Dennis Prager Show - The Covid-19 Lockdown Was the Greatest Mistake Ever Committed
Aired: 2021-10-22
Duration: 05:06


=== Philadelphia's Psychiatric Crisis (05:06) ===

[00:00:00]  And every Friday.
[00:00:02]  How is that?
[00:00:05]  Awful?
[00:00:06]  Yeah, I guess that might be the appropriate term.
[00:00:11]  Second hour of the show devoted to happiness.
[00:00:14]  And this is a tough time in American life.
[00:00:18]  Very tough time.
[00:00:20]  For me to acknowledge it means it is a tough time.
[00:00:23]  So, what are you doing about it?
[00:00:26]  And that's the subject.
[00:00:28]  Open lines.
[00:00:30]  Let's take your calls.
[00:00:31]  Very important hour.
[00:00:34]  Let's see.
[00:00:35]  Here's an interesting one.
[00:00:36]  Kyle in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[00:00:39]  Hello.
[00:00:40]  How are you doing, Dennis?
[00:00:41]  I can't believe I'm talking to you right now.
[00:00:43]  Oh, that's very sweet.
[00:00:45]  Thank you.
[00:00:47]  So, an article that came out on the 30th of September in Philadelphia Inquirer, they touched on...
[00:00:54]  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.
[00:01:02]  They have 585 deads, and a majority of those, only about a dozen of those, are COVID-related.
[00:01:11]  And the rest are either upper respiratory and mental health issues, a lot stemming from the pandemic itself.
[00:01:18]  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.
[00:01:28]  And to what do they attribute the psychiatric problems?
[00:01:33]  To a lot of the pandemic and children missing school being separated from their friends and family.
[00:01:41]  Yeah, well this was my worry from the very beginning when I called the...
[00:01:47]  The lockdown, the greatest mistake in history.
[00:01:50]  It's like the immature, namely people that are called experts, they tend to be immature.
[00:01:58]  They never ask the most important question, what is the price paid for any given policy?
[00:02:05]  Like there's no price paid.
[00:02:07]  But that's the only question mature people should be asking.
[00:02:12]  and the price paid by children and adults in work, in schooling, has been horrific.
[00:02:21]  I'd like to see that article.
[00:02:23]  What was the date of it?
[00:02:24]  Yeah, it was September 30th.
[00:02:27]  And it was about how many beds are being reserved in Philadelphia?
[00:02:34]  Well, there's 585 beds, it says in the article.
[00:02:43]  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.
[00:03:04]  And the upper respiratory issues that they had touched on have been because the children weren't exposed to.
[00:03:14]  Wow, I'm going to look that article up.
[00:03:20]  Kyle, I deeply appreciate your calling in.
[00:03:26]  My assumption when I hear experts say is that what I'm about to read is stupid.
[00:03:34]  That's my assumption.
[00:03:35]  99% of the time, I think it turns out to be accurate.
[00:03:43]  The harm that has been done to humanity, not just in the United States, to humanity over this past year with the lockdowns.
[00:03:55]  See the guy arrested, by the way?
[00:03:57]  It's almost unbelievable.
[00:03:59]  A guy who was on a beach in, what was it, Sydney?
[00:04:04]  Sydney or Melbourne.
[00:04:05]  And he was on a beach alone.
[00:04:08]  Alone.
[00:04:09]  And the cops came and arrested him.
[00:04:14]  You're not allowed to sunbathe in Australia.
[00:04:18]  Health Uber Alice.
[00:04:31]  How often did I say that in the course of the last years?
[00:04:35]  Health uber alis.
[00:04:37]  Safetyism.
[00:04:39]  The joke is, it's not making people safe, though.
[00:04:44]  It's making people crazy.
[00:04:49]  But there is a solution if you have kids, and that's homeschooling.
[00:04:54]  Spend time with them.
[00:04:56]  Enjoy them.
[00:04:57]  Have them enjoy other kids.
[00:05:02]  Unmasked.
[00:05:04]  See faces.
[00:05:06]  Enjoy life.