The Highwire with Del Bigtree - HOW LOCKDOWNS HURT KIDS

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

Despite attempts at gaslighting by Fauci and others, school closures have caused damage and loss of life into the future according to fact-based economist calculations. With masking kids still occurring within America, why are so many demanding these restrictions?#Fauci #MaskingChildren #CaliforniaTeachersUnionBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

And this was a recent interview, I guess before he goes out the door, he's going to lay some zingers for us to pick up. Fauci slam for denying school lockdowns irreparably damaged kids. No remorse. So he was asked if he did not, if these school lockdowns, if he had any remorse over those. And he said, no, I don't think they damaged the kids. We're fine. No big deal. Let's move on. The best policy measure we've ever taken. And I'm going to go down in history as one of the greatest public health specialists. But that's not the case. And remember, how did we get there? And how did they stay? And how did they stay? They locked down. We've reported on that a lot, but some new emails released had some really shocking situation. Check this out. So emails, California Teachers Union ran oppositional research on parents who wanted schools open. That's headlines that were just revealed in a discovery and court documents. This was the California Teachers Union. They hired someone to run research. Now, this is pretty, this is pretty standard for politicians. There's not spying on the parents that are like looking into these parents. They're simply stating. what they want from their schools for their children.

Right, and it was a group of parents who had won a court case. They sued the state of California, the San Diego, particularly, to reopen the schools there, they won. So a month later, instead of saying, hey, you know, good job, or you won on the science or whatever. The California Teachers Association basically ran this oppositional research, said, we want to know who these people are, how they're funding this, what are the ideological leanings of the groups pushing for these reopenings,

their politics. they want to know everything about them. So that is how they are greeted for opening the schools against that guidance. And why did they want those schools open? Interesting. Well, some new headlines came out showing actually more of the issues with those closings. And this is what it looks like. Nations report card, two decades of growth wiped out by two years of a pandemic.

Now, this is math and reading scores have just plummeted since the lowest in the, basically since the 70s. And what's interesting about this is, you know, a lot of the experts, educational experts said, you know, closing schools, obviously going remote learning is going to have an issue on math because that's intensive. That's very, it's in the class, a room intensive learning. But reading, they thought, would be fine because it would be a one-to-one switchover. Didn't happen. Same thing. A lot of plummeting in the reading categories as well. And one of the biggest issues here, as Fauci said, this irreparable damage that he didn't think happens. There's a lot of research. Now, this is a great research article by the American Institute for Economic Research.

school closures contra fauchy school closings will shorten lives so it's not just the lockdowns in normal everyday people it's the school closings particularly and it says in here this is a highly resource article i i everyone should go to this if they need some more information but it says here nwea research organization estimated future earnings losses of around 44 000 for students in the united states in another study by mackenzie and company researchers projected future income losses between 49 and 61,000 per student due to learning losses. Both of these studies suggest a lifetime loss of over $2 trillion for the current cohort of American children once they get into the workforce.

It goes on to say a recent article by James Brogel from George Mason University and Kip Viscousy from Vanderpelt University found that each loss of $1 trillion income will lead to about 9,200 deaths. Therefore, the two trillion in lost future income for American children can be associated with over 18,000 early deaths in the future. And finally, it finishes by saying this. Articles in leading medical journals such as Health Affairs and JAMA show little to no impact of the school shutdowns on community spread. That's an inconvenient truth to a society that plays so much faith in shutdown proponents at the pandemic's beginning. And Del, that might be news to some people.

but if you've been watching the high wire and the research of the guests that we've had on, back in November of 2020, all the way back then, we're going two years ago. We had Darren Beady on, amazing researcher at the time with Revolver News, and he had sanctioned a research through Revolver News. And this is what he had to say about that two years ago. Listen to this. All right. Early on when COVID came, there was a lot of talk about, oh, we need to lock everything down because the economy is not more important than one human life. If it will save one human life, we need to shut down the entire economy. And what this study does, I think in the most general terms, is it totally refutes that frame

of thinking, that in fact, you cannot separate lives from livelihood. But the most important take-home point here is that it's not this trade-off between economy and lives. There are very demonstrable connections between economic conditions and public health conditions. Economists know all too well that this connection exists and they uniquely ignored this connection in order to support this policy blunder of lockdowns. Wow. I mean, I remember we've stated these things so many times throughout this pandemic. We've had so many Toby Rogers on multiple times talking about the math behind this. And I think for a lot of people, this is weird, right? To equate human lives to math. But this is technically, you know, how these decisions are supposed to be made. You were supposed to have looked at all of the different ramifications and potential outcomes of what you're doing. And none of these people that look at sort of life, years lost, or value of life ever were allowed into the room to be a part of the team discussing lockdowns here in America, which is crazy. And the same thing in England and all around

the world. These people were locked out of the conversation. And now we're all going to feel these repercussions for years to come. Yeah, it's fascinating how no one was doing a cost-benefit analysis, from America to the UK to any other country, really. That's a fascinating piece on this. But as we move forward, parents have fought every step of the way to get their kids back in school, to get these restrictions off them. And they've won some big fights, a lot of them in court. And we're peeling back these layers, but there's still some layers on there. So the big thing, obviously, is school openings. No more closures.

The kids are back in school, but they still have these restrictions on them. Remember, the masks have been associated with a lot of learning disabilities and developmental disabilities. They're still on. Look at these headlines. I was shocked to see this. Newark public schools face mask rules will stay in place, but some parents are frustrated. Some parents. Then here, L.A. heat wave playground asphalt sizzles to 145 degrees in extreme heat waves. Parents demand school shade. And there's a picture in this article. You can't really see it too well, but it has the kids out playing in the playground. And they all have masks on. And this is happening across parts of L.A. as identified by this tweet here.

This is LA Uprising on Twitter page. Today, Mar Vista, West L.A. rec center, cooling centers open across the city for excessive heat. Kids forced to mask inside playing sports. At mayor of L.A. and the Los Angeles City Council should be ashamed. And then we have Secretary Miguel Cardona. He's the Secretary of Education for the United States. Someone tweeted at him as well to kind of give him an earful. He says here, Secretary Cardona, you are sitting in a room with a bunch of maskless older adults, as is your right.

Now, will you please use your position to speak up. against the federal toddler mask mandate in the Head Start program. Why should four-year-olds be condemned to another year of masks? And there he is sitting with Jill Biden, Joe Biden's wife, a bunch of other higher government figures with no masks. And plenty of people, by the way, the only ones that are in any sort of risk situation, not four-year-olds who have zero risk, but people in that room, if you want to be a hypochondriac, that would be the place to do it.

You're not doing it there. Then why are kids? And let me just make this point, too, because I know we have a lot of viewers, you know, living in California, places where this is going on. I pray nobody watching this show is sending your children to schools where they're having to wear a mask. I think that is unconscionable. They will never be the same again. You are destroying their spirit.

They are going to have issues fearing the air they breathe for the rest of their lives. And if you really feel like there's no way out, I'm going to say something I never thought I'd say. I think you should wear a mask all day the same time your kids are. So that you're thinking about the fact of what your kid is going through because no adult that I'm, know is wearing their mask all eight hours. They were going into their offices, taking it off, hopping your car, taking it off. Your kid isn't taking it off. It's not fair. It's not right. It's sick and demented. And please, please don't let that happen to your children. It's time to homeschool. It's time to get out and change your life. It's time to move out of California if you have to.

But please don't destroy the soul of your child simply because you got to get to work and there's nothing you can do about it. That's just not an excuse anymore and your kids won't excuse you when they have all sorts of other health and psychological issues because of what's been done here. And it's not 2020 anymore. We know a lot more about this thing. And, you know, if people take one thing away from this segment is to raise awareness about this, this is the Head Start program in LA. They are still masking. And they're still following their interim guidelines. And this was what that tweet was about. This is their mask requirements to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 and the Head Start programs. And it says here, universal masking for all individuals, two years of age and older.

That means volunteers. That means teachers. Obviously, kids. This is still going on. So we're not quite out of the woods yet, but we're making a lot of progress, especially in the courts. But we still have to peel these last mandates off. This thing is over.

Let's let these kids breathe. Amen. Absolutely. It's so important. It's so important. And it's just, it's clear now to me, since you now have the CDC not even recommending the masks anymore, that this is social engineering. They want compliant human beings that will just allow themselves to be tracked and chipped or whatever they need to do in the future. If you don't want that future,

it starts with our children. We've got to make a difference now.