From the Abraham Lincoln radio studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

So I was happy to see Tucker Carlson made this a part of his show last night and it's getting some traction today.

It has been for kids mental health. The schools being closed all this time and this is a story that should be getting more attention than it even is.

Just unbelievable explosions of anxiety, depression, suicidal tendencies, drug and alcohol abuse.

All the bad things you try to keep away from your kids. Just an explosion of that year to year in the latest statistics that have come out.

And at the risk of putting the conclusion at the beginning of the segment, the idea that Texas should make moves toward opening up and the cry goes up from the blue states from the mainstream media.

Oh, it's dangerous. This could be dangerous. Something bad might happen. Something truly unthinkably bad is happening right now is happening. It's happening near you. And it's because the schools are closed.

Sorry, which of these Tucker clips includes all that information, Hansen. I don't know that.

Okay, let's know about. He goes through this and it's just astounding.

I don't know what was happening, but a new analysis by Fair Health shows just how destructive the lockdowns have been worse than you thought.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on mental health, particularly that of young people. School closures having to learn remotely and isolating from friends due to social distancing have been sources of stress and loneliness.

Well, that's bad. How bad is it? Here's how bad it is. Among children aged 13 to 18 teenagers, insurance claims for intentional self-harm were up 90% in March of 2020 compared to the previous year.

The next month in April, self-harm cases rose by nearly 100%. Claims from medical help related to drug overdoses went up 95% in March and then to 113% in April.

And those numbers remain to elevated through the fall. Why? Why was this happening? Mental illness caused by coronavirus lockdowns.

For the age group 13 to 18 in April 2020, insurance claims for generalized anxiety disorder increased 93.6% as a percentage of all medical claims. In April of 2019, major depressive disorder claims increased 83.9% in adjustment disorder claims by 89.7%.

And quote, thanks to the coronavirus lockdowns, children are 10 times more likely to die from suicide than from the coronavirus they're meant to be protected from. So that is the new normal that Andrew Cuomo and the New York Times are working to make permanent in this country.

A friend of mine who has several kids struggling with mental health right now because of the closed downs in the pandemic and all that sort of stuff told me the other day his biggest expense right now is therapy for the kids.

This the statistics came from this fair health that's a group a nonprofit that clicks data for privately build health insurance claims.

So they can come into this with the agenda of finding this out they just collect all this data and it's it's extensive 32 billion records that they look at.

Of all kinds of different things studying kids various ages and you if you understand statistics and those maybe all do but you know something that increases 90% or whatever that's practically doubling right practically doubling year to year anxiety you know suicide attempts drug use all this stuff just incredible.

And it is practically impossible for that to happen if you look back at the history of just the United States youth in the United States the idea that year to year suicide would double that's unthinkable and this is just the greatest example I've ever experienced of fixation and the dangers of fixation we've talked about this a lot.

The people who still want the schools closed have been urging them to stay closed you know the usual suspects we've been talking about are some of them are are awful people some of the teachers unions it's just extortion for money but a lot of the well-maning people have just become so fixated on the covid they have become blind it's it's like a severe case of myopia they've been blinded to all of these other things that affect their children our children my children and it's it's a results are devastating.

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