The View Hosts Get Schooled by Dr. Phil on Pandemic School Closures - And Their Audience Sides With Him

The View’s own audience sided with Dr. Phil when the topic of pandemic-era school closures came up - a policy so disastrous that even the teachers unions who backed them are now trying to pretend they opposed them. 

Dr Phil explained: 

And so we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality since records have ever been kept. And it’s just continued on and on and on, and then Covid hits 10 years later, and the same agencies that knew that are the agencies that shut down the schools for two years. Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down?

And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch and referrals dropped 50 to 60%.

The clueless hosts then attempted damage control. 

“There was also a pandemic going on and they were trying to save their lives,” Sunny Hostin, a multimillionaire who demands reparations, replied, with famed statistician Whoopi Goldberg agreeing.  

“You know what? We’re lucky. Maybe we’re lucky they didn’t, because they kept them out of the places that they could be safe because no one wanted to believe we had an issue,” Goldberg added.

Ana Navarro then pulled a Cathy Newman and asked, “Are you saying no school children died of Covid?” to which Dr. Phil actually had to explain to her that he was saying they were the least safest group, and that “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.”

And at that point, The View’s audience cheered for Dr. Phil.

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Goldberg’s argument that the reason few children didn’t die of COVID being due to school closures is nonsense because the *rate* of death of those who got it was microscopic too. 

But the overall statistics are that were 73.4 million children age 0-17 in the U.S. in 2020, and 1,696 deaths that year in that age group according to the CDC, for a death rate of 0.0023%, or about 1 in 43,300. Even if school closures prevented half of COVID deaths in that age group (of which the evidence is non-existent), the chance of death would still be extremely low. 

For reference, The lifetime risk of death from a car crash is 1 in 93, 1 in 1006 for downing, 1 in 7,944 for an accidental gun discharge, and 1 in 20,098 for dying in a storm. And these are the lifetime risks, meaning the odds of death from them in a single year are overwhelmingly lower.   

It’s also worth mentioning that deaths *with* COVID were generally counted as deaths *from* COVID in the data, meaning that the 1,696 death figure is the maximum number of COVID deaths that occurred that year, but the real number was undoubtedly lower. 

Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros

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