During his appearance on The View on Monday, Dr. Phil McGraw took co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg to task over their defense of state government’s decisions to close schools and prevent children from attending in-person classes during the Covid-19 pandemic.
McGraw pushed back on the claim that keeping kids isolated from others, and by extension the virus, was in their best interest, arguing that very few people under 18 had any real risk of suffering if they were to have caught the virus. Children were revealed to not be vectors for the virus and to not be particularly susceptible to it.
McGraw pointed out that there had been a spike in cases of anxiety and depression among teenagers in 2008 when smart phones became popular, and that that trend continued for the next decade.
“Then Covid hits ten years later, and the same agencies that knew that are the same agencies that shut down the schools…
