Breaking the News by Alex Marlow

Author:Alex Marlow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Threshold Editions
Published: 2021-05-18T00:00:00+00:00

It will probably take years to determine exactly how much health and psychological damage was done by the reaction to the coronavirus pandemic. I, for one, dread what we will learn.

Divorces spiked (up 34 percent from March through June 2020, year over year), separations spiked, even domestic violence got much worse (over 61 percent of women living with their abusers in the United Kingdom reported worsening abuse during lockdown, according to advocacy group Women’s Aid) during the pandemic.113 At least one Massachusetts hospital found “a significant year-over-year jump in intimate partner violence cases who sought emergency care.” Abuse hotlines rang off the hook. Yet all of this was rarely of interest to our national media.114

After all, if the media did consider some of these horrifying facts, maybe we might decide to reopen the country and take back control of our own lives. But that would involve not using the coronavirus to beat up on Trump, and the media certainly wouldn’t have that.

Obviously the psychosocial distresses of the pandemic are a far greater burden on children than the virus itself.115 Yet, as is often the case, the children are disenfranchised by our establishment media. The teachers’ unions made sure kids stayed home despite the consensus that the children were likely safer in the classroom than elsewhere.116 The doctors knew this, but the politicians favored the unions over the science.

In July, MSNBC host Craig Melvin was stunned when an NBC News/MSNBC segment featuring pediatricians unanimously agreed they would send their kids back to school in the fall.117

By November, CDC director Robert Redfield and Dr. Anthony Fauci said the science was decidedly on the side of keeping schools open.118 But this didn’t carry sway in some parts of the country. Right around that time, Bill de Blasio enacted more school closures in New York.119 Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) tweeted that “the push to reopen schools was rooted in sexism, racism and misogyny.” (They deleted it later.)120 A CTU leader who identifies as “socialist” emphatically asserted that schools were “unsafe”—from a sunny vacation in Puerto Rico.121 Los Angeles had some of the most intense school closures in the country at the time, even as they saw the nation’s worst virus outbreak, suggesting the lockdowns weren’t having much of an effect, if any.122

In single-party Democratic cities like Los Angeles, New York, or Chicago, the real coronavirus authorities aren’t doctors or even the politicians; they’re the teachers’ unions, and our children are just their political cannon fodder in their battle to get paid to not work.

Our establishment media carried water for the Democrats and the unions while our children suffered.

Biden repeated the mantra “science over fiction” throughout the 2020 campaign, but once sworn in, he started to defy the recommendations of his own handpicked scientists, including his own CDC director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, a Johns Hopkins–trained physician with a master’s of public health from Harvard. Walensky told reporters, “There is increasing data to suggest that schools can safely reopen and that safe reopening does not suggest that teachers need to be vaccinated.

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