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