There still hasn’t been a national reckoning for COVID lockdowns
Zachary Faria
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The effects of coronavirus lockdowns are still resonating throughout the country, and it still looks like there will be no national reckoning for the lives that were seriously harmed on behalf of anti-science “experts” and politicians.
U.S. Census Bureau data from 22 states and Washington, D.C., show that an estimated 50,000 students are still not attending any form of school, including home school, three years after lockdowns first began. That number was 231,000 in 2021, and, in both cases, the national number is certainly even higher.
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Those more than 50,000 students are now missing out on their fourth year of learning, a permanent setback they probably will never make up. Even the students who have returned to classrooms have been set back years academically and socially, with the learning loss not yet made up in schools. And, of course, those school closures hurt poor and minority students the most, even as the politicians and “experts” promoting those lockdowns called for a national reckoning on “systemic racism.”
Given all that, has there been any reckoning for COVID lockdowns and their effects? President Joe Biden remains in office and staffed his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with lockdown apologists. That CDC coordinated with teachers union icon Randi Weingarten to keep schools closed and restricted. Weingarten remains a prominent Democratic campaign booster.
Even at more local levels, politicians who pushed school closures remain in power. That includes Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), who wants to pretend that everyone just didn’t know any better, and California Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, who intends to replace Newsom as governor.
Worst of all, no reckoning is on the horizon. Biden and the Democratic Party would never dare reevaluate the lockdowns that they were front and center in pushing. Republicans, though, could do such an evaluation with a presidential nominee such as Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), who kept his state open and fought lockdowns at every step. Instead, the current polling landscape shows that GOP voters want to nominate former President Donald Trump, who also pushed lockdowns, shamed GOP states that reopened, and gave control of federal COVID guidance (and an award) to lockdown fanatic Dr. Anthony Fauci.
COVID lockdowns were one of the biggest mistakes in recent American history. Not having a national reevaluation of those lockdowns is going to be another. The opportunity to make some amends for that first mistake cannot be allowed to slip away with time, yet that is exactly what is happening.