The Highwire with Del Bigtree - LOCKDOWN LOVERS CHANGE THEIR TUNE

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

Previous cheerleaders of more restrictive lockdowns like Chicago Mayor Lightfoot and Joe Biden are changing their tune on school closures.#JoeBiden #CTA #LoriLightfootBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Schools are shutting back down and they're closing because of this Omicron case surge we're seeing. And as we know, we covered so many times we covered at the top of this segment that the the hospitalizations, the deaths, mortalities, the ICU visits and kids are minuscule. And these teachers are closing these down. This is the headline of what it looked like. We're covering it, tracking it at the high wire. Harms of school closings on kids ignored as teachers and teachers unions rush to remote learning. And this is all in the backdrop of what we know. know now. So this is the Toronto Sun calling it inexcusable. This is an opinion piece,

but these are in all the papers now. Closing schools at this point is inexcusable. This is Jennifer Grant. She writes, it's almost impossible to enumerate the harms of school closures. Let's go to Chicago. That's one of the biggest pops in the news recently. Chicago's Teachers Union voted to close their schools. Chicago schools cancel classes after Teachers Union votes to go virtual. So 73% of the teachers union members voted for remote instruction. Now, that's against a backdrop of this. This is the quote from the article. Roughly 100,000 students and here it is, 91% of its more than 47,000 staff in the district are vaccinated, according to the district. So you're telling me that these vaccinated teachers that are safe, you know, that's why they got the vaccine is to be safe,

are going to put these kids with all the harms we know now of school closures on the chopping block because what? Because they're scared. And this isn't just a Chicago. This is going on everywhere. This is a chart from Verbino. This is their a data aggregator for K through 12 schools showing all the school closings and the, you can see here it's 4,781 schools moving away from in-person instruction. This is due to the pandemic response. And that's just in the first week of January. Now just to remind listeners and viewers, why is this important? There's been lots of studies out talking about the harms, but one of the biggest indicators is years of life loss. This is an article or a research paper in JAMA, estimation of U.S. children's educational

attainment in years of life loss associated with primary school closures during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Now, they talk about a relative risk of annual mortality related to education attainment. And it says here, they say, summed across the population based on the RR, that's relative risk from U.S. studies, an estimated 13.8 million years life loss may be associated with school closures. Now, if that's not enough, we have two of the most celebrated epidemiologist, doctors, Johnny Ionidis. He's the professor of medicine, Stanford University, and then we have Jay Batacharya, great Barrington Declaration, Declaration Siner, creator. They have a new study about lockdowns. Now, these include the schools. And this is what the study looks like.

Again, this should have received mainstream attention. It has not. We're going to do our best to spotlight it here, assessing mandatory stay at home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19. And they write, in the framework of this analysis, there is no evidence that more restrictive non-pharmaceutical interventions lockdowns contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020. 20, this is something that these teachers really should be paying attention to at this point. Yeah, I mean, it's absolutely outrageous. And we've shown the studies.

The studies actually show the safest place for those teachers who think that they're at risk is inside of these schools. That the children are more of a filter. They don't seem to get infected when they do. They don't seem to spread it. They don't spread to the teachers. The numbers are super low. They're much higher in your own home. They're much higher when you walk through a gas station or a grocery store.

All the other things that you are now going to. do with your life other than teach our children are going to put you at a much higher risk for catching the omicron variant variant which has you know got almost a minuscule death rate so they're literally putting themselves at risk and destroying our children's lives life years lost in the millions um it's it's again i mean this is that sort of right mass delusional psychosis that we're all having to witness right before our very eyes and we're supposed to be looking at data-driven information and the cases in kids are already extremely low. And that's with our counting. But as we reported on the high wire previously, the counts are off. And believe it or not, we have Dr. Anthony Fauci,

he just went on the media this past week. And he admitted something. It's been an elephant in the room. And he comes out and says it. Take a look. If you look at the children who are hospitalized, many of them are hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID. And what we mean by that, if a child goes in the hospital, they automatically get tested for COVID, and they get counted as a COVID hospitalized individual, when in fact they may go in for a broken leg or appendicitis or something like that. So it's over counting the number of children who are, quote, hospitalized with COVID as opposed to because of COVID. It's crazy when, you know, like a whole year later, you hear like Dr. Doom saying exactly what we said a year ago, you know, and all of these things. You're miscounting this.

Having COVID is not, you know, it's not why the kid's in there. It's not why people are dying. When the adults, it's cancer, it's heart disease. In this case, broken legs and stuff just because of the, you know, it's not. they happen to have COVID shouldn't be being, you know, listed as why they're in the hospital or being hospitalized. Seems obvious. Right. Yeah. We've been sold a lie on our kids. And that's the bottom line there. But what's interesting now, it's not just Fauci. We have people that previously were all in on the school lockdowns. We're all in and keeping the kids home. They're starting to sound like people

that would appear on the high wire here and talk about actual facts. Listen to mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot. She's going to bat for the parents. Believe it or not, check it out. Wow. I have to tell you, it feels like Groundhog Day, that we are here again at this hour, almost 8 p.m., after everything that we've gone through over the last two years with the CTO leadership. Unfortunately, tonight, CTO leadership is compelling its membership to make a decision that will harm hundreds of thousands of Chicago families who rely upon CPS for their daily needs, for their education. education, for the nutrition, for their safety. That's real harm. And we can't overlook that. I remember very clearly when the previous administration said, open the schools, we got to open the schools, was attacked by Lori Lightfoot and all of those and all of mainstream media. Now all of a sudden, looks like her tune is changing as we start to wake up from this nightmare we're in and say,

oh my God. And when you think about Chicago, can you imagine, you know, this, these urban schools, you put some of these kids back on the street and don't have, you know, with, you know, nowhere to go. Crime is already just through the roof and kids, you know, that don't have somewhere to go or be focused or focus their energy. What is going to happen there? Yeah, not only Chicago, but a lot of these kids in these schools rely on the school's program for nutrition, for their food, for their meals as well.

So it's just a complete disaster. And we even have the big guy, Joe Biden talking about, he's singing a similar tune. this. We have no reason to think at this point that Omicron is worse for children than previous variants. We know that our kids can be safe when in school, by the way. That's why I believe schools should remain open. You know, they have what they need because of the American Rescue Plan with the first month we were in office or second month that I signed in March. We provided the states with 130 billion, with a B, billion. billion dollars to specifically keeps our students safe and schools open.

It's so annoying because honestly, you idiots cause this problem. It's like watching Frankstein complain that, you know, Dr. Frankenstein, that his creation, this monster he built is, you know, wreaking havoc. They created the fear. They built this thing. They made everybody feel like they can't go out. They shut down the schools. They scared the teachers.

They filled the television with baloney and increased this. 0.27% death risk into something that's going to kill us all. And now it's backfiring on them and they recognize it. You know, as we look at all this, you know, breaking down, when we see how mild Omicron is, it really reminded me of, you know, what I said in the beginning of this. In the very beginning, my biggest concern and our biggest concern, as we talked about this, is we got to set standards here. We were talking about it. At that moment, we didn't know what the death rate of COVID was, but we were saying we've got to say what line, what level, you know, what is the number, the percentage risk to a disease that warrants shutting down schools, destroying kids' lives,

destroying economy, shutting down restaurants. If we don't come up to that line, we're going to be forever locked down. In fact, here, I guess we have it. Here's me all the way back, and I believe it's March of 2020, nearly two years ago, expressing what I thought would be the biggest concern if we didn't set a standard in the middle of all this. Here it is. Number one, in the United States of America where I live, and every one of you that is watching this around the world,

should ask this of your own government officials and your state officials. But what we need to ask is, what is the death rate that warrants quarantining a population and stopping them from be able to work and go on with ordinary life? We have never done it before for the flu, which is said to have a death rate of the people, of about 0.13%.

And then question number two, once we know what that rate is, and we know what that number is, if once our testing does come online and the models start to show us all around the world and our own testing of all the people showing the mild cases and the asymptomatic cases, and we watch this death rate dropping down

as we know it naturally will, once it drops below that threshold, that our governments have set, will we remove this quarantine and say, false alarm everybody, sorry. We took obvious precautions which were necessary, but now that we've recognized that this death rate is well below a threshold that we have set,

we are going back to our normal lives. Because if we don't know what this number is, we're on the verge of being in perpetual quarantine from here forward. I mean, that's our concern, right? I kept demanding, will someone at the press corps ask, you know, Tony Fauci, what is the acceptable death rate and what's not acceptable? We know for a fact that the flu death rate tends to be on average around 0.13 of those that are infected.

I said it then at 0.13%. We've been saying from the beginning, multiple studies, including the very last one, just a few months ago by Johnny Eniddy's looking at the death rates all across the world, you know, that came up with. death rate is still right about thinking that there's 0.27%. It's been holding strong this entire time for two years. The entire death rate, including all the elderly and the young, and let's bring up the tweet that came out of this study or the information that came out of this study, because we know that's everybody. But look at the age 0 to 19. It's now going to be forced or asked to get a third

booster shot. Their death rate is 0.027%. It's only the elderly all the way up there over the age of 70 with other comorbidities that are pushing us to the 0.27%. And here's my point, as you laid out all this information, Jeffrey, Amacron, as you've now shown by that study, is at least half as deadly, if not 70 or 80% based on the numbers in the age groups you're looking at. So we now know if Delta was in all these other previous, more deadly versions of the variants were at 0.27%. We are literally now dropped below the flu number of 0.13%.

I'm guessing if we did the math, we would find that the Amacron that is now the dominant strain around the world is somewhere in the 0.1, maybe even 0.09% for all of the most in danger for everybody on this planet. Yet we are shutting down schools again. We are watching New York shut down restaurants destroy businesses, California, and this was the problem. By not setting a standard, we are now going to be masking everywhere we go for what would have been literally called the common cold two years ago. go. It is clear to me. Amacron has about the death rate of the common cold, less than the flu, when we never mask for those things. We never said you can't get on a plane. We never, you know,

shut you down. We never kept you from traveling. Never shut down your businesses. This is, this is the insanity. Then we've got to point it out. I know we're going to work really hard this year to continue to beat this drum. We need standard set. We need these people to admit what is an acceptable death rate and what is not because these are just numbers. It's really easy to figure out the math now. We're so far along in this. We know the truth. We all know the truth. Anybody with a brain can read the truth. Now we've got to start waking people out of this coma and this mass delusion. Yeah, well said, Dahl. I mean, and remember for the kids, this is, it was kind of not a big deal for the kids. And those were the cook numbers we were going on.

Those were the numbers that Fauci was saying, well, whoopsie, those are kind of cooked. They're not really that bad. So I remember when you had that conversation and hearing those words again that you just replayed from so long ago, it really is such a juxtaposition compared to where we're at right now as we're fighting to keep these schools open. It's sad, it's surreal, and it's got to be reversed. And hopefully we can do our part to do that here.