Rep. Andy Biggs Says Follow the Science, Open Schools

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🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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It’s past time to open schools, Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., says.

“The percentages for teachers or students is really, really low,” Biggs says of the risk of contracting COVID-19. “In Florida, they’re playing sports.”

“The flip side of it, of course, is this isolation, this online learning, this basic lockdown for these kids is producing greater suicide rates, higher depression rates,” Biggs says. “And something like half of all the adolescents and young adults have experienced some suicidal ideation that they had never had before. That’s a result of these school lockdowns, which don’t follow the science and they don’t make sense.”

The third-term congressman from Arizona joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss reopening during the pandemic, as well as to weigh in on the crisis at the southern border.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, March 11th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	And I'm Rachel Del Judiz. Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona says that half of all the adolescents
0:16.0	and young adults have experienced some suicidal ideation that they never had before due to
0:22.0	schools being closed for a year because of coronavirus. Congressman Biggs joins me today during
0:27.3	a conversation we had at the Conservative Political Action Conference to discuss the impact of
0:32.8	indefinite school closures on students. We also touch on the crisis at the Southern border
0:38.4	and Democrats $1.9 trillion coronavirus bill. Don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast,
0:45.0	please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple podcasts and encourage others to
0:50.0	subscribe now on to our top news. The situation at the US-Mexico border is not a crisis,
1:03.2	but a full-blown disaster, according to Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick.
1:08.8	Governor Patrick joined Fox News on Wednesday to explain that 500 new national guard troops
1:15.2	are being sent to the border to help with the influx of immigrants.
1:18.8	The Texas Governor said that anywhere between 1,000 and 4,000 migrants are entering into America every
1:26.4	day across our Southern border. Let's take a listen to what Governor Patrick had to say in regard
1:31.6	to the Biden administration's handling of the situation at the border, per Fox News.
1:36.4	Bill, I've been working on the border in Dana for nearly 16 years. A lot of trips have been all over
1:41.1	the border. Day patrols, night patrols, you name it. This is the worst I've seen. We've had some
1:46.2	higher peaks at times. This is the worst of what really makes it bad is that there's no end in sight.
1:52.1	There's no end in sight to these people who are coming over the border. We're talking about
1:56.1	millions of people who are being victimized by the Biden administration. And by the way,
2:02.1	their border patrol agents have not, to my knowledge, been vaccinated. We're vaccinating our people
2:06.8	down there. And so they're susceptible. Their own government employees are susceptible to getting
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