A FATHER believes the Covid inquiry’s verdict that lockdown irreparably damaged a generation of children pretty much gets him off the hook.
Nathan Muir, aged 46, decided that as his children, aged seven and nine in 2020, were among those for whom ‘ordinary childhood was brought to a halt’ and were left with ‘lasting scars’ none of their subsequent behavioural issues can be blamed on him.
He said: “Bad father and bad role model, my arse. It’s lockdown. That’s why Jed wags school to go shoplifting, because the government basically told him to.
“He was at an impressionable age, and the prime minister’s on telly telling him staying off school will save lives? That’s going to sink in. Subconsciously, he’s still playing the hero.
“And it says here that nobody was prepared for the sudden and enormous task of educating children in their homes. I certainly wasn’t, what with having no GCSEs, which is why I delegated that job to YouTube. Turns out it’s not all tuition videos on there.
“That two years off school – I didn’t bother sending them in between lockdowns, I could see which way the wind was blowing – did so much damage. I couldn’t fix it. I knew better than to even try.
“Next time the school calls me in, probably Tuesday, I’ll tell them they never learned basic arithmetic or that bullying’s wrong or how to read or punctuality or when not to swear or the UK drinking age because of lockdown. Thank God. For a moment there I blamed myself.”
