The Invisible Victims Of The Covid Crisis

My BLOGS typically are focused on the corrupt biased media in this country….. but not this one. This one is about the people that have paid the ultimate price with their lives during this COVID pandemic and NOT a SINGLE ONE of them died from COVID.

This is about Hayden and Anastasia and Matthew and Trevor. It’s about London, Elise, Kanasha, Livia and Charley. This is about them and their families. In my mind, THIS is the absolute most horrific part of what has happened in our country over the past 12 months.

In March 2020, Governors, Mayors, School Boards, Health Departments, and Dr. Anthony Fauci started a boulder rolling down a hill.

They all decided that in order to “save lives” we must ISOLATE. At the time, I think you’d be hard pressed to find many Americans that were opposed to this strategy. We had all seen videos from China of people collapsing in the street and being scooped up by unmarked vans. We saw China’s construction crews working nonstop to build a hospital on a flat piece of dirt. It rose out of the dirt in a matter of days and we were told it was filled to capacity the instant it opened. THAT was our frame of reference with this virus.

We were told by the physician who was crowned “KNOWER OF ALL THINGS” that we could see close to 2 million of our fellow Americans dead in the not too distant future if we didn’t take extreme measures immediately! All of that resulted in almost 330 million Americans saying…. “We will ISOLATE”.

Adults sacrificed immensely. They closed businesses that they had poured years of hard work into. They found themselves with bills piling up and no income to pay them. The stress that some families endured during this time is really difficult to imagine. People donated food and whatever they could spare to local churches for families in need. Many tried to help others when in reality they could have used some help themselves. It was a collective effort of saving each other and we, as adults understood that.

The youth in our country were “forced” to comply. They are the voiceless victims of the mandates that destroyed so much of their lives. Their schools were closed. Their extracurricular activities prohibited. Their part time jobs at movie theaters, stores and restaurants vanished. Everything that they relied on as “normal” was taken from them.

Maybe you think it was for the greater good. In the beginning of our battle with this virus, I will concede that your viewpoint was valid. Where we are NOW and what we know NOW destroys that viewpoint. The leaders driving this COVID strategy had been provided with enough data and “science” to know by August 2020 that kids were NOT super spreaders of this virus and the likelihood of them being hospitalized or dying from it was LESS than being struck by lightening. And yet….. they continued to live under these suffocating mandates.

You cannot simplify the closure of schools in terms of just the lack of education. This is so much bigger than just reading, writing and arithmetic. Schools are a safe haven for millions of children. They are a safe place for them to be instead of an abusive home environment. They provide food to many that otherwise would not have a meal that day. Schools provide athletics to keep them physically healthy and socialization for their mental well being. People on the side of keeping kids “safe” at home are either willfully blind or completely unaware that the education system in this country SAVES LIVES daily just by being in existence!

The ones who have been lecturing others about wearing a mask to “Save A Life” seem to be very quiet when it comes to the casualty of children losing theirs from self inflicted harm because the isolation destroyed them. IF it is so vital that we all do what we can to “Save A Life” …. Why have we allowed a national strategy that has caused death? Why haven’t school boards and mayors ordered every school OPENED to save children’s lives?? The harsh reality of that is our children became dispensable.

A while back as I started looking into these tragic stories, I stumbled upon one that really stuck with me. Journalist, Ann Bauer, documented a zoom parents meeting with a State Senator in a Minnesota school district. Read what I did:

Let me start by saying, this is a wealthy district. Maybe one of the top 5 in the state. To be honest, I almost discounted it. I thought, They’re fine! I should be worrying about the families in real need. Well, they’re NOT fine.

There were parents who said they’d never seen their kids dark or hopeless or unhappy. They described girls who hid in their rooms and cried and boys falling so far behind they may never catch up.

Over and over, because these were nice people, they acknowledged how lucky they are. They said they had money for tutors and they’re worried about families that don’t.

Still what surprised me is how money didn’t make this ok. These parents looked terrified. Two of the fathers cried; one turned off his video because he could not keep it together.

They talked about suicidal kids, their own and others. They talked about promising athletes who couldn’t play sports. They said their kids are being sacrificed.

A teen who looked to be about 15 spoke. She was eloquent and dear and intensely respectful. She started sobbing halfway through and said she got to a place so dark she didn’t know how to get out.

Upon reading that exchange, you must realize that this is occurring in cities and counties all over our country that have prohibited children from attending school. It is heartbreaking to see not only the parents but also the children so broken.

Over time, we learned that children are NOT prone to developing complications or dying from this virus. The CDC, The American Pediatrics Association and even the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) have presented data to all of us so we know the risks to children and even to the staff in the schools is minimal. Many, far too many are flinging the argument that schools need to remain closed because even one death from a teacher or staff worker is too great a risk to take. I ask those people to consider THESE deaths.

There were more….. hundreds more that I could have included. All of the parents of these children state unequivocally that the increased stress of living an isolated life from COVID restrictions was the ultimate factor in their deaths. Many of these children had suffered from depression in the past, but their struggles were magnified due to their schools, sports, and social life being ripped from them. They chose suicide over life.

Children have become the casualty of a strategy that was wrong. The goalposts that determine WHEN schools & extracurricular activities will resume have been slid so many times that they aren’t even on the field anymore. In some states…. the goalposts have slid off the field, down the street and into another county! We were told once we have PPE they will reopen. Once we have hospital beds. Once we have ventilators. Once we have treatment options. Once we have a vaccine. Once teachers receive the vaccine. Once everyone receives the vaccine. Once the entire country is vaccinated. Once the virus is completely eradicated.

I’m not an epidemiologist, but even I know that viruses are never completely eradicated. It will always be in our midst. It will be minimized and contained but if the goal is complete eradication that some are demanding…. then I can tell you right now, we will never ever achieve it.

Here’s the thing… kids are smart and they see how elected officials and teachers unions have turned their lives upside down with the stroke of a pen. Many have lost faith in ever being what they dreamed of. They now wonder if it’s worth it to strive for good grades to get college scholarships or spend hours perfecting their skills in sports. In the blink of an eye… all of their hard work can be worth nothing because the government, school boards and teachers unions can shut doors and prevent them from living the life they dream of. We’ve destroyed not only lives, but dreams.

Our future IS this generation of children and we as a society will pay an enormous price for the horrific circumstances they have been forced to live in.

The people who’ve deprived children of an education and social life for a year now assure us that it will be ok because kids are “resilient”. No, they aren’t. Kids adapt. They quickly learn to see bad things as normal. That’s not the same as resiliency. The harm is real and severe. Some decided that protecting adults by sacrificing children is the morally correct thing to do. It is NOT morally correct. It was wrong in August when they chose to keep schools closed and it continues to be wrong every single day that they remain closed.

Families across this country have buried loved ones who have died from this virus. President Biden publicly acknowledged the grim milestone of 500,000 deaths. I’m not going to critique that number even though I firmly believe it is hugely inaccurate. I am appalled that the people that died from being unable to withstand another moment of this isolation are never acknowledged in any way. The media doesn’t tell their stories. The politicians don’t want to “go there”. They are the “forgotten” casualties that could have been prevented.

The victims of this “Keep The Schools Closed” strategy are not limited to just these children that died. The families of these children will suffer this loss every single day for the rest of their lives. They will always have unanswered questions and “what ifs”. I’m sure that the horror of losing their child this way was quickly followed by another.

The mandates of occupancy limits and social gathering prohibitions smacked them all in the face when they were not allowed to have memorials or funerals for their kids. The tentacles of these mandates are far reaching beyond just the schools. I’m sure families noticed that the politicians in our country gathered to attend the funeral of one of their own, Congressman John Lewis (GA), while they were not allowed to do the same. Imagine being told… “Only 10 people allowed for the funeral” and then you turn on the TV and see this:

I know this is not the usual “style” of my BLOG. I tend to keep it a bit more lighthearted with talk of head explosions and eyes bulging over inept corrupt politicians and our media, but I feel strongly that this story needs to be told. These children and their families need to be acknowledged. And most importantly, we as citizens need to make the phone calls, send the emails, and share this story because every child in this country deserves better. They deserve to be children, to learn, to play sports, to attend dances and school functions and they deserve to LIVE!

**** ALL of the photos and details about the children were compiled by @LittleMsOpinion

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