Dr. Phil Schools The View Ladies On How Covid Lockdowns Harmed School Kids

Dr. Phil McGraw is one of the more level-headed voices on television. He's loyal to no one political party. He's independent. He prioritizes common sense and data.

Such an analytical worldview led McGraw to an increased interest in American politics during the Covid pandemic in 2020. He ended his eponymous daytime show, "Dr. Phil," last year to form a forthcoming cable network on which he can further analyze those social issues. 

McGraw appeared on "The View" Monday, where he turned the hosts incredulous over his criticism of locking down school kids.

He claimed the mental health crisis initially worsened in 2008 following the advent of smartphones, when kids "stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives." 

McGraw continued:

"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 ladies on "The View" disagreed.

"There was also a pandemic going on, and they were trying to save their lives," said Sunny Hostin.

"Not school children," McGraw countered. 

"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 shot back.

"Are you saying no school children died of Covid?" Ana Navarro interjected.

And that's where Dr. Phil made the most undeniable point on the desk:

"I’m saying it was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group, and 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."

That is, indeed, a fact. 

The response to Covid – the lockdowns, forced isolation, and social distancing – caused more harm to young Americans than the virus itself.

The symptoms of Covid, as they pertained to the youth, were, in aggregate, mild.

Effects such as suicide, depression, and decreased academic and social development – all of which Covid mismanagement caused – are much longer lasting. 

Here is official data from the CDC regarding rates of Covid deaths since Jan. 2020, by age demographic:

Dr. Phil is right, the numbers confirm.

Note: CDC calculated those deaths by counting the Americans who died with Covid; not from Covid.

The hosts of "The View" are not informed on how Covid harmed school kids and how little danger the virus presented them. Sure, you can dismiss that as just another dumb statement from the ladies on The View.

We don't.

Their stance on Covid is not isolated to a couple of dimwits working for ABC "News." The belief of which Hostin and Goldberg argued in favor represents half the country's defense of lockdowns.

And it is that exact misunderstanding of the pandemic and defense of tyranny that equates to us being susceptible to such ugly authoritarianism again.

The only way to prevent the government from ever locking us down again is by resistance – by resisting our leaders as a collective whole. Yet those who subscribe to the same fallacies as "The View" will not resist.

We don't often tell readers to whom to listen or believe. But if the options are either Dr. Phill or "The View," choose the former without hesitation.