Back in 2020 I was warning about what Covid infections would do to some developing fetuses and babies and infants.
I was screaming it.
Here's the next stage of effects:
"teachers reported children with poor basic motor skills and underdeveloped muscles"...
"A deputy head in the north-west reported an increase in “delayed walkers” with “clumsy movements, dropping things""
"I’ve got two children [in my class] who physically cannot sit on the carpet"
"They don’t have core strength"
"children arriving at school in nappies"
"Some children starting school ‘unable to climb staircase’"
"teachers reported children with poor basic motor skills and underdeveloped muscles"
This article blames screen time, but... how do I put this... I literally watched with my own eyes as expectant mums here caught Covid while pregnant and then gave birth to children with developmental problems.
I've watched these children their entire lives, and seen what happened to their mums before they were born.
It's not all of the kids born at that time, but more than I've ever seen in my working life before.
And the kids with neuro problems don't have them because of screens.
It's literally the wiring of their bodies.
Clumsiness.
Poor bladder control.
Developmental issues.
Special learning needs.
Muscle weakness.
And plenty more.
How do covid infections do that?
More mechanisms than you can count.
I'm genuinely fed up of explaining this again and again and again.
I suppose I should though for those in denial:
Covid infection can harm the placenta.
It can harm nutrient flow to the baby.
It can kill cells essential to development.
It can disable cells ability to manoeuvre properly during fetal development.
It can cause inflammation during development preventing proper assembly of body parts.
Oh flip it. I could keep going, but it's too painful.
Go look for yourself and find the studies that detail the effects of Covid infections on pregnant mothers and developing babies.
No vaccines were made available to babies here.
Not even to any under tens except privately.
I have watched as mums and babies and toddlers have been battered repeatedly by covid.
Just last week I sat with a mum who said "she's been a bit lifeless for the last two months".
"She's just had no energy since she got sick in October. She tries running around and then crashes."
I personally think that's a toddler with Long Covid.
And, no, the mum is avoiding *any* screen time for her child.
Feel free to file this one under "tern knows absolutely nothing about anything so shouldn't even open his mouth", but occasionally I wonder about the way that Covid sometimes seems to behave more like some bacteria than like other airborne viruses.
A few intracellular bacteria like TB and Chlamydia Pneumoniae are great at delaying or suppressing the early immune response to establish infection.
They're so desperate to deny replication when the evidence screams it all round.
The reason the team went looking was that T cells were overactivated in the patients' brain stem, spinal cord, bone marrow, nasopharyngeal & hilar lymphoid tissue, heart tissues, and gut wall...
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I regularly ask myself whether I'm right to be trying to avoid Covid infections.
Situations evolve and change, so it's worth staying up to date on information.
Then this week I stumbled across an odd pair of charts at the end of the UKHSA's weekly Flu and Covid graphs release (which also include reports on other infections).
They come under the title:
"HCAI, Fungal, AMR, AMU & Sepsis Division"
This report coming out in February's Journal of Infection is quite something:
"Characterisation of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in healthcare workers within the United Kingdom: risk factors for infection during four successive waves."