Dr. Phil McGraw

And they also knew that going to school, interacting with their peers, this was their lifeline.

They knew they were the most vulnerable they had ever been and that going to school was the lifeline that kept them going.

And they shut those schools down for two years.

And they also knew that that school is where the mandated reporters are.

That's where the mandated reporters are who report sexual molestation, child abuse, all kinds of trauma to these kids.

And when they shut it down, those referrals to Child Protective Services and Department of Child and Family Services

dropped as much as 50% because those people didn't have their eyes on those kids anymore.

What they did was send them home and lock them up with their abusers for two years with nobody to protect them.

And you know what they said?

They said, we did the best we could with what we knew at the time.

No, you did not.

You knew better than that.

You knew that was not a risk to those children.

You knew that that disease was not life-threatening to those healthy children, and you shut it down and sent them home and left them there for two years.

Some of them locked up with their abusers, the rest of them dealing with anxiety, depression,

loneliness and suicide.

You did it because you could, and you had no plan to reopen the schools.

And that's where government's getting in the way of being healthy.

That's where families are getting broken apart.

And that pisses me off.