Posted on 09/03/2021 11:18:32 AM PDT by george76
All dissent must be banished..
Forbes deleted an article written by an education expert who asserted that forcing schoolchildren to wear face masks was causing psychological trauma after the piece began to go viral.
The article (archived here) was written by Zak Ringelstein, who has a a PhD in education from Columbia University and founded Zigadoo, an educational and development app aimed at helping children.
Ringelstein explains how he worked hard to remove standardized testing from schools but that this was derailed when the pandemic began, a process that “transformed the American public education system into something unrecognizable: a system of restrictions and mandates far more repressive than standardized testing ever was.”
Ringelstein attacked the notion that “kids are resilient” and can overcome the onerous COVID rules imposed on them by asserting, “Masks and social distancing induce trauma and trauma at a young age is developmentally dangerous, especially for children who are experiencing trauma in other parts of their lives.”
He went further, noting how the new measures were creating classrooms full of lonely, atomized kids.
“Students in most American classrooms now must wear a covering over their face and stay distanced from their peers the entire school day. In many schools, students are forced to play by themselves during recess. Even for the youngest of school children, desks are in rows. Kids can’t see each other’s smiles or learn critically important social and verbal skills.”
Noting how “a child’s current chance of death from Covid-19 in America is lower than their chance of dying from a lightning strike or car accident,” Ringelstein argued that the risk of children getting ill is far outweighed by the psychological trauma caused by social distancing rules.
“Neurological research demonstrates that kids who experience this kind of fear and trauma at a young age undergo structural and functional restructuring of their brain’s prefrontal cortex, resulting in emotional and cognitive processing problems,” he writes.
“Furthermore, children in masks who are socially distanced are more likely to lead a sedentary lifestyle at school and home, and therefore are also more likely to become both obese and depressed. Obesity disproportionately affects children from low-income backgrounds and can lead to lifelong health challenges that often result in early death. Tragically, the prevalence of clinical depression and anxiety have already doubled for children globally since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and will likely worsen with continued restrictions.”
“Children in masks are also likely to miss out on critical language development, another fundamental area of growth in early years where children from low-income backgrounds already have disproportionate disadvantages.”
Presumably because Ringelstein dared to challenge the sanity of forcing kids to mask up, Forbes pulled the article after it had begun to get traction via social media.
Not even experts in education who intimately know how children are impacted by trauma are allowed to offer a whimper of dissent against the COVID orthodoxy that demands ruthless ideological compliance.
Any information that challenges mask zealots must be banished.
As we recently highlighted, a study by researchers at Brown University found that mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as a result of lockdown.
Michael Curzon noted that two of the primary causes for this are face masks and children being atomized as a result of being kept away from other children.
“Children born over the past year of lockdowns – at a time when the Government has prevented babies from seeing elderly relatives and other extended family members, from socialising at parks or with the children of their parent’s friends, and from studying the expressions on the faces behind the masks of locals in indoor public spaces – have significantly reduced verbal, motor and overall cognitive performance compared to children born before, according to a new U.S. study. Tests on early learning, verbal development and non-verbal development all produced results that were far behind those from the years preceding the lockdowns,” he wrote.
PJW has a bunch of good articles and videos.
A cabal of radical stunts are running the mags — digital & print.
"CDC is not aware of any randomized controlled trials that show that masks or double masks or cloth face coverings are effective against COVID-19.”
https://twitter.com/tlowdon/status/1387049350111449097
Forbes has been a leftist rag for some time now.
Thanks
The Ministry of Truth must approve.
I do think the Government would put all kids on home computer learning if they could get away with it and likely will be the educational means in the future.
Ministry Of Truth-None Shall Question The Masks
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Forbes just memory-holed an article it published by a child trauma expert warning of the alleged risks of school mask mandates
Jesse James Sep 1st, 2021 12:13 pm
A few weeks ago Forbes published an article by teacher and Columbia University Ph.D student Zack Ringelstein, warning about the harms of mask mandates for kids:
“Masks and social distancing induce trauma and trauma at a young age is developmentally dangerous, especially for children who are experiencing trauma in other parts of their lives.”
In the essay, Ringelstein also argued that “children in masks who are socially distanced are more likely to lead a sedentary lifestyle at school and home, and therefore are also more likely to become both obese and depressed” and that “children in masks are also likely to miss out on critical language development, another fundamental area of growth in early years.”
It was a bracing article, notable for its unvarnished assertions about school mask mandates at a time when questioning those mandates is professionally and personally risky.
It would appear that Forbes belatedly decided the same thing, because as of Wednesday, the article is... gone.
None Shall Question The Masks!
Yes
Minitrue. Please use the appropriate Newspeak.
I never ever thought I would live to see the day our country would turn into such an awful freedom killer. Shame on the media and the education system that would bring this country so far down a rabbit hole that it probably will not recover. Makes me glad I am older and will not see the death of the USA.
Forbes hasn’t been for many years now
Forbes has degenerated into a mediocre list list
Historically, Forbes has always been a warm bowl of jello...
On the heels of Forbes magazine editor Randall Lane threatening companies that hire Trump officials, we now have .. cracking down on free speech..
Forbes deleted an article by frequent contributor, Jim Collins, that dared to strongly criticize Twitter which is now obviously a prohibited activity.
Collins pulled no punches in his strong criticism of Twitter ..
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3926006/posts
We have a bunch of non-medical professionals playing doctor with children.
There are laws against practicing medicine without a license.
Some politicians and government administrators need to go to jail.
Many of the political tyrants love their new found power / fighting hard to keep it.
They are often caught violating their own orders.
Please go to James Lindsay’s New Discourses website or youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/newdiscourses/featured
In his lectures he addresses the need to change man at the physical and/or psychological level in order to get them to need socialism. This is an over simplification, but these lunatics have been trying for over a century to find a way to control and remake mankind to suit their pseudo intellectual theories.
In at least one lecture, he says that making mankind unable to cope with the existing environment, is actually inducing psychopathy, as the definition is unable to cope with life. I’ve also been studying earlier Greek and earlier philosophers and they all looked at the common man as a “herd animal”. . .hence Plato’s advocacy for a “philosopher king”. They want to control others.
This sounds a lot like an experiment in that direction. There is no physical health benefit and it may well introduce at least a mild level of psychopathy.
Don’t know hoe it even got published in the first place. Reading the description of his arguments it reads to me he started with a, “masks are bad mkay,” view and worked backwards to try to justify it.
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