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The Erick Erickson Show

S11 EP121: Hour 3 - School Closures Hurt

The Erick Erickson Show

Erick Erickson

News, News Commentary

4.5874 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We finally have statistically significant data on COVID and school closures. Children who were in schools that closed down for an extended period of time are far behind their peers. This primarily happened in blue states. Here's what happens next.

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0:00.0

I'm here, but I'm trying not to choke on a peanut in a snicker bar.

0:07.1

Because y'all don't want me angry because I'm telling you, I get hangary.

0:13.0

When I travel, my assistant has to put on the calendar reminders to eat.

0:18.9

Because when I travel and I get busy, I'll just forget to eat.

0:21.4

It's a great weight loss program. I just forget to eat. And then I become a raging SOB. I mean, I just get mean. And I'm not a mean person. I'm a fairly laid back, even-heeled person. I get it honest though. My dad was the same way. But it's laid-back personal planet Earth. but when he gets hungry, he just has a ferocious temper.

0:21.3

And I do too. way, most laid back personal planet Earth. But when he gets hungry, he just has a ferocious

0:38.4

temper. And I do too. And I can feel like I need to just get a snicker bar in me so I didn't get

0:44.5

hungry. You know, my son gets, we call it sagri at our house. He gets deeply despondently sad when he's

0:52.6

hungry, like really hungry. He like really gets sad me i mean

0:57.9

i'm just a jerk i i i really i get snappy and and people don't like to be around me when i'm hungry

1:03.9

so i was inhaling a sticker bar during commercial break try not to choke on the peanuts so that i

1:09.3

can make it through this next hour, because

1:11.8

then I have to go to a meeting and then another meeting, and then I get to go a Braves game,

1:15.6

which I'll eat something at the stadium, might get a cigar before, definitely get a cigar

1:20.4

after, but it's going to be a long night.

1:23.0

It was a long night yesterday, too.

1:25.1

Now, I need to move on. This is infuriating. And it's one of those

1:36.8

stories. Okay, so let me go back. If you were just tuning in, it is Eric Erickson,

1:40.9

the phone number 877973-725.

1:52.2

At the very end of the last hour, I was talking about the mask mandates in California.

2:08.0

There's really not any scientific dispute that if everybody wears a mask, everybody at all times wears a mask, it diminishes transmission of viruses, including COVID.

2:11.5

The problem is, as we learned in this country, not everybody's going to do it.

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