She's had more respiratory issues than her siblings. Lizzie, a child with Down syndrome, was probably more susceptible to a respiratory virus. “The school closures were devastating for her. Her 11-year-old daughter has Down syndrome. We can go short times of isolation, but we're talking a year and a half. And when you take all of that away and all of a sudden these kids are in isolation, they mentally don't know how to handle it. “You're taking children out of their natural environment of playing with each other, interacting socially and learning coping skills by interacting with other children. Miki Sedivy, a mom who lost her teenaged daughter Hannah to an accidental drug overdose in 2021. And we were like, what do we do? What do we do?”

She was screaming and clawing at herself. The first time Scarlett went to hospital, she kind of had a bit of a nervous breakdown. “A lot of it was just mental health, suicidal tendencies, self-harm. By January 2021, she really just no longer had the motivation to do it. For the most part it was pretty dire and terrible. I mean it was school in like the thinnest most loose of the word. very disengaged, never saw people's faces, no one had the camera on. And then she started her new school on-line. I was just sad.”Įllie O’Malley, Scarlett’s mom. I wasn't that person that worked to get straight A's anymore. And without that, I lost who I was completely. You find how you wanna be when you grow up there. You have your friends there, you find yourself there. And then you go to college if you want, but that's supposed to be your life. School is supposed to be your life from kindergarten to senior year. That's not how it's supposed to go in school. “I don't wanna blame it all on school closures, but it's been a really, really big thing for me. I mean, how could you, you're just talking to literal black boxes on a computer.” But by that time, the damage was done, right?” Then I would try and go out and play with my friends, towards 2021 when it started to become, okay, you can somewhat go out, just stay socially distanced. And I was getting in a place where I had to start thinking of alternatives to football, thinking of life without football. And I don't, and for me it was just like, why? Why me? Why my teammates? Why is it that we don't get to have fun? Why is it that we don't get to play the sport that we love too? How am I going to get into a college if I don't have a junior year of football? We're doing the same things, and they get to practice, they get to play. It's not like they're playing something totally drastically different. What is the difference? Because we're playing the same sport. why do they get to play football? And I don't. Why is it that someone who pays for school and has more money to throw around. Garrett “Bam” Morgan, Jr., high school student.

And besides it’s not a competition! No gloating! Let’s focus on the future! ” “ The open-schoolers may have been right but for the wrong reasons so they’re still terrible people. We need to forgive the hard calls people needed to make without enough information. “ Yeah schools shouldn’t have been closed so long but how could we have known! It’s over now. This all needs to be documented because the narrative is already shifting: The teens and parents cited below are all featured in a documentary film I’m making. Rather than do my own rant about why I still care about the lasting harm done to children, I’d like to let the kids and parents speak for themselves. These young adults are least at risk from covid, most at risk from vaccine induced myocarditis and are some of the last Americans required to be boosted. This rule seemed designed specifically to punish children.Ĭolleges are some of the last places requiring vaccination - even boosters, in some instances, like at Fordham University. They could, however, attend a Knicks’ game at Madison Square Garden with 20,000 other basketball fans.

This meant a parent who was unvaccinated could not attend a parent-teacher conference in person. It was just this week that New York City public schools lifted the ban on unvaccinated parents entering public school buildings. And so do many of the restrictions impacting young people. The impact to this generation of children continues.

People often ask me why I still care about school closures and other covid restrictions that harmed a generation of children.

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