{"id":1187214,"date":"2022-01-04T13:35:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187214"},"modified":"2022-01-04T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T18:35:27","slug":"new-york-times-admits-america-sacrificed-childrens-well-being-for-sake-of-adults-safety-in-the-name-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-times-admits-america-sacrificed-childrens-well-being-for-sake-of-adults-safety-in-the-name-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times Admits America Sacrificed Children\u2019s Well-Being For Sake Of Adults\u2019 Safety In The Name Of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-times-admits-america-sacrificed-childrens-well-being-for-sake-of-adults-safety-in-the-name-of-covid-19%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1187214&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Tuesday morning, The New York Times\u2019 \u201cMorning Newsletter\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/04\/briefing\/american-children-crisis-pandemic.html\">said<\/a> that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, \u201cAmericans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults\u201d in a piece titled, \u201cNo Way to Grow Up.\u201d That is, of course, a true statement. Yet that admission left many conservatives frustrated for having warned of the damage that lockdowns were doing to kids for nearly two years, only to be met with ridicule and dismissive attitudes from leftist media and politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican children are starting 2022 in crisis,\u201d NYT\u2019s David Leonhardt opined in the newsletter, \u201cI have long been aware that the pandemic was upending children\u2019s lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the newsletter, Leonhardt noted that due to lockdowns and other measures such as out-of-school learning via video calls, \u201cchildren fell far behind in school during the first year of the pandemic and have not caught up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the writer stated that mental health problems, adolescent suicide attempts, gun violence, and other behavioral issues amongst children have increased since the end of 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Leonhardt acknowledged that large parts of society falsely believed children would inevitably suffer from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the past two years, large parts of American society have decided harming children was an unavoidable side effect of Covid-19,\u201d Leonhardt wrote. \u201cAnd that was probably true in the spring of 2020, when nearly all of society shut down to slow the spread of a deadly and mysterious virus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, based on the new data and availability of the vaccine, Leonhardt stated that the U.S. was needlessly forcing children to suffer:<\/p>\n<p><em>The widespread availability of vaccines since last spring also raises an ethical question: Should children suffer to protect unvaccinated adults \u2014 who are voluntarily accepting Covid risk for themselves and increasing everybody else\u2019s risk, too? Right now, the United States is effectively saying yes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many communities \u201chave accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults, often without acknowledging the dilemma or assessing which decisions lead to less overall harm,\u201d Leonhardt concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In his writing, Leonhardt revealed his own biases against rural communities and states like Florida, which have acknowledged the damage being done to children all along and fought to keep life as normal as possible for kids with in-school instruction, sports leagues, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Blue states like New York, California, and other areas that have kept harsh COVID-19 measures ongoing have been the main drivers of the problems facing children. Leonhardt is either oblivious or willfully obtuse to that reality.<\/p>\n<p>Leonhardt shared his column via Twitter, stating that he wasn\u2019t sure \u201cthat many people fully grasp the depth\u201d of the damage being done to children.\u201d For that, he was promptly roasted by conservatives who reminded him that, in fact, many parents had understood the threat of it for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do grasp the depth of it,\u201d The Daily Wire\u2019s Matt Walsh rebutted. \u201cWe\u2019ve been saying this for two years but people like you ignored us and now you\u2019re pretending this was some kind of epiphany you had on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We do grasp the depth of it. We\u2019ve been saying this for two years but people like you ignored us and now you\u2019re pretending this was some kind of epiphany you had on your own. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ComJrrYrsu\">https:\/\/t.co\/ComJrrYrsu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattWalshBlog\/status\/1478398604083712005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany grasped it long ago,\u201d CNN commentator Mary-Katharine Hamm rebutted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Kids are resilient\u201d isn\u2019t an answer,\u201d Hamm said in reference to America\u2019s Federation of Teachers Union president Randi Weingarten\u2019s infamous defense of school closures and lockdowns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got resilient kids, they went through some s*** bf a pandemic,\u201d she tweeted. \u201cMy job then &amp; now: ensure they endured as little damage as possible, not congratulate them for being resilient while making them suffer for my anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Many grasped it long ago. \u201cKids are resilient\u201d isn\u2019t an answer. I got resilient kids, they went through some sh*t bf a pandemic. My job then &amp; now: ensure they endured as little damage as possible, not congratulate them for being resilient while making them suffer for my anxiety. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IPZysL2Fo8\">https:\/\/t.co\/IPZysL2Fo8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mary Katharine Ham (@mkhammer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkhammer\/status\/1478365971786174469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, large parts of American society have been screaming about the harm of school closures and demanding schools reopen for almost 2 years,\u201d author Helen Raleigh also added in response to Leonhardt\u2019s Twitter thread. \u201cThe liberal media, politicians, health officials, and the worst of all, teachers unions, refused to listen and rejected to follow science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No, large parts of American society have been screaming about the harm of school closures and demanding schools reopen for almost 2 years. The liberal media, politicians, health officials, and the worst of all, teachers unions, refused to listen and rejected to follow science. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Lsmz3zxCw1\">https:\/\/t.co\/Lsmz3zxCw1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Helen Raleigh (@HRaleighspeaks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HRaleighspeaks\/status\/1478385273264300042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, Leonhardt had actually used his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday morning, The New York Times\u2019 \u201cMorning Newsletter\u201d said that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, \u201cAmericans have accepted more harm to children in exchange for less harm to adults\u201d in a piece titled, \u201cNo Way to Grow Up.\u201d That is, of course, a true statement. 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