Phil McGraw criticizes school closings, claiming that children were harmed more by “mismanagement” than by “exposure to Covid.”

Dr. Phil McGraw stunned the hosts of The View by criticizing the shutdown of schools during the COVID-19 epidemic. The 73-year-old was questioned over the social media topics he covered in his most recent book, We’ve Got Issues.

“Who strips these kids of their support system?”
“We saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality since records have ever been kept, in, like, ’08, ’09, when cellphones came on, and kids started, they stopped living their lives and started watching people live their lives,” McGraw responded.

“And then ten years later, Covid strikes and the agencies who closed the schools for two years were the same ones who knew that. Who takes that action? Who strips these kids of their support network? He went on, “Who takes it away and shuts it down?”

The mandatory reporters were prevented from witnessing children who were being abused and sexually molested when it was shut down, McGraw continued. Instead, the children were sent home and left to their abusers without any way to watch, and the number of referrals fell by 50% to 60%.2.

Co-host Sunny Hostin responded to McGraw’s comments by stating, “There was also a pandemic going on.”

“They sought to preserve the lives of children. “We know many people who passed away during this,” Whoopi Goldberg said.

“Not school children,” McGraw shot back, drawing Ana Navarro’s query on if he was saying that there were no school deaths throughout the epidemic. It was, in my opinion, the safest bunch. They were the less susceptible group, and it isn’t an opinion that they suffered and will continue to suffer more from the mishandling of COVID than from COVID exposure. That is true, according to McGraw.