The Aftermath Part 1: Kids, Schools, and the Crime Surge

Honestly with Bari Weiss

The Free Press

Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

As we approach the third year of this pandemic, it’s become painfully clear that the stringent measures we took to mitigate against the virus had all kinds of unintended consequences. For mental health. For the economy. For our cities. And, especially, for our kids. Today, award-winning investigative journalist Alec MacGillis helps us understand the morally urgent costs of school shutdowns on our youngest generations, and how pandemic policies contributed to the crime surge plaguing so many American cities. MacGillis reported on these hidden costs with rigor, diligence and empathy well before the rest of the country caught up and said: hold on, these costs may be too high. (You can read many of those stories here.) Today’s episode is part one of my conversation with MacGillis. Stay tuned for part two, where we’ll talk about his recent book about Amazon, Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, and how Big Tech and progressive policies are accelerating the inequalities that were already running rampant in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.4	I'm Barry Weiss and this is honestly.
0:34.0	Good evening and thanks for joining us.
0:37.0	The World Health Organization has now confirmed what many epidemiologists have been saying for weeks.
0:42.0	The coronavirus is a pandemic.
0:45.0	As we prepare to enter year three of this pandemic, I've been thinking about all of the measures this country
0:53.9	has undertaken to avoid the worst outcomes of the virus.
0:57.0	There are 30 states across the country this morning seeing spikes in COVID-19
1:01.3	hospitalizations.
1:03.0	More than 620 schools have closed or are scheduled to close,
1:07.7	affecting more than 430,000 students.
1:10.8	And taking a sober look at all of their unintended consequences.
1:14.0	Well, school closures due to the coronavirus means millions of parents are now supervising their children's education from home.
1:21.0	I can't think of an area where that is more significant
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