Posted on 03/05/2024 9:57:18 AM PST by John Semmens
In an appearance on ABC's "The View," psychologist and TV personality Dr. Phil asserted that "the lockdowns of schools did more harm to children than COVID ever could have. In '08, '09, smartphones became common, and kids stopped living their lives and started watching other people live their lives, and so we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness and suicide since records have been kept. COVID hits 10 years later, and the same agencies that knew what had already happened are the agencies that shut down the schools for two years. Schools are the support system for children. Locking them out aggravated these problems."
"But we were protecting them from COVID," Whoopi said. "We kept them out of the places where they could get sick."
Dr. Phil pointed out that "children were the least vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID, and that's not an opinion. That's a fact. Parents pleaded with schools to reopen because they could see the toll that isolation was taking on their kids. More than a third of high school students said they experienced poor mental health."
"Another overlooked negative impact occurred when children suffering abuse at home lost the respite that going to school allowed them," he added. "Signs of abuse were unable to be observed by teachers and other school staff. Clearly, the lockdowns were a colossal mistake that will have lifelong consequences for many of the children subjected to that ill-consider quack remedy for a pandemic that posed little danger to them."
Speaking of colossal mistakes, a study of 390 people who had long COVID in Thailand found that 377 of them (97%) had been vaccinated. Authors of the study lamented that "despite the extensive distribution of vaccines and antiviral therapies, the prevalence of long COVID remains high." Other studies suggest that "long COVID may be caused by a negative reaction to the spike protein present in the COVID mRNA vaccines."
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so true. which is why we decided to home school when the ‘experts’ and ‘authorities’ locked down even our private school.
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