Juno News - March 22, 2021


It's unethical to ignore the harms of lockdowns on kids


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00:00:00.000 it's one thing to downplay and ignore the harms of lockdowns when it comes to older populations
00:00:10.960 and the general public it's another thing to ignore and downplay them when you're talking
00:00:15.640 about the harms of lockdowns for children and youth i would go so far as to say it is extremely
00:00:20.880 unethical look in high risk persons older categories obviously they are at high risk of
00:00:26.660 the virus so one talks about the trade-off of the lockdown measures versus them getting the virus
00:00:31.600 and getting seriously ill from it children we know they are just generally not at high risk of having
00:00:36.620 serious outcomes from the virus that's not me talking that's top pediatricians across this
00:00:41.060 country i've spoken to them i've interviewed them they've signed open letters sick kids hospital
00:00:45.420 saying similar things basically and doctors have said this exact line is that influenza is more
00:00:50.920 serious in children than coronaviruses they have learned and i've just seen two new pieces of
00:00:56.980 evidence at least two new pieces to me that have just brought home the point of how we really need
00:01:03.060 to talk about the harms of lockdowns on children more one of them is an academic paper that i'm only
00:01:07.860 just seeing right now it's from june 2020 i just read it uh the other week and i'm surprised it hasn't
00:01:12.860 gotten more coverage but i've seen various medical professionals have actually been tweeting about it
00:01:17.380 talking about it which which talks about the long-term damage to the normal development of the
00:01:22.620 ears from wearing masks for many hours per day really interesting stuff why aren't parents talking
00:01:29.080 about that more why aren't public health officials acknowledging that more the other one i saw a viral
00:01:34.280 immunologist in canada at the university of guelph who studies studies the coronavirus on a viral level
00:01:40.020 he has said he's not the first one to say this a number of other officials and experts have said this
00:01:44.640 that keeping children under lockdown so much in quarantine uh not letting them just interact with
00:01:50.740 their natural environment as much as they would normally be doing is actually going to stand a
00:01:55.480 risk of harming their immune system develop allergies asthma and even autoimmune diseases later in life
00:02:01.200 because they're not having a natural exposure to to the microbiome atmosphere out there lots of
00:02:07.360 technical details in there but that's the general gist of it and you listen to all these things and these
00:02:11.920 are just two two new things there's various other things going on with kids sick kids hospitals saying
00:02:16.900 uh they've never seen as many uh admissions for eating disorders as they have now i make master
00:02:22.720 children's hospital talking about a tripling in the number of young people uh showing up for for suicide
00:02:27.820 attempts serious uh mental health issues and so forth i mean every week you're looking around and you're
00:02:33.580 finding new evidence that talks about the harms of what we're doing right now to our children and as i said
00:02:39.540 the fact that we're not talking about this more the fact that politicians public health officials
00:02:45.400 don't get me started on teachers unions that this is not being uh unpacked more discussed more debated
00:02:51.820 more it gets to a point where again it's not just about balancing things and that they're off in the
00:02:56.920 balance it's unethical it's immoral to ignore the harms that are being done to our children to the
00:03:03.680 degree that we are ignoring them as a society
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