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Dr. Phil McGraw incensed Whoopi Goldberg and her fellow liberal co-hosts on “The View” on Monday when he dared to criticize school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and revealed that he How harmful they actually were to children.
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When “The View” co-host Sara Haynes asked McGraw about statements she made in her new book “We've Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity” regarding the pressure of social media on children. When asked, he said it was an opportunity to use this question to attack school closures due to the pandemic.
“Like, in '08, '09, smartphones came out, and kids started, they stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives, and so we saw the biggest surge and depression, anxiety, loneliness. “We have seen the highest levels of suicide, and suicide, since records have ever been kept, and that continues to be the case,” McGrath began.
“And then 10 years later COVID hit, and the same agencies that knew this were the same agencies that closed schools for two years,” he said. “Who does this? Who takes away the support system from these kids? Who takes it away and shuts it down?”
“And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped mandated reporters from seeing the children who were being abused and sexually assaulted and, in effect, sent them home and left them with their abusers. “There was no way to get seen and referrals dropped 50% to 60%,” McGrath continued.
goldberg lost it
This was enough to excite the ultra-liberal Goldberg.
“They were trying to save the lives of children,” she replied. “Remember, we know a lot of people who died during this time. That's why people were not eating bon bons.”
“Not schoolboys,” McGrath said without interrupting.
“Maybe we're lucky they (didn't go to school) because we kept them away from places where they could get sick because no one wanted to believe we had a problem,” Goldberg stammered.
When co-host Ana Navarro asked McGraw if he was saying no children died from COVID, he shot back, “I'm saying this was the safest group, they were less There were vulnerable groups, and they suffered from it and will suffer more. He said that he has mismanaged Covid rather than being exposed to Covid and that is not an opinion. it's a fact.”
Goldberg and her fellow co-hosts were mortified when their own viewers applauded McGraw's last statement. A clearly frustrated Goldberg was then left with no choice but to end the segment and cut the show to commercial, saying, “Okay, Phil, we don't even have time to talk about this anymore “
Watch this entire segment below, the relevant part starts at around 6:48.
specialists are contemplating
USA Immediately reported that in January final yr, the educational journal Nature Human Conduct revealed a report that discovered that college students in 15 international locations had been falling behind by a couple of third of a yr as a consequence of pandemic-related faculty closures, shifting to digital studying. Was mendacity. And all this impacts psychological well being.
In March 2023, the College of Oxford discovered that COVID-19 faculty closures might really hurt “youngsters's studying and well-being”.
“Our complete evaluate, which systematically consists of greater than 132 distinctive research, highlights a number of the international impacts of COVID-19-related faculty closures,” stated Oxford professor Kamal R Mahtani. “Though there could also be some affiliation with diminished neighborhood transmission, there are additionally notable associations with harms, together with declines in bodily and psychological well being, studying loss and will increase in home violence.”
The Queen stated, “Well being care leaders should deeply think about the stability of advantages and harms when implementing future insurance policies on behalf of such a susceptible a part of our society.”
Liberals like Goldberg didn't take any time to think about what results it may need on youngsters after they pushed for college closures throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. We applaud McGrath for now holding them accountable and taking a stand for youngsters in all places.
In the end, we have to guarantee that, for the sake of kids in all places, we by no means let something like a COVID-19 faculty closure occur once more.
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