“It is now extremely common in Western democracies for large factions of citizens to demand that any measures undertaken to prevent COVID deaths are vital, regardless of the costs imposed by those policies.

“Thus, this mentality insists, we must keep schools closed to avoid the contracting by children of COVID regardless of the horrific costs which 18 months or two years of school closures impose on all children.”

Greenwald questioned why we use this “rational risk assessment in every single aspect of our public lives,” but not for COVID.

“Why when it comes to COVID, do we throw this rational framework out?” asked Greenwald.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLmLiF4VPns&t=142s