia.’

Attending school damages kids’ eyesight, but at least it teaches them about The Holocaust.

Imagine all the things that kids could learn in the years they waste sitting in school listening to some viper rant about toxic masculinity if only the education system wasn’t designed to crush their souls.

Until now myopia has been seen mainly as a genetic condition but new research is now able to not only confirm, but quantify, how ‘nearwork’ can damage children’s vision.

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The condition is far more common in westernised societies when compared with those who live outdoor lifestyles.

Experts predict roughly 50 per cent of people will have myopia by 2050, an 20 per cent increase to the number who are now.

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In order to curb the increase, some people have suggested that opticians give out lifestyle prescriptions as well as medical ones by telling people to send children outside.

Medical prescriptions telling people to send their kids to play outside is a good idea, but an even better idea would be to turn two of the hours kids already spend in school into mandatory outside-play time.

It would be like a 2-hour recess where kids can socialize, play, make new friends, and do healthy kid stuff. Additionally, it would decrease the amount of time kids spend sitting in the classroom, which is a great thing, considering what we know about the sedentary lifestyle.

The Conversation:

As a society, we aren’t getting as much exercise as we should. In fact, current activity guidelines state that adults should get at least 150 minutes of moderately intense activity – or 75 minutes of vigorous activity – every week. But research has found that one in four adults aren’t active enough.

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Our research looked at what effect even short periods of physical inactivity had on our bodies. We found that even just two weeks of low activity actually increased participants’ risk of later developing serious health conditions such as cardiovascular disease.

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We know that physical activity is good for us. This is irrefutable, and we’ve known this for a long time. As far back as the 1950s, the link between day-to-day physical activity and health was first identified in the London transport workers study.

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Since then, some have branded physical activity a “miracle cure” for cardiovascular risk. Yet, as a society, we are more sedentary than ever, and cardiovascular-related deaths remain the leading cause of death worldwide.

What better way to ensure kids get enough physical activity and enough outdoor time than by integrating it into the school curriculum?

More play time, more socializing, more activity. Less sitting, less brainwashing, less passivity.