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Oct. 22, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
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The Covid-19 Lockdown Was the Greatest Mistake Ever Committed
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And every Friday.
How is that?
Awful?
Yeah, I guess that might be the appropriate term.
Second hour of the show devoted to happiness.
And this is a tough time in American life.
Very tough time.
For me to acknowledge it means it is a tough time.
So, what are you doing about it?
And that's the subject.
Open lines.
Let's take your calls.
Very important hour.
Let's see.
Here's an interesting one.
Kyle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Hello.
How are you doing, Dennis?
I can't believe I'm talking to you right now.
Oh, that's very sweet.
Thank you.
So, an article that came out on the 30th of September in Philadelphia Inquirer, they touched on...
They had touched on the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the epidemic they're facing just at the hospital and the crisis they're having there.
They have 585 deads, and a majority of those, only about a dozen of those, are COVID-related.
And the rest are either upper respiratory and mental health issues, a lot stemming from the pandemic itself.
And it's getting so overflowed that they're looking to expand another facility just for a psychiatric unit, just to the children's hospital.
And to what do they attribute the psychiatric problems?
To a lot of the pandemic and children missing school being separated from their friends and family.
Yeah, well this was my worry from the very beginning when I called the...
The lockdown, the greatest mistake in history.
It's like the immature, namely people that are called experts, they tend to be immature.
They never ask the most important question, what is the price paid for any given policy?
Like there's no price paid.
But that's the only question mature people should be asking.
and the price paid by children and adults in work, in schooling, has been horrific.
I'd like to see that article.
What was the date of it?
Yeah, it was September 30th.
And it was about how many beds are being reserved in Philadelphia?
Well, there's 585 beds, it says in the article.
And a majority of them are either upper respiratory or mental health issues, and they're opening up an extra 46-bed unit in the Philadelphia area just for psychiatric because they're not able to handle the psychiatric issues that these children are having directly at their main hospital.
And the upper respiratory issues that they had touched on have been because the children weren't exposed to.
Wow, I'm going to look that article up.
Kyle, I deeply appreciate your calling in.
My assumption when I hear experts say is that what I'm about to read is stupid.
That's my assumption.
99% of the time, I think it turns out to be accurate.
The harm that has been done to humanity, not just in the United States, to humanity over this past year with the lockdowns.
See the guy arrested, by the way?
It's almost unbelievable.
A guy who was on a beach in, what was it, Sydney?
Sydney or Melbourne.
And he was on a beach alone.
Alone.
And the cops came and arrested him.
You're not allowed to sunbathe in Australia.
Health Uber Alice.
How often did I say that in the course of the last years?
Health uber alis.
Safetyism.
The joke is, it's not making people safe, though.
It's making people crazy.
But there is a solution if you have kids, and that's homeschooling.
Spend time with them.
Enjoy them.
Have them enjoy other kids.
Unmasked.
See faces.
Enjoy life.
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