Even the Media Is Now Admitting COVID Restrictions Are Leaving Millions of Kids ‘In Crisis’

New York Times reporting has finally joined reality and acknowledged a simple fact: Locking down children and forcing them into insane COVID protocols is “no way to grow up.”

In a Tuesday Times newsletter, the outlet’s David Leonhardt wrote that “American children are starting 2022 in crisis” — and that crisis is caused by the measures meant to protect them from getting the coronavirus.

(We’ve been saying this since the beginning of the pandemic here at The Western Journal — and we’re going to continue saying it no matter how much panic the latest variant produces. You can help us in our battle to bring America the truth by subscribing.)

In the piece, Leonhardt said he had “long been aware that the pandemic was upending children’s lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become.”

The reasons? Children who fell behind during the first year of virtual learning and haven’t been catching up, Leonhardt wrote — especially minority students. Mental health issues had also increased to the point the American Academy of Pediatrics, in declaring a national state of emergency regarding children’s mental health, noted there had been “dramatic increases in emergency department visits for all mental health emergencies.”- READ MORE

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