HUNDREDS of doctors have signed a letter to Pres. Trump expressing alarm over the health toll of the ongoing virus shutdowns and calling for a resumption of normal life. The group was led by Dr. Simone Gold, an emergency medicine specialist in Los Angeles who has started an organization of doctors opposed to the shutdowns. A Republican public relations firm reportedly helped publicize the letter.

The letter states that heart disease, alcoholism, undetected cancer, child abuse, various other diseases, depression and suicide have all increased dramatically as a result of the closures. (Sad, that the letter describes “unplanned pregnancies” as among the negative consequences.) The doctors said the shutting down of schools and universities is “incalculably detrimental … for years to come.”

It’s disturbing that American doctors en masse didn’t speak out sooner against the historically unprecedented move of quarantining the healthy instead of the sick, even to the point of shutting down all elective medicine. Some physicians and scientists have been publicly raising the alarm for many weeks. They have often been censored and faced personal attacks. At least eight videos I posted here, most of them featuring medical experts on the coronavirus, have been deleted from Youtube.

But this late-stage alarm from such a large group of doctors might help shorten the shutdowns. Listen to commentary by Ron Paul here.

Here is the letter in full (Source):

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Terry Morris writes:

“The letter states that … child abuse,… [has] increased dramatically as a result of the closures. (…) The doctors said the shutting down of schools and universities is “incalculably detrimental … for years to come.”

Shuttering the schools and universities is incalculably detrimental? Detrimental to what, and to whom? Inquiring minds would like to know. And “child abuse” has increased *dramatically* due to the shutdowns? I’d like to see some reliable evidence supporting that claim. But that’s the deal, isn’t it; doctors and “health officials” can get away with saying stuff like that without providing evidence of the fact because stupid people automatically believe it since they’re pre-programmed and predisposed to believe it in the first place; and in the second there is no reliable way to verify such claims in any case. Kind of like with the COVID nonsense – numbers of deaths, numbers of infected and so on. Am I seeing a similarity here?

This letter (or at least that part of it I excerpted above) puts me in mind of Gov. Bevens’s ((R) Kentucky) claims on the first day of the teacher walkout in his state in 2018 (which only lasted nine days, btw, and, moreover, was never going to last more than nine days, but that’s another story). Gov. Bevens held a news conference in front of the Capitol building in which he pronounced the following:

As surely as we’re having this conversation, children were harmed – some physically, some sexually, some were introduced to drugs for the first time because they were vulnerable and left alone. It’s offensive, really. If you want to write a story, that’s the kind of thing you should talk about.

Ah, yes, the old “the public schools and public school staffers are the saviors of the children” schtick. I never supported the teacher walkouts because, in point of fact and using my state as the prime example, teacher compensation in the so called “red states” was, before the strikes, comparable to teacher comp. in “blue states” when all the relevant factors (median household income, cost of living indexes, percentage of a given State’s workforce employed by the state, whether a state provides teacher pensions, and so on and so forth) are taken into consideration. But in any case, I’m not sure which is worse: the teacher strikes demanding more pay and benefits, or Gov. Bevens’s idiotic claims about child abuse resulting from the walkouts; the shuttering of the schools and universities – the indoctrination epicenters of the nation – due to the WuFlu, or this claim by six-hundred doctors that closing these nefarious institutions will result – has already resulted – in untold horrible consequences “for years to come.”

If there are any “silver linings” to this overreaction to fear of the spread of a cold virus, near the top of the list is the shuttering of the public schools and universities. Another, as I’ve said elsewhere several times during the last few weeks, is the shuttering of the Indian “gaming casinos” in my state. They can all remain closed from here to eternity for my part.

Laura writes:

I have to disagree.

I’d like to see everyone out of the public schools and everyone out of expensive, Marxist-indoctrination centers, but this is no way to go about it. It’s too sudden, too disruptive and too many families in our world are just not able mentally and psychologically to spend this much time together without the children ending up watching thousands of hours of bad TV or wandering the Internet and in various other ways coming under harmful influences.

I believe doctors who have said that child abuse has risen in the last couple of months. It makes sense. In some cases, children are home with unemployed stepfathers all day.

I also know some families have benefitted from spending more time together and some children have greatly benefitted from having free time away from school and studying on their own. But many have also been living under such tight restrictions from their parents that they can’t go outdoors to ride bikes or play. Some are going to have medical anxieties for many years to come.

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