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April 24, 2025 - Epoch Times
03:24
‘They Were Sacrificed for Nothing’: David Zweig
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There are a lot of data that show that the amount that a child was out of school is directly correlated with lower education achievement, with lower scores from the pandemic.
There's no ambiguity.
But there are many other things that happened that can't quite be quantified in the same way, but they're no less important.
We don't know exactly the kids who were lost, who just stopped going to school entirely.
And kids unnecessarily Tens of millions of children in America, without benefit, experienced harm to varying degrees, and some of them were fine.
And just because we can't quantify it later doesn't mean it wasn't real.
You said something very important: without benefit.
How so?
In the moment, we knew that as early as May...
We had guinea pigs, and those were children in Europe.
Inadvertently, they acted as our testers.
And they went back to school.
Millions of kids in 22 countries began reopening their schools toward the end of April, beginning of May.
And in May, and then again a second time in June, the ministers of education in the EU got together, met.
And during this meeting, they said, At the end of May, they said schools have been open now.
It was something like a month at that point for many of them.
22 different countries said,"We have observed no negative consequence to community rates by having the schools open." They met again in June, and it was the same announcement.
It was the same reaction.
So far, what we learned from the minister, there haven't been any significant increase or negative impact of reopening schools in the countries
that reopened schools in the last month.
This was completely ignored in America, in the media.
I wrote about it once in June.
I mentioned the meeting.
But as far as I'm aware, no one, no one else had covered this in the American media.
And to me, this is something that really requires a pause for people to think about.
This was not one country.
This was not a random comment somewhere on a blog.
This is a meeting of the education ministers at the EU in an official meeting, and they made this announcement about schools have been open in nearly two dozen countries, and we've observed no negative consequences of this.
So from the very beginning, Jan, the evidence was there that schools were not driving transmission in the pandemic.
And I remember at the time thinking, how can this be?
How can it be that millions of children have gone back to school in countries that are different from America in many regards, but also very much the same?
In many regards.
There were a list of excuses or reasons that were given, including by many public health experts, about why we were to ignore Europe.
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