
Children’s Health Defense Australia: Saving Our Kids After Covid Lockdowns
Few would disagree that the health of the children today foreshadows the health of the population tomorrow. With that in mind, the past three years of pandemic fear and dystopia have upset any preconceived ideas that the health of the people is on solid ground. In a worldwide response that saw nations lockdown, mask up, and mass vaccinate – ‘to protect grandma’ – it seems scant regard was paid to the cost incurred on the future generation.
Australia was ground zero for many of the more tyrannical restrictions of freedom, and it didn’t go unnoticed. ‘The whole world is alarmed by what’s happening in Australia,’ said Robert F. Kennedy Jr, founder of Children’s Health Defense US. With many states enforcing closed schools, masking of children, social distancing, and mandates, it will be years before the full impact of these actions is known.
As early data emerges on the impact on education, health, and social development, it seems those who might pay the greatest price are the next generation. It is timely then that the Australian Chapter of the Children’s Health Defense was officially launched on August 26 this year.
With a board packed with expertise – Professor Robyn Cosford, Emeritus Professor Ramesh Thakur, lawyers Julian Gillespie and Peter Fam, Dr Astrid Lefringhausen, AMPS secretary and registered nurse Kara Thomas, and medical freedom advocate Cloi Geddes – Children’s Health Defense (CHD) Australia is well placed to bring light to, and stand against, the incursions on children’s health over the Covid years. But the story doesn’t begin there. The Covid response may simply be the catalyst, in Australia at least, for a light to be shone on the deterioration in the health of children over recent decades.
Alarming
‘What we’re seeing in our children now … is an epidemic of chronic disease,’ explains Professor Cosford.
‘The sorts of things that we used to be seeing in older adults, in our grandparents, and our great aunts and uncles. We don’t expect to be seeing them in our children. We’re seeing an epidemic of immunological disorders where nearly half of the children have some kind of allergic-type disease, and we have autoimmune diseases occurring in our children which never have been seen before… We have an epidemic of mental health … (with) some 40 per cent (suffering) with depression, anxiety, OCD, panic disorders, and so on.’
‘And then there’s a big epidemic we’re seeing of neurodevelopmental disorders … one in ten diagnosed with ADHD, one in five with learning disorders, (and) one in 36 with autism. These (figures) have increased dramatically over the last 20-30 years and were unheard of before now.’
With a mission to ‘end childhood health epidemics’, the road ahead looks long. These alarming trends in the health of our children have been brewing for years and now may well have been exacerbated by the additional insult inflicted by the Covid response.
‘I ask as a grandparent: Why did we use children and adolescents as human shields to protect the supposed grown-ups and elderly?’ asks Ramesh Thakur, in his presentation titled Our Enemy the Government. ‘A major study recently concluded that lockdown harmed the emotional development of almost half of all British children.’ With lockdowns, closing of schools, restricted socialising, and masking, it seems the price was paid by the young, who were least at risk, ‘…for a few more months of existing without living by the elderly most at risk,’ concludes Thakur.
Multiple Issues
More concerning and down-right disturbing information is delivered during the launch by fellow presenters, including the adverse effects of the Covid injections, censorship of free speech in science and medicine, DNA contamination in the Pfizer Covid injections, and legal cases in the process which aim to protect our future generations.
Julian Gillespie described the heartache of ‘being belted by a judiciary that’s not acting like a judiciary’ in the recent AVN Babies case. Despite this, an unexpected benefit was the growth in support as the story spread around the nation.
‘Even though we didn’t get the correct and proper decision from the High Court, there was a massive outpouring of donors who told their friends who watched our videos with Maria Z, or Graham Hood, Health Alliance Australia, and AMPS. Parents would (start to) question (as) those videos… were pushed out across the country.’
Speaking to supporters, Gillespie is clear,
‘It is correct to feel good that you participated. It did make a difference. You’ve enabled us to get the message out, which is just the most important thing to allow the court of public opinion to make its mind up. (And) there are millions of us who can share the information and (help) save lives.’
The stakes are high. It seems CHD Australia has formed at just the right time. However, the strength of the organisation will depend not only on the expertise at the helm, but also on those who hear the call and take a stand.
Will you be one of them?
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Originally published at The Spectator Australia. Photo by Lisa Fotios.
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Wicked Lies and Loss of Freedom of Choice . DNA contamination and harmful reactions forced on us and especially on the young by government. Should never happen again , but, they are telling us they are already preparing for vaccines for the next epidemics !
Dr Julie, thank you again for your tireless advocacy for the most vulnerable. You have a brilliant way of packing your pieces with so much evidence, great job!
I am particularly concerned for the knee-jerk reaction of so many in our society that sees every ill as another call for a drug or and injection. Please lets give room from our wonderful body’s natural healing capacity. The background for this is living in the grace and peace of our heavenly father.
Let me also give a plug for a great book that could light the path for many a child to full health – Terrain Therapy: How To Achieve Perfect Health Through Diet, Living Habits & Divine Thinking (2022) by Dr Ulric Williams (Author), Dr Samantha Bailey (Foreword, Editor) https://www.amazon.com.au/Terrain-Therapy-Achieve-Perfect-Thinking/dp/1991185502