{"id":1485314,"date":"2022-05-20T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1485314"},"modified":"2022-05-20T08:30:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T12:30:37","slug":"how-the-left-has-poisoned-what-it-means-to-be-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-left-has-poisoned-what-it-means-to-be-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Left Has Poisoned What It Means To Be Healthy"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fhow-the-left-has-poisoned-what-it-means-to-be-healthy%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=1485314&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--><div><\/div>\n<p>In a little public school on Capitol Hill, kindergartners are banned from campus nearly every single week. School policy on the matter is simple: If a child in a class tests positive for Covid, every unvaccinated child in that child\u2019s class must quarantine at home for 10 days \u2014 or return \u201cearly\u201d if their parents produce a negative test on the morning of the sixth day.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/equality-not-elitism\/school-exposure-policies-keep-healthy-children-away-from-in-person-learning\">less than one-third<\/a> of children aged 11 and younger vaccinated, the policy casts a wide net. And with Centers for Disease Control information showing Covid infections <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#rates-by-vaccine-status\">currently higher<\/a> among vaccinated children than unvaccinated children, those children allowed by the policy to remain in school provide a rolling drumbeat of asymptomatic classroom positives.<\/p>\n<p>The result? Mass de facto suspensions rolling through grades, with children across the city missing five, 10, or more days of school this spring already. Quarantine letters are sent home sometimes multiple times a week. Working and single parents count themselves lucky if their child was already kicked out of class the day the next positive pops.<\/p>\n<p>These policies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/equality-not-elitism\/school-exposure-policies-keep-healthy-children-away-from-in-person-learning\">aren\u2019t confined to Washington, D.C.<\/a>, either. In leftist school districts across the country, the same draconian rules keep children already robbed of years of education and social interaction from ever hoping to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, the Centers for Disease Control supports these policies. In fact, they wrote them. Why? All in the name of keeping children \u201chealthy\u201d (or, rather, the teachers who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/01\/teachers-union-collaborated-with-cdc-on-school-reopening-emails\/\">demanded<\/a> them happy).<\/p>\n<p>Today, the CDC recommends keeping kids masked and away from their peers because of a disease that doesn\u2019t threaten them. Indeed, one of the earliest things we learned \u2014 more than two years ago \u2014 is the disease doesn\u2019t threaten children. Still, the CDC and its adherents keep kids under tighter lockdowns than adults anywhere in the country hold themselves to. All in the name of health.<\/p>\n<p>So what does the word \u201chealthy\u201d even mean today? Increasingly, it means whatever those in power want it to. Take a look at this year\u2019s Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<p>The image is supposed to be bold; to generate conversation. How? A catalog traditionally dedicated to celebrating extremely fit women is instead celebrating an obese woman; is instead promoting what the woke left claims is a \u201chealthier\u201d body image.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating \u201cplus-sized\u201d models is all the rage these days. Companies that don\u2019t get in on the fad are themselves shamed for having \u201cfat shamed\u201d \u2014 a term to used keep our increasingly unhealthy citizenry comfortable in their own unhealthiness.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether you think \u201cfat is beautiful,\u201d it\u2019s not healthy. The \u201cbrave\u201d discussion Sports Illustrated generated isn\u2019t about that, though. While plenty of writers and reporters were eager to condemn philosopher Jordan Peterson\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/jordan-peterson-quits-twitter-calling-231218547.html\">misdirected criticism<\/a> of the model, far fewer were eager to mention the deadly side effects of gross obesity; among them, diabetes, heart disease and \u2014 interestingly enough \u2014 the dreaded Covid.<\/p>\n<p>For years now we\u2019ve known that, far from \u201ca pandemic of the unvaccinated,\u201d Covid is rather a pandemic of the fat, who have suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=obesity+covid+boston+globe&#038;rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS982US982&#038;oq=obesity+covid+boston+globe&#038;aqs=chrome..69i57j0i546.8097j0j7&#038;hl=en-US&#038;sourceid=chrome-mobile&#038;ie=UTF-8\">far higher fatality rates<\/a> per infection.<\/p>\n<p>But even while fear of Covid keeps our kids out of school for sometimes years at a time to protect \u201ctheir health,\u201d those same health concerns are quickly ejected in the name of what progressives recharacterize as \u201cbody positivity.\u201d The word \u201chealthy\u201d doesn\u2019t enter the media conversation, except to hang its wreath on the \u201cbody image\u201d debate.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s strange, but old rules don\u2019t apply when words are deployed in the service of the woke left.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSexual health,\u201d for example, is used to justify all sorts of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realchrisrufo\/status\/1526667981366992902\">perversions<\/a> in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMental health\u201d is used to justify feeding hormone suppressants to vulnerable children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReproductive health\u201d is used to justify abortion.<\/p>\n<p>The list goes on, and \u201chealth\u201d is just one among many other words (\u201cscience,\u201d \u201cgender,\u201d \u201cdisinformation,\u201d \u201cprotest,\u201d etc.) so casually twisted in the service of the woke left.<\/p>\n<p>The modern American left has made great use of this tactic: taking broadly accepted words and norms, then twisting them to mean a very different thing from what they once meant. It\u2019s a current tactic for sure, but it\u2019s hardly a new one. The word <em>heresy <\/em>has long been used to describe a fatally incorrect interpretation of religion, but the word itself comes to us from the ancient Greek word, \u201c<em>hairesis<\/em>\u201d \u2014 meaning \u201cto take, or choose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What made the old heresies so alluring to the unsuspecting faithful is that they didn\u2019t simply expunge whole ideas \u2014 or even whole-cloth invent new ones. Rather, they took, or chose, certain ideas or beliefs from their hosts, elevating or subverting them in such a way as to subtly \u2014 but substantively \u2014 change the original philosophy into something sneakily different: into a heresy.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s social and intellectual health, for example, have been sacrificed on the altar of teacher\u2019s paranoia.<\/p>\n<p>Americans\u2019 physical health has been sacrificed to alleged emotional health.<\/p>\n<p>School kids\u2019 mental health and moral wellbeing have been sacrificed to adults\u2019 perversions.<\/p>\n<p> Teenagers\u2019 futures have been sacrificed to gender ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The lives of children have been sacrificed to the independence of their mothers.<\/p>\n<p>Again and again, one aspect of human life is taken, or chosen, for aggrandizement or debasement to the detriment of the whole truth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an old trick, and a dangerous one, but the cure has remained the same. The woke left is intent to wield words as weapons, using our own good things against us. Don\u2019t buy it; don\u2019t adopts the definitions, or use the phrases they demand.<\/p>\n<p>The cure to heresy is now as it was then: simple truth. Don\u2019t be afraid to use it; it will serve you well.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Christopher Bedford is a senior editor at The Federalist, a founding partner of RightForge, vice chairman of Young Americans for Freedom, a board member at The Daily Caller News Foundation and National Journalism Center, and the author of &#8220;The Art of the Donald.&#8221; His work has been featured in The American Mind, National Review, the New York Post and the Daily Caller, where he led the Daily Caller News Foundation and spent eight years. A frequent guest on Fox News and Fox Business, he was raised in Massachusetts and lives across the river from D.C. Follow him on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CBedfordDC\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a little public school on Capitol Hill, kindergartners are banned from campus nearly every single week. 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