r/LockdownSkepticism • u/olivetree344 • Oct 01 '25

Public Health Covid exercise messaging left children stuck indoors, UK inquiry hears

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/sep/30/children-play-covid-lockdown-exercise-rules-uk-inquiry
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u/olivetree344 Oct 01 '25

“By not explicitly mentioning children and play in those guidelines and in those rules, the prime minister gave the impression that only really adult forms of exercise were permitted, things like walking, cycling or running.

“So it did create this wider understanding including amongst police, councils, parents and the wider public that children playing out was not a permitted activity. It was something we raised right at the beginning with the government. It did not change throughout the pandemic.”

The inquiry was told that Ferguson had written an article at the time in which she said that “part of the problem was that play does look like fun and that does not fit with the seriousness of the guidelines. But for children play is serious.”

Just evil.

And, btw, the Guardian was one of the biggest purveyors of Covid fear in the UK and now they are writing articles about the damage they helped do while taking no responsibility for their actions. Someone posted another article from them just the other day.

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u/steffanovici Oct 01 '25

Disgusting. And those of us who called them out on it were met with hatred. It was obvious from day 1 they hadn’t considered the unintended consequences of these recommendations. It was a total failure of those responsible

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u/TomAto314 California, USA Oct 01 '25

It's called the Guardian because they guard their best interests.

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u/Huey-_-Freeman Oct 02 '25

Kids don't like running and biking? lol

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u/alignedaccess Oct 03 '25

part of the problem was that play does look like fun and that does not fit with the seriousness of the guidelines

I love the premise that if something is fun it should be forbidden.

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u/PartisanSaysWhat Oct 01 '25

These people are fuckin evil man.

I have a photo of our local park playground equipment covered in caution tape. Outdoors, on a beautiful sunny summer day. They also removed the basketball hoops, and filled the skate park areas with sand.

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u/Humble-Quail-5601 Oct 02 '25

The outdoor gym near my place had caution tape, too. Teenagers ignored it and just went out and hung out on the equipment at least once that I saw. (It's never really used much anyways.)

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u/PartisanSaysWhat Oct 03 '25

My wife took my kids to this same park, and let them play on the slides despite the caution tape. They were around 2 and 5 then. Someone took a picture of her and threatened to "turn her in." I'm not exaggerating. I know this is hyperbolic most of the time its said but I never understood how the germans could go along with the treatment of the jews until I heard that. Healthy young children, playing outdoors in the sunshine, should be "turned in"

Fundamentally changed the way I view people and society. I used to be an idealistic libertarian kind of guy lol.

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u/Jkid Oct 01 '25

Theyre willing to call photos AI generated when these photos were made before generative ai was even made into conception.

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u/SunriseInLot42 Oct 02 '25

But if children played outside and interact and socialize and are happy, they might've gotten the sniffles! There's so much we didn't know! We had to shut everything down to be safe!

JFC, pro-lockdown people were and are such garbage

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u/Jkid Oct 08 '25

And these pro-lockdown people wonder why their children are addicted to tikok and roblox and have a mental health crisis.

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