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Dr. Phil McGraw provoked Whoopi Goldberg and her fellow liberal co-hosts of “The View” on Monday when he dared to criticize school closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, revealing how much harm they have already done to children.
McGraw votes down
When “The View” co-host Sarah Haines asked McGraw about a statement he made in his new book, “We Have Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America's Soul and Sanity,” regarding the pressures of social media on children, she replied: The opportunity to use this Question to attack school closures due to the pandemic.
“In 2008 and 2009, smartphones came out, and kids started, they stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives, and so we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicide, since records have ever been kept, and it continues on and on,” he began. McGraw.
“Then Covid comes 10 years later, and the same agencies that knew this were the agencies that closed schools for two years,” he added. “Who does that? Who eliminates the support system for these kids? Who takes it and shuts it down?”
“And by the way, when they closed it down, they prevented mandated reporters from seeing children who had been abused and sexually molested, and in effect, they sent them home and left them to their abusers with no way to monitor and monitor them.” “Referrals are down 50% to 60%,” McGraw continued.
Goldberg loses it
This was enough to irritate the ultra-liberal Goldberg.
She replied: “They were trying to save the children’s lives.” “Remember, we know a lot of people who died during this. So people weren't lying around eating bonbons.
“Not school kids,” McGraw interrupted, having none of that nonsense.
“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 had died from the coronavirus, he responded, “I'm saying it was the safest group, they were the lowest-risk group, and they suffered and will suffer the most.” The mismanagement of the coronavirus is more than their exposure to the coronavirus, and that is not an opinion. This is a fact.”
Goldberg and her co-hosts were insulted when their audience applauded this latest statement from McGraw. A visibly frustrated Goldberg had no choice but to end the segment and go to commercial, saying, “Okay, Phil, we don't even have time to talk about it now.”
Check out that full clip below, with the relevant portion starting around the 6:48 mark.
Experts weigh in
USA Today reported that in January of last year, the academic journal Nature Human Behavior published a report that found that students in 15 countries had relapsed by about a third of the year due to the pandemic's school closures, the shift to virtual learning, and the mental health toll of it all.
In March 2023, Oxford University found that school closures due to Covid-19 may have actually harmed “children’s education and well-being”.
Kamal R. said: Mahtani, Oxford professor: “Our comprehensive review, which systematically included more than 132 unique studies, highlights some of the global impacts of school closures associated with Covid-19.” “While there may be some association with reduced community transmission, there are also notable associations with harm, including poorer physical and mental health, learning loss and increased domestic violence.”
“Healthcare leaders must think deeply about the balance between benefits and harms when implementing future policies on behalf of this vulnerable portion of our society,” Maharani added.
Liberals like Goldberg took no time to think about how children would be affected when they pushed for school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. We applaud McGraw for taking it upon themselves now, and for taking a stand on behalf of children everywhere.
Ultimately, we need to ensure that for the sake of children everywhere, we never allow anything like school closures due to COVID-19 to happen again.
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