In this episode, Dr. Mark McDonald talks about the impact of lockdowns and other measures taken in response to the coronavirus pandemic on children's mental health. Dr. McDonald has been an outspoken critic of these measures, and has written a book about them, United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis. He is a psychiatrist from Los Angeles and has a specialty in child and adolescent treatment. He has a book out called, How to Survive a Mass Deprivation of Mental Health: A Guide to Mental Health in the 21st Century, which is available for pre-order now. Dr. McAllister is also the author of the book, United States Of Fear: The New Normal: The Truth About America s Collapse in the Age of Pandemic Pandemic Polio, which is out now and will be available for purchase on Amazon Prime and Vimeo on November 1st, 2019. If you don't already have a Kindle device, you can download a free eReader app from Amazon so you can read the book on your Kindle, iBook, Paperback, Hardcover, or paperback, and save it to your hard drive. Kindle $9.99, or buy it for 99 cents at amazon.co.uk for a limited time only $99.99. Kindle $99, paperback 4999, and hardcover 4999 for 99.99 for 4999.00, and Audible Free, or Audible 4999 Free, Free Audible 3999, 3999 Audible 4499, RRP 49994999, Caff and RRP 4899. All three of these products are also available for trial on Audible $99 .99 or best of all three formats. . Kindle Freebie Freebie Code: Kindle $29.99 & Audible 4799 Freebie $49.99 or 2799 RRP Freebie 4RRP $49, and 2799, GIVE 4 RRP $29,99, Best Fiarelli Freebie Subscribe to Kindle $5,99 & RRP 4RP $19,99 Freebie=3RRP 4Sell a copy of my book, and get an Audible 4S4RRP 5RRP 4949RRP and get a discount on my book 4S5RRP for 4S3,99 or RRP 5S4 FREEbie 4SOTR4 I hope you like it!
00:00:00.000I want to welcome to the podcast today Dr.
00:00:02.000Mark McDonald, who is a psychiatrist from Los Angeles.
00:00:06.000He has a specialty in child and adolescent treatment, and he has been an outspoken critic of the impacts of lockdowns and masking and other countermeasures on the happiness and mental health of America's children.
00:00:23.000He has a book out called United States of Fear, How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusional Psychosis.
00:00:37.000So, I really wanted you on here because I had heard one of the talks that you gave about the impacts of the lockdowns on children and on mental health of children.
00:00:52.000And I had, from the beginning of the pandemic, I had tried to find out answers from the public health authorities about what the cause of the pandemic are.
00:01:03.000We were told what the benefits would be, that it would stop coronavirus, which it did not do.
00:01:11.000You didn't see the cost debated on CNN or Fox News.
00:01:16.000There were no experts on economists, psychiatrists, doctors who were talking about deferment of medical treatment or any of these really important questions were the lockdowns.
00:01:29.000We're going to avert more problems than they would cause, more costs than they would impose on us.
00:01:35.000And I think nowadays people are coming to the realization that they were a grave and catastrophic mistake for our citizens and particularly our children.
00:01:47.000I'm seeing the effects of these government lockdowns, shutdowns, closures, social distancing measures, quarantining, masking, shutting down schools, just now coming to fruition.
00:02:01.000My concerns now are actually worse than they were a year and a half ago when I just saw it as a temporary disaster.
00:02:08.000We're now seeing this as an ongoing problem that's probably likely, in my view as a clinician, to continue for years, if not generations.
00:02:16.000There's a difference between scratching your skin and getting a sunburn and then having it recover after a week versus a constant, slow burning and scratching that causes a complete change of the cell structure That then leads to cancer in three years, five years, ten years.
00:02:34.000We've already seen children of all ages losing the capacity to speak, to articulate because of this chronic masking.
00:02:45.000We're already seeing the loss of cognitive function, meaning brain development.
00:02:51.000Due to a lockdown and shutdown that has persisted now for over two years of children living in isolation without going to school, it's gotten so bad that the CDC just a week or two ago announced that they were going to lower the bar For what's considered acceptable child development by two years.
00:03:10.000So now if you're two years behind, you're normal.
00:03:14.000So rather than admit that they've caused a complete collapse of the development of children's brains, they're just redefining what a normal brain is.
00:03:23.000These are just a few examples of what I've seen in the last two years, and they're going to get worse.
00:03:28.000So the CDC has adjusted its official milestones so that it used to be for the last 30 years.
00:03:36.000The milestones have said a child should walk at 12 months.
00:04:02.000And the question is, you know, you're a psychiatrist.
00:04:05.000Why are not pediatricians in revolt right now?
00:04:09.000They're the ones who take these measurements.
00:04:11.000Well, now you can't send, as a parent, you can't send your child to school and if your child falls down and hurts his knee, you cannot allow the school nurse to give your child an ibuprofen, Tylenol, Aspirin, without a written signature saying that you agree.
00:04:28.000To allow your child to be treated with Tylenol and aspirin.
00:04:31.000But your child can get testosterone injection prescriptions perfectly fine without even you knowing about it.
00:04:38.000Your child's name can be changed if your child wishes to without you being told and your teachers are required to use a different name.
00:04:45.000So My view, in summary, is that pediatrics, pediatricians, the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as other medical organizations like the AMA, like the American Psychological Association, the American Academy of Psychiatry, they are completely corrupt.
00:05:02.000They are not beholden to the needs of their practitioners anymore.
00:05:06.000They're beholden to interest groups, political, union, pharmacy interest groups.
00:05:14.000So I think that is the reason why largely there has not been an outcry at this obvious example of covering your tracks and covering the evidence of having harmed children by the CDC and other government agencies.
00:05:26.000The Brown University study Show that there is a 22-point loss in IQ among the youngest children during the two-year pandemic.
00:05:41.000I didn't even know that, you know, infants could take an IQ test.
00:05:45.000Well, Brown University Department of Pediatrics published that study in fall of last year, and then they did a follow-up one with a larger number of kids up to age five, and they expanded it beyond just IQ point loss.
00:05:58.000They expanded it to cognitive functioning, and they found the IQ point loss that you mentioned in infants, zero to 18 months, Using some, I would call them more surrogate markers of IQ testing that you would see in adults.
00:06:09.000I actually don't know what the exact tests are that they use for that young of an age.
00:06:13.000It's a very specialized field, but they did use validity measurements to ensure that the results that they had were honest and truthful.
00:06:24.000There are some evaluations you can use for young kids, putting together paper clips, grabbing and putting blocks in different areas.
00:06:32.000And there is a correlation between the performance on those tests and how the IQ develops at later years as the kids get older and they can do written tests and more sophisticated exams.
00:06:42.000They found an IQ point loss in infants up to 18 months.
00:06:45.000Then they went up to age five and they said, well, let's just test not just IQ, but overall cognitive functioning.
00:06:50.000And they found, I believe it was a 24% decline in overall cognitive functioning in the zero to five age group after a year, year and a half of these lockdowns.
00:07:02.000That means that children's brains are actually being damaged By keeping them deprived, unable to be at school, unable to leave their homes, covered with masks, unable to see or hear words and articulate, we are causing brain damage to our children.
00:07:17.000So it's not just my opinion, my anecdotal evidence.
00:07:20.000They actually studied and reported this at Brown University and found that the students, the kids that they studied, were actually showing brain damage after close to two years of sensory deprivation.
00:07:33.000I mean, do they need to see other people speak?
00:07:36.000And also, there are nonverbal forms of communication, like facial expressions, that clearly a child has learned by observing his or her peers, the parents, etc.
00:07:48.000What happens when you put a mask on children?
00:07:51.000Well, when you have infants that are born in over 12, 18, 24 months, they really don't see any faces at all.
00:07:57.000All that they can come up with is really seeing eyes.
00:08:01.000So when children, babies, are looking at their mother's faces intensely, they generally look at facial expressions and they hear exaggerated tones.
00:08:10.000The sing-song wilt of a mother's speech is the way that Mothers biologically, intrinsically teach language and sounds to their children.
00:08:22.000When they can't see the mouth move, they can't see the rest of the face, all they see is the eyes.
00:08:26.000They may not be able to hear very well because the mask is muffling the sounds.
00:08:30.000You're limiting the very early stages of speech acquisition.
00:08:34.000Now, as you get older, you start to see more, you know, peer-to-peer, other kids, you know, co-play, parallel play.
00:08:41.000That's not happening because they're not actually spending time with other kids.
00:08:44.000And if they are, all the kids are masked.
00:08:46.000If you're a school age, all you see are masked children if you're a child, a masked teacher if you're a child in the classroom, masked administrators.
00:08:55.000Everybody basically has been masked from the child's point of view from a very, very early age for two or three years.
00:09:01.000So that period of time where you learn how to recognize sounds, recognize facial expressions and correlate them to sounds, and then later how you're able to observe more sophisticated verbal, nonverbal cues through the face and the ears is completely wrecked when you're covering the mouth And you're muffling sounds like this.
00:09:24.000So the children don't even hear the articulations of the words anymore, nor are they able to articulate themselves.
00:09:31.000There is a beautiful video that came out about a month ago where a bunch of young kids were filmed in class responding to the announcement of the teacher.
00:09:53.000He couldn't place his tongue behind his teeth.
00:09:56.000He couldn't articulate anymore because he had stopped doing it because he didn't need to because he had his mouth covered with a mask the whole time.
00:10:04.000Speech and language therapy referrals are up 25% to 300%.
00:10:08.000Compared to 2019, depending on the area of the country.
00:10:27.000I have so many children in my practice who are unable to spend time with their friends in sleepovers because they can't separate from their mothers.
00:10:35.000I have children who have punched through plate glass windows with their fists at age eight out of frustration because they can't go outside.
00:10:42.000I have autistic children who are completely fine psychologically.
00:10:45.000They have autism, but it doesn't mean that they're mentally ill.
00:10:49.000And these autistic children, by and large, have suffered the most.
00:10:52.000One of them was actually placed at age 12 in an inpatient psychiatric facility for the first time in her life because she could not go to school.
00:11:08.000She had a nervous breakdown and she was locked up, which of course made things worse because now she's cut off from her family, the only source of support that she had for two years.
00:12:20.000For broad-scale social deterioration that actually improved during the COVID crisis was child abuse.
00:12:29.000Child abuse dropped precipitously, but not because it actually dropped, but because as an artifact of the fact that most child abuse is reported by the schools.
00:12:44.000And it wasn't being reported, and we were locking these children in many cases Just in the same way that during the last two years, heart attacks, cancer, gastrointestinal disorders, all of those suddenly disappeared.
00:13:02.000Well, when you see something decline that precipitously, which has been constant and steady for years and years, you have to ask yourself the question, did it really disappear or did we just stop looking for it?
00:13:14.000Of course now, now that all the doors are open, people are back, you're starting to see all these medical problems now go through the roof.
00:13:20.000Hospitals are overwhelmed, not with patients with coronavirus.
00:13:23.000They're overwhelmed with patients who are dying of cancer, patients who are suffering from Weak hearts because they've had undiagnosed and untreated heart attacks and coronary artery blockages.
00:13:34.000I suspect that the same thing is going to start happening now with children.
00:13:39.000As we start to get an accounting of the devastation, we're going to start to see more and more evidence and reports of lingering chronic trauma injuries, ongoing abuse of children, just like we're now seeing with the speech problems.
00:13:54.000Like we're seeing with the drug problems, like we're seeing with the lack of socialization in children, anxiety and depressive disorders.
00:14:02.000All these problems that we just ignored and made worse are now coming back and rebounding much, much worse than they were before 2020.
00:14:11.000McDonough, what are the chances that any of the psychiatric associations will actually come forward and make themselves heard about this issue?
00:14:22.000Are there any that are actually advocates for children or have they all been kind of subsumed into the orthodoxy and bribed by pharmaceutical companies?
00:14:34.000I'm writing a book right now that's not called United States of Fear, but Freedom from Fear.
00:14:39.000In other words, let's move forward and try to get beyond the paralysis of fear that we have been in for the last two years.
00:14:47.000And I'm modeling it after the 12-step program of AA and Jordan B. Peterson's 12 Rules for Life.
00:14:53.000And the first step, the very first step, as we all know, who are Even people who don't have substance abuse problems, we all know someone who has.
00:15:01.000The first step is to acknowledge that you have a problem.
00:15:04.000And another step further down the road is to actually acknowledge not just the problem that you have, but the problem that you've caused others, the injuries, as well as to yourself and to make amends.
00:15:16.000I do not see any evidence, none, that anyone in positions of power and authority are actually making amends and acknowledging the problem.
00:15:25.000I've seen a pivot directly from coronavirus scare to now Russia, Ukraine.
00:15:32.000We've flopped out one crisis for another.
00:15:35.000One thing that we need to focus on and be obsessed about, to the exclusion of everything else, From last year to this year.
00:15:42.000And what that means to me is that the people who caused these problems, the people who harmed our children, the people who continue to harm us in other ways, they are not going to actually acknowledge what they did and seek some form of contrition and some form of not just recovery, but actually planning for how to not make the same Error or intentional mistake again.
00:16:09.000If we don't acknowledge what we've done, there's no way for us to not repeat the mistakes in the future.
00:16:19.000It's actually holding people accountable.
00:16:21.000And I want to see these associations, like the Pediatric Association, like the AMA, Certainly the CDC, FDA, all of them start to step forward and say, we really made a mistake here.
00:16:34.000Here's what we're going to do differently in the future.
00:16:36.000I see no evidence of that happening whatsoever, which leads me to think that if this is going to happen, if there's going to be reform, it's not going to come from the top down from the organizations and then dripping down like water in a waterfall.
00:16:48.000It's going to come from the bottom up.
00:16:51.000It's going to come from mothers, fathers, parents speaking up and demanding That these people and these organizations admit their failings, and if they don't, to eliminate them and to start over with a fresh organization and a fresh set of people that can actually be trusted that have ethics.