Dennis Prager Show - The Lockdown's Effect on your Children's Happiness
Aired: 2020-10-23
Duration: 07:59


=== The Scared Generation (07:59) ===

[00:00:00]  Number of cases means nothing.
[00:00:01]  In fact, the more cases, the better.
[00:00:03]  Then you have herd immunity.
[00:00:08]  BBC. Lockdown made life worse for two in five children, NHS report says.
[00:00:15]  So there's the BBC. It's on the left.
[00:00:17]  The NHS is on the left.
[00:00:19]  National Health Service in Britain.
[00:00:21]  Two in five children aged 11 to 16 feel the coronavirus lockdown has made their lives worse.
[00:00:28]  They said their biggest anxieties were about missing school and family and friends contracting COVID-19.
[00:00:34]  Excellent!
[00:00:35]  The media and parents and teachers have successfully scared a generation.
[00:00:40]  They're worried about dying from COVID. Are they worried about dying from a car crash?
[00:00:46]  More likely to.
[00:00:49]  Congratulations, parents.
[00:00:50]  Congratulations, teachers.
[00:00:52]  Congratulations, media.
[00:00:55]  You have Truly hurt.
[00:00:58]  Hurt.
[00:00:59]  Damaged.
[00:01:00]  A generation.
[00:01:02]  Mental disorders have risen in boys and girls since 2017 and now affect 16% of children.
[00:01:10]  I don't know what happened in 2017. But it's getting worse, obviously.
[00:01:19]  So, what's your take on happiness and the lockdown?
[00:01:23]  Happiness and COVID. Doing a report card.
[00:01:28]  We've done this every other month, so we've done it now three times.
[00:01:32]  This is the third time.
[00:01:33]  A report card from you.
[00:01:37]  I'll tell you how I've dealt with it.
[00:01:39]  I'm a fellow citizen of a lockdown state in a lockdown city.
[00:01:46]  I've ignored it from the very beginning.
[00:01:48]  That's what I've done.
[00:01:51]  I knew that they were a fraud, these regulations, from the beginning.
[00:01:56]  I said it.
[00:01:57]  I wrote it.
[00:01:57]  I backed it up.
[00:01:58]  I was right.
[00:02:00]  I was mocked.
[00:02:01]  I'm always mocked.
[00:02:03]  And my batting average is pretty near a thousand.
[00:02:09]  Because I pursue freedom and truth.
[00:02:11]  Truth first, freedom second.
[00:02:15]  They don't.
[00:02:17]  And I don't walk around scared.
[00:02:19]  It's one of the benefits of my attitude towards life.
[00:02:24]  I don't walk around scared.
[00:02:26]  I have gone to friends' homes every week since the lockdown, since March.
[00:02:33]  I have virtually not missed a Friday night Shabbat dinner with friends.
[00:02:41]  Haven't missed one.
[00:02:43]  Gathered together, no masks, enjoying each other's company.
[00:02:48]  I probably will live longer thanks to not obeying these despicable...
[00:02:54]  Irrational, anti-science, anti-human regulations.
[00:03:00]  People wearing masks in their cars, however.
[00:03:04]  There are people who haven't left their house.
[00:03:07]  For how long won't you leave your house?
[00:03:10]  A year?
[00:03:11]  Two years?
[00:03:13]  Why not two years?
[00:03:16]  Is quality of life important or is only absolute certitude as to Length of life.
[00:03:25]  Length of life is LOL. Maybe that's what LOL stands for.
[00:03:31]  Not laugh out loud.
[00:03:32]  Length of life.
[00:03:36]  Yes, allow me to live scared for a long time.
[00:03:41]  It's not the route to happiness.
[00:03:44]  So I have this nature.
[00:03:47]  To say screw you to people who tell me what to do who are irrational.
[00:03:51]  I totally obey laws that are rational.
[00:03:55]  I am going to obey Gavin Newsom?
[00:03:57]  The man is a moron.
[00:03:58]  I am going to allow a moron to tell me how to live my life?
[00:04:03]  It's the antithesis of happiness.
[00:04:07]  If you listen to Gavin Newsom, you are a less happy person than me.
[00:04:10]  This is the happiness hour, so I'm just talking about happiness.
[00:04:15]  1-8 Prager 776. How have you dealt with that happiness?
[00:04:19]  Are you depressed?
[00:04:20]  You have relatives, friends who are depressed who won't leave the house?
[00:04:24]  What do their kids do?
[00:04:25]  How would you like to be a kid growing up with scared parents?
[00:04:30]  That's fun.
[00:04:31]  That's really...
[00:04:33]  You know, kids need security more than love.
[00:04:35]  You could tell them you love them all day long, but if you don't give them security, they're screwed.
[00:04:40]  Get it?
[00:04:40]  They're mentally screwed with.
[00:04:45]  They want security.
[00:04:47]  Scared parents is insecurity.
[00:04:49]  You are making unhappy children.
[00:04:55]  They'll grow up and they'll look back and go, yeah, my parents, they were scared.
[00:05:04]  Virtually no kid dies of this.
[00:05:05]  Far more kids die of the flu than of COVID. But the parents are scared and the teachers are scared and the teachers' unions are despicable.
[00:05:16]  This is not a happiness help.
[00:05:20]  Happy is to live life to its fullest.
[00:05:25]  That's happy.
[00:05:27]  The draconian, despicable rules of having people who did have COVID and dying and they can't have a loved one come in?
[00:05:35]  Do you understand the cruelty that the scared have created and the medical profession has created?
[00:05:43]  The medical profession has disgraced itself.
[00:05:46]  Not every doctor.
[00:05:47]  There are magnificent doctors.
[00:05:50]  Some of them are heroes.
[00:05:52]  As a profession, it's a disgrace.
[00:05:54]  Like all the professions, the legal profession, the teaching profession, they're disgraces.
[00:06:01]  They're all dark.
[00:06:05]  Probably the angriest happiness hour I've ever had since 1999. I want you to be a happy human being.
[00:06:14]  Scared people aren't happy.
[00:06:16]  And they make the people around them unhappy.
[00:06:19]  Like the BBC report on the effect on kids.
[00:06:23]  Like the 14-year-old who called me up last hour from Minneapolis.
[00:06:31]  I haven't listened to a thing.
[00:06:33]  I have lived as normal a life as possible.
[00:06:36]  I can't get into a restaurant in Los Angeles.
[00:06:42]  Between two nothings named Eric Garcetti and Gavin Newsom who know nothing but accept how to control people's lives and think they're doing good.
[00:06:51]  Everybody who does bad thinks they're doing good.
[00:06:53]  Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, how can I do bad?
[00:06:57]  These are nothings.
[00:06:59]  We are governed by nothings.
[00:07:01]  And people live by it.
[00:07:03]  I don't understand why there isn't more protest.
[00:07:05]  It is a puzzle to me.
[00:07:11]  That people take this?
[00:07:14]  But you want to be happy?
[00:07:15]  You say no to these laws in your life.
[00:07:19]  You live as normal a life as possible.
[00:07:23]  Yep, you do.
[00:07:26]  I began reading to you a column in the tablet, which is probably one of the biggest Jewish online sites.
[00:07:37]  Very thoughtful article.
[00:07:39]  About, you know, the contempt for the ultra-orthodox in the New York area.
[00:07:46]  But he made the case.
[00:07:48]  These are the only people who are saying, you know what?
[00:07:52]  We want to live life.
[00:07:55]  These people who live, many in an apartment, want to get out of their apartment.