Peel Health says children as young as FOUR YEARS OLD must be put in solitary quarantine for FOURTEEN DAYS if someone at the childcare center or in their classroom tests positive for Covid.

“Peel Health has issued guidelines to parents instructing them to keep any children who have been sent home because a classmate has tested positive for COVID-19 isolated in a separate room from all other family members for 14 days.

The severe guidelines, which apply even to small children who are dismissed from child care, are being criticized by experts as harmful and not supported by science.

“This is cruel punishment for a child, especially for younger children, 4-10 years old,” Dr. Susan Richardson, a microbiologist and infectious disease physician who is also a professor emerita at University of Toronto, wrote in an email to the Sun.

“Shutting a child off from their parents and siblings for up to 14 days in this manner could produce significant and long-lasting emotional and psychological effects.””

This folks, is outright CHILD ABUSE. Oh sure, they’ll say it’s just guidelines. But given the events of the last twelve months, this is a mandate pure and simple.

Children, teens, college students, and adults the world over are suffering due to these draconian lockdowns that are not based on science. They are suffering because government mandates have superseded genuine science and common sense. 

A bright eight year old is at school, because YAY! schools are open. That eight year old is thrilled to finally be seeing classmates in person and learning directly from a teacher instead of through a computer screen. Then, suddenly, a parent/sibling/classmate tests positive for COVID. The class is now required to quarantine. 

What should that mean? The child is at home and the family quarantines for the mandated period of time. Not in Canada evidently. Instead, the parents are supposed to shove that young child into a bedroom and lock the door for FOURTEEN DAYS, only letting that child out to use the bathroom or eat meals with no one else around. That’s the “recommendation” from Peel Health.

If you think a four, eight, or ten year old will be strong and resilient enough to handle that for two solid weeks without experiencing massive loneliness, tears, depression, and nightmares, then you need one helluva reality check. Peel Health needs a goddamned GIBBS slap of reality upside their heads with parents leading the charge. 

We’ve written extensively as to how the lockdowns are adversely affecting children across the United States. We’ve written of our concerns, our pain, and our anger at what our governments are doing to our children. It’s a very real issue that will have long-term negative affects on children for years to come. 

This is sobering: UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital has seen a 66 percent increase in the number of suicidal children in the emergency room and a 75 percent increase in youth who required hospitalization for mental health services.https://t.co/GMb6L3BQzy

— Monica Gandhi MD, MPH (@MonicaGandhi9) February 13, 2021

San Francisco, Las Vegas, and multiple schools across the U.S. are belatedly sounding the alarm. Are our supposedly smart public health officials listening? No, no they are not. We aren’t the only ones who have children in crisis.

This virus doesn’t target our children, it targets the elderly and those with comorbidities. But let’s punish the children. Let’s isolate them from everyone. Let’s shove a four, eight, or ten year old into a room and lock the door for fourteen days, whether that child has symptoms or is asymptotic. Again, this is CHILD ABUSE. 

What is even more hideous about this, is some parents have already been doing shit like this!

For those parents who believe that no parent would ever… pic.twitter.com/Rs67imQySC

— Peter Varelas (@varelas_peter) February 28, 2021

The reaction and the “cure” to this virus has gotten beyond out of hand. Covid is a fucking VIRUS. It can be dealt with and it is. There are now THREE major vaccines here in the United States and around the world. But are public health officials listening? No. Instead they are on a power trip. 

Even the United Nations says that a lockdown such as what Peel Health is demanding is cruel and unusual. It is against the rules. In fact, Mandela rules 45 and 46 explicitly state that solitary confinement for children is prohibited and health-care personnel are not allowed any role in determining restrictive measures. Oh sure, some jackass person at Peel Health will respond with “but COVID!” and should have his or her ass handed back in a heartbeat. 

If child care centers here in the U.S. did what Peel Health is mandating, the owner/operator of that center would be in jail. If a teacher or child care professional hears of a family doing that to a child, they HAVE to report that. Because yes, locking a child in a room for fourteen days is CHILD ABUSE. Period. 

Our children should not be forced to suffer because of political bullshit like this. It. Needs. To. Stop. 

Peel Health is mandating child abuse with these rules and any parent who follows these rules is just as culpable in the damage that will be inflicted on their child. Yet, as this thread shows, sensible Canadian health experts are saying enough of the lockdowns. 

It's become clear that there are too many Canadians getting their news in an echo chamber, completely unaware that many experts here oppose lockdowns. This thread compiles news stories on these Canadian experts. I hope it's a useful resource that gets this news shared widely.

— Anthony Furey (@anthonyfurey) January 6, 2021

The fear-mongering and abuse of our children needs to come to a screeching halt NOW. I’ve had enough. Have you?

UPDATE: Peel Health, who vetted this mandate and made a graph about it, suddenly backtracked this morning. They made a mistake you see. Therefore, nothing to see here move along!

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