This is about empathy. This is about understanding. We're going to lay out some information here and just keep that in mind, you know, we are on the other side of this pandemic and we do have challenges.

And this is where we're going to go. But before we get into the most recent data, we continually have to caveat this data with appropriately the great parenting declaration ahead of their time. October 2020.

These epidemiologists three well-sighted epidemiologists saw the way the lockdowns were going saw what they were going to do and knew the data that was going to come from this and they penned this warning, the declaration that's been signed upon by tens of thousands of doctors now.

And this is what they wrote. This was in the declaration at that time before we knew all of this.

They said as infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies as across the population.

But then they went even further. They said current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden.

They went so far to say keeping students out of schools of grave injustice. Unfortunately, their warnings were not heated. So this is what the headlines look like before we get in really deep into this segment.

Just again, just to frame this in case anybody forgot in 2020. These are the headlines.

Forty-eight states have ordered or recommended that schools don't reopen this academic year. And Florida and Texas were on this. So don't think that these kind of luminary states that we look at as Liberty Beacons now back then, they were in lockstep with some of this stuff.

Oh, look, Jeffrey, we were in the middle of it right here. We had defected five families, defected from the Waldorf private school we were at.

And you know, just thinking about the Waldorf curriculum and Rudolph Steiner, who made some of the earliest statements about the future dangers of vaccinations and to think that that school was masking and going pro vaccine.

But even here in Texas, we defected with a bunch of families and started our own homeschool co-op just to make our way through that lockdown on our children.

So though I'm very, very lucky and I want to give a shout out to my wife who worked so hard while I was on the show, making sure that that school and bringing the teachers and make that happen were possible.

But it was people that sort of went that extra step that kept their kids from having to go through, you know, this real torture. But so many, I know just didn't have the time.

We're, we're not able to really put that focus trying to just make ends meet. So so many fell through the cracks all across this country and even here in Liberty Beacons like Texas, you're absolutely right.

Right. And, and let's be clear and honest, they were scary times. But looking at this data we're presenting right now, there were outlets and individuals that amplified and leveraged that fear for specific policies that did cause harm.

And the new were going to cause harm. So let's look at the Atlantic magazine. This was in August, on August 2nd, 2020 going into the fall school year schools were, you know, deciding we're going to open or not.

This is a headline. This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail. I mean clear fear mongering from who this is in the quotes. This push to open schools is guaranteed to fail says Peter Hotez, a politician and molecular orologist.

He says in communities with high transmission, it's inevitable that COVID-19 will enter the schools within two weeks of opening schools and communities with high virus transmission teachers will become ill.

All it will take is for a single teacher to become hospitalized with COVID and everything will shut down. He goes on to say we don't need additional information to make decisions.

Hotez insisted right now, he said there are at least 40 station which schools simply should not open. Remember schools are not hermetically sealed. We need to reach containment first is that simple. Well, that's not wrong as we know now.

No Peter, stop that simple. Yeah, well done. Destroyed our children's lives and did nothing to stop the pandemic, the transmission or anything else. Fail.

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