*Dr. Phil appeared on “The View” Monday and provided insight regarding the adverse effects of COVID lockdowns on schoolchildren.
Dr. Phil dropped by the show to promote his new book “We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity.” The book takes readers on a journey “on how to come home to our core values, fortify our families, and re-embrace self-determination and self-governance,” per the official synopsis.
“In We’ve Got Issues: How You Can Stand Strong for America’s Soul and Sanity, Dr. Phil employs his signature no-nonsense approach to analyze America’s cultural crisis and offers practical, empirically based, action-oriented strategies to restore and support our country’s collective mental health,” the book’s description continues.
As The Blaze reports, Dr. Phil believes smartphones have contributed to high levels of “depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality” among children and teenagers because users “stopped living their lives and starting watching people live their lives.”
During his visit to “The View,” Dr. Phil elaborated on why he believes COVID lockdowns worsened those issues, noting that the governmental agencies responsible for monitoring these challenges among American youth were the same ones that “shut down the schools for two years.”
“Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down?” he asked. “And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch, and referrals dropped 50% to 60%.”
Co-hosts Sunny Hostin and Whoopi Goldberg were quick to defend the pandemic lockdowns.
“There was also a pandemic going on, and they were trying to save their lives,” Hostin told Dr. Phil.
“They were trying to save kids’ lives,” Goldberg added.
“Not schoolchildren,” Dr. Phil replied, prompting co-host Ana Navarro to ask, “Are you saying no schoolchildren died of COVID?”
“I’m saying it was the safest group. They were the less vulnerable group,” Dr. Phil responded. “And they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of COVID than they will from the exposure to COVID. And that’s not an opinion — that’s a fact.”
WATCH:
Dr. Phil leaves hosts on The View in STUNNED SILENCE after utterly SCHOOLING them on lockdowns— Hosts PANIC: ‘CUT TO COMMERCIAL BREAK!’pic.twitter.com/kqOxjo0eUP
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 27, 2024
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