‘They Were Trying to Save Kids’ Lives!’ The View Co-Hosts Battle With Dr. Phil In Heated Exchange About the Impact of Covid Shutdowns

Dr. Phil McGraw got heated Monday on The View while giving his take on the causes behind the spike in mental health issues like depression and anxiety in school children.

McGraw claimed the mental decline began around 2008 with the advent of smart phones when kids “stopped living their lives and starting watching people live their lives.” He explained:

And so we saw the biggest spike and the highest levels of depression, anxiety, loneliness, and suicidality since records have ever been kept. And it’s just continued on and on and on, and then Covid hits 10 years later, and the same agencies that knew that are the agencies that shut down the schools for two years. Who does that? Who takes away the support system for these children? Who takes it away and shuts it down?

And by the way, when they shut it down, they stopped the mandated reporters from being able to see children that were being abused and sexually molested and, in fact, sent them home and abandoned them to their abusers with no way to watch and referrals dropped 50 to 60%.

Sunny Hostin countered, “There was also a pandemic going on and they were trying to save their lives.”

“They were trying to save kids’ lives,” Whoopi Goldberg agreed. “So, remember, we know a lot of folks who died during this. People weren’t laying around eating bonbons —”

“Not school children,” McGraw shot back.

“You know what? We’re lucky. Maybe we’re lucky they didn’t, because they kept them out of the places that they could be safe because no one wanted to believe we had an issue,” Goldberg retorted.

Ana Navarro asked, “Are you saying no school children died of Covid?”

“I’m saying it was the safest group,” McGraw answered. “They were the less vulnerable group, and they suffered and will suffer more from the mismanagement of Covid than they will from the exposure to COVID, and that’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.”

Watch the clip above via ABC’s The View.