From March 2020 to February 2022 all Honduran children have been forced to stay home and do school via zoom. The teachers would hand out assignments once a week the parents would retrieve the printed out assignments and pay 30-50 Lps. They children had no incentive to do schoolwork, or to even participate in zoom or Whatsapp meetings. The law said that all children had to be passed from one grade to the next.

COVID ‘crisis’ gave us all opportunities as well as hardships. Honduran government like many others chose to waste the opportunities that come in moments of trial and advertency. Instead of developing resilience, trust and cohesion in its citizens the policies of Honduran government created learned helplessness, mistrust and division.

The locking of children at home, away from schools has increased anxiety, loneliness and stress. There were many dramas playing themselves out behind the doors of island home. Parents of many Roatan schoolchildren could not afford to buy smart phones, tablets or even internet packages for their children. Some Roatan children could not do their professional practice and therefore couldn’t receive their high school diploma.

Other students have been passed from class to class without requiring them to show adequate knowledge. A couple years later the teachers have to deal with children who never mastered reading, math skills required in prior years.

According to UK’s National Institute of Health the lockdowns and not allowing children to attend schools had a tangible effect of reducing IQ rates in schoolchildren. An average IQ in Honduras is 81 and should try to hold to every point all cost.

The ripple effect of less smart Honduran society will have an effect on everything: quality of life, life span, GDP, health, you name it. The children that were conditioned for two years to stay indoors and look at scream often hove little desire to play outdoors or interact with children now that they can. This was not such a hard thing to predict.

Locking of children at home, away from schools has increased anxiety, loneliness and stress.

In February 2022 classes at Honduran school buildings begun anew. Sadly, Honduran teacher unions insisted that if they were to return to work in school only if their pupils were to wear masks. The authorities promised that if they perform an inspection and find children not wearing masks they would close the school. The Hondurans are sacrificing their youngest for the sake of a fleeing sense of security, a false sense of safety. As history teaches us: those who sacrifice freedom for the sake of safety will end up with neither.

The senseless torture of Honduran children is not over. The Honduran Education ministry requires any child that wanted to be in Honduran school system to be injected with experimental COVID–19 gene therapy. Since the introduction of child “vaccinations” in January 2022 many Honduran schoolchildren received as many as three injections.

The mid and long term effects of these gene therapies won’t be known for decades. What is known that children are not an at risk group of COVID and injections increase their risk for Myocarditis and Pericarditis. Some countries, such as Denmark and Sweden for example, have stopped COVID injections persons under 18 because of exactly that. Long term effect of gene therapies on children, especially that affecting their fertility, Alzheimer is completely unknown.

The two-year absence from classrooms has caused another unintended effect. Through widespread use of cell phones, and tablets required by the teachers in lockdowns many children became addicted to smart phones, addicted to social media, to video games and even pornography.

The madness of forcing children to wear masks in schools also continues. Some Roatan students who are cough not wearing masks I class are made to stand in the corner as punishment. The entire exercise was that of indoctrination and teaching children how to obey the rules.

The media, parents have repeated the mantra of fearing the unmasked, of fearing physical contact of fear of ever-present invisible viruses that can kill you or your loved one. Many young minds were warped by this fear mongering. These phobias will haunt the society for many decades to come. The fear of invisible viruses, the fear of being contaminated by another person.

In a cruel and short sited decision no exceptions were made to children with special needs. Schoolchildren have allergies and respiratory problems still have to wear masks. Other has developed gun disease aggravated by bacteria trapped in children mouth for hours.

The fear instilled in Honduran and Roatan children will have a far lasting, sometime lifelong lasting effect. Creating phobias that will take therapy sessions, or maybe never disappear.

Many of the school buildings fell into disrepair, and during the 2020 and 2021 hiatus.

On Roatan in Modelo and Juan Brooks school they robbed fans, electrical wire and computers.

The entire exercise was that of indoctrination and teaching children how to obey the rules.

Municipal taxes now go towards repairing the school buildings.

Obesity epidemic has spiked in a country that already has is already has a high incidence of diabetics. The unintended consequences have multiplied. Unintended by some, intended by others.

Honduran educators have sacrificed the potential and future of young generation for the sake of complying with nonsensical and dangerous rules. This succeeded in creating unquestioning, complacent future generations of semi intelligent workers.

There are winners in this situation as well. The pharmaceutical industry gained many new consumers of Prozac, Ritalin and Insulin. The Honduran state got themselves more obedient, more compliant generation of yes-citizens who will not question their authority or competence.

Thirty Forgotten Roatanians Sneak Back Home

A boat with around 30 people arrived in Jonesville at 3AM on May 16. Their desperate trip was preempted by two months of pleadings, petitions and protests addressed to central and municipal governments of Roatan. All their pleas were answered with empty promises and tear gas.

According to Bay Islands Governor Dino Silvestri nine people presented themselves to authorities upon arrival, another seven were arrested ad put under quarantine and fourteen others have not been yet located some of them in Santa Helena. According to Governor Silvestri, the radar system installed on the west of the island didn’t pick the boat’s signal.

 “It’s been over two months and not even the plan [for returning of stranded on the mainland islanders] has been created, people can only have much patience, and now they are out of it, angry, desperate and broke,” wrote Haydee Muñoz, a Roatan resident.

Tegucigalpa technocrats locked out 20,000 Santos Guardiolans without giving them access to medicine, to supermarkets, banks or gas. 

Since March 16, Roatan alongside other 17 Honduran Departments have been pressed into fit-all heavy handed policy of shutting down people in their homes and hoping for the best. “All constitutional rights have been suspended,” said Governor Dino Silvestri.

On May 16, officials at the Central Government’s – National Risk Management System [Sistema Nacional de Gestión de Riesgos – SINAGER] have decided to cut of municipality of Santos Guardiola for 14 days from the rest of the world. “If the results come out positive, the department will go into absolute curfew,” the unsigned SINAGER document threatened Utilians, Guanajans and Roatanians.

Tegucigalpa technocrats locked out 20,000 Santos Guardiolans without giving them access to medicine, to supermarkets, banks or gas stations. The immune from legal action technocrats were deciding about people’s lives from their offices in Tegucigalpa.

The next day protesters gathered at the border between the two Roatan Municipalities. After several hours they forced down the blockade of the National Police that attempted to keep residents of Santos Guardiola from crossing into Roatan Municipality.

The past 63 days of “Red Alert” shutting down did not allow the islanders or the Central Government to create COVID-19 treatment infrastructure. The island has no COVID-19 testing labs, no ventilators and trained staff to manage the ventilators.

Governor Silvestri announced that $25,000 from the COVID-19 emergency fund will be given to a committee that is coordinating the return of Roatanians home from the mainland. While Utila managed to bring back 19 of its people, around 250 people are still waiting to come back to Roatan in La Ceiba.

After Thirty Eight Days of Isolation, Island Officials Plead with Central Government to Reopen their Economy

Numerous pleas for Roatan and Bay Islands internal economy to be opened came from Mayors and other island officials, but have fallen on death ears. “We are asking to normalize internal movement in the Bay Islands because we have zero cases of Covid19. Here we have permanent monitoring so no one enters the island. Here we have people who are very hungry Sir”, wrote Steven Garcia Arch, Bay Islands COPECO chief on April 26 to Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández . The president read the message, but has not responded.

This latest plea for threatening Bay Islands on merits of its geographical uniqueness and stringent isolation comes after the escalation of restrictions by National Police arresting people attempting to travel between Santos Guardiola and Roatan and confiscating their vehicles. The de facto martial law has made it illegal to move about between 6pm and 6am and during entire weekends.

“We put the reward to keep the wolf outside the chicken pen. Now we have a wolf inside the chicken pen.”

Ironically it was the National Police itself has caused the biggest security medical threat to the island when on April 10 Jaime Barahona, Bay Islands police chief, with 11 other National Police and three Navy personnel came on a boat from highly populated and covid-19 reporting areas of the country. The officials spend the night at the Los Fuertes police headquarters. “We put the reward to keep the wolf outside the chicken pen. Now we have a wolf inside the chicken pen” said Jerry Hynds, Roatan’s Mayor at a security meeting about the quarantine violation and possible infection by the National Police. Due to the pressure of local authorities and public the 15 officials were forced to leave the island the next day.

While there are usually 230 National police officers stationed on the Roatan the security on the island rests mostly in the hands of private security companies at residences, banks and businesses.

With the economy on a shut down the security situation on Roatan has steadily deteriorated. There were several home invasions and robberies of basic materials such as fuel and food have been increasing. On March 29, Ron Kellerman, a retired special Ops Vietnam veteran was killed at his home in First Bight. Another murder occurred in Oak Ridge. The drug smuggling has continued and Honduran Navy has fired at a boat presumed to be bringing cocaine from the coast to Oak Ridge area.

While a majority of Bay Islanders would like to have their economy be open like Sweden, Holland did, and the Honduran Central Government is determined to confine healthy islanders to their homes. That is unlikely to happen as Bay Islands are just a speckle of little importance on a map of countries that fell to the global agenda of eliminating individual freedoms, total surveillance and economic looting.

The “Red Alert” laws have quarantined healthy islanders and convinced them to give up their rights to worship, right to travel, and rights to assemble “for their own safety.” While fearful and confused the islanders submitted to the draconian measures, but when the dust settles they are likely to be left with less security and less freedoms.