WATCH: CBS Journo Blasts ‘Crushing Impact’ Of COVID Policies On Children
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CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford said that despite being at low risk from serious complications or death from the coronavirus, children have “suffered and sacrificed the most” throughout the pandemic.
She also said that if we don’t adjust our policies, “they will be paying for our generation’s decisions, the rest of their lives.”
She’s not wrong.
Crawford made the statements on an end-of-year review segment on CBS’s “Face The Nation” when discussing some of the big underreported stories of the year.
Host Margaret Brennan asked, “Well, I want to get to underreported stories as well. Jan?”
CRAWFORD: Oh, for me — I mean, my kids hear me rant about this every day, so I might as well tell you guys it’s — it’s the crushing impact that our COVID policies have had on young kids and children. By far the least serious risk for serious illness. But I mean, even teenagers, you know, a healthy teenager has a one in a million chance of getting, and dying from COVID, which is way lower than, you know, dying in a car wreck on a road trip. But they have suffered and sacrificed the most, especially kids in underrepresented at risk communities. And now we have the Surgeon General saying there’s a mental health crisis among our kids. The risk of suicide — suicide attempts among girls now up 51% this year, black kids nearly twice as likely as white kids to die by suicide.
I mean, school closures, lockdowns, cancellation of sports. You couldn’t even go on a playground in the D.C. area without cops scurrying — getting — shooing the kids off. A tremendous negative impact on kids, and it’s been an afterthought. You know, it’s hurt their dreams, their future — learning loss, risk of abuse, their mental health. And now, with our knowledge, our vaccines. If our policies don’t reflect a more measured and reasonable approach for our children, they will be paying for our generation’s decisions, uh, the rest of their lives. And that, to me, is the greatest underreported story of the past year.
“They will be paying for our generation’s decisions the rest of their lives”: @JanCBS explains why she thinks 2021’s biggest underreported story was the devastating impact of COVID policies on children pic.twitter.com/AUU1f6AFNi
— Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 26, 2021
In early December, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a public health advisory on the crisis of youth mental health. A recent NBC report highlights social media use, but it’s pretty clear that the pandemic response — which has pushed socialization further online — has contributed to the problem by removing the normal non-screen outlets that kids had for socialization.
To be fair to Crawford, a quick scroll through her tweets shows that she was pretty consistent in lamenting the impact of COVID policies on children and teens.
Early in the pandemic, she was clearly concerned with the cancellation and sidelining of sports, but as things dragged on, the learning loss, lack of socialization, and
Reading reactions from these kids whose careers and/or seasons are over, all that sacrifice and hard work, excitement and hope… all gone ?
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) March 12, 2020
Glad to see this. Not nearly enough talk about how to safely engage kids now. Just think about the outsized impact the youthful years have on your life—-Kids now are sacrificing tremendously. Kudos to @PhilaBelles and organizations trying to find a way https://t.co/yAiE3eRrQX
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) May 17, 2020
I agree with this but footbal players shouldnt control the #WeWantToPlay narrative regardless. Everyones forgetting all these kids in other sports—volleyball, softball, track, even basketball—who’ve spent their whole lives working, sacrificing to be the best athlete they can be https://t.co/ogEY0xhBk7
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) August 10, 2020
A tragic story and not the only one like it. Our policies have treated a generation of kids like an afterthought, when a year in their young lives is like a decade in ours. Society will suffer for this long after we are gone. Prayers for family and friends of Dylan Buckner ? https://t.co/MOZgn0iceK
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) January 11, 2021
Actually @MayorBowser took it away. Kids across the country (and in parts of DC/MD/VA) have been playing ball without issues. But kids in DC public schools, like these girls at Anacostia, can only watch as others get opportunities they’re denied. Thanks @remyreg for speaking out https://t.co/opwt67xVaQ
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) March 17, 2021
A plea for a return to normalcy should not be controversial. Kids have sacrificed more ANYONE even though they had lowest risk. Crazy, if anyone would stop and think about it
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) November 23, 2021
Still, Crawford is still one of the media elites in that liberal bubble that can’t seem to grasp that the vaccinated also contract and spread the ‘Rona. A couple of weeks ago, she tweeted that Cornell’s decision to shut down the Ithica, NY campus a few days early because of the spread of the Omicron variant among the fully-vaccinated student population was about kids “paying a heavy price to keep the unvaccinated ‘safe.'”
Kids AGAIN paying a heavy price to keep the unvaccinated “safe.” Why is this acceptable??
"While…we have not seen severe illness in any of our infected students, we do have a role to play in reducing the spread of the disease in the broader community” https://t.co/7r5jdb9hyM
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) December 15, 2021
Then they should stay away from high school and college campuses. And professors who have concerns can teach remotely. There are better, more targeted solutions that don’t hurt our kids—who will be paying for what our generation has done to them the rest of their lives
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) December 15, 2021
And that wasn’t @Cornell concern:
“we do have a role to play in reducing the spread of the disease in the broader community”
A disease BTW that all studies show is mild
— Jan Crawford (@JanCBS) December 15, 2021
Still, it’s nice that a CBS reporter is actually acknowledging the elephant in the room.
But, some noted that she should’ve been a louder voice…
Isn't she a reporter
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) December 27, 2021
…or that some people were sounding the alarm a long time ago, but were vilified for it.
Folks. Many of us have been saying this for almost two years now and yeah
— Luke Zaleski (@ZaleskiLuke) December 26, 2021
Never forget that the teachers’ unions colluded with the government to keep schools closed and now they’re gaslighting about what needs to happen to keep kids “safe.”
Don't drag everyone into this "our generation's decisions" blame game. Blame @rweingarten, @AFTunion, #Fauci, and all you Democrats in mainstream media for starters.
Leave normal people out of it.
— Red Dot in a Blue Dot in a Red State (@reddotinaustin) December 27, 2021
It would be nice if Jan Crawford would hold some of these lockdown advocates accountable for the tremendous harm they’ve done to children, but it’s probably not a good idea to hold your breath waiting for that to happen. After all, that’s her professional and social circle.