CNN Audie Cornish host remembers how Covid caused the ‘radicalization’ of parents

CNN Audie Cornish host noted this week that Pandemia Covid-19 caused the “radicalization” of parents across the United States.

During the Tuesday episode of “CNN this Morning”, Cornish and some guest panelists including former Bernie Sanders Presidential Campaign Advisor, Chuck Rocha, former homeland security official Ashley Davis, and Boston Globe DC Bureau Kucinich-Discho Pandemic in this country.

“I also think of maybe – – I hesitate to use this word – but a kind of radicalism, say, parents, right?” Asked Cornish, naming one of the shifts she saw during that time.

The host brought the topic with Tuesday, March 11th being the fifth anniversary of the World Health Organization declaring Covid-19 a pandemic.

“Now, since then, there have been more than 1.2 million deaths from Covid in the US beyond the human number, Pandemia also unhealthy this nation in many ways,” Cornish said as she introduced the segment, adding that a recent study for adults showed that over 70 percent believe Covid “did more.”

Cornish showed a “mountain of misinformation that caused distrust in American institutions”, and followed the point with a video of the current Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. telling people in 2020 that the “many” of the pandemia and the government’s response feel “very planned for me”.

“Pandemia has changed so much dynamic here, whether we are talking about schools, public health and just office culture, not to mention our policy,” Cornish noted. She then invited the panel to talk about their experiences during Covid.

Despite the panel mainly discussing how their individual careers and personal life were affected, Cornish led the conversation back to political territory, citing how the virus and the blockages were the moment that American parents began to lose trust in public institutions.

“People who were really upset about those school closures and were fighting at home, fighting to be heard. They became a voting block, ”she said.

Rocha agreed, adding, “He exposed many weaknesses in our society because we were not prepared for this. And now you spend ahead for today. What is happening five years later is that you have an explosion of measles in Texas because people do not trust vaccines because of things that are spread online.”

Liberal media outlets have published stories that attack parents about trying to affirm more control over the education of their children’s public schools since the beginning of the pandemic. On one occasion, an opinion of the Washington Post of 2021 written by a university professor and an independent journalist argued that parents “do not have the right to control their children’s education.

Another example was the Washington columnist Post Jonathan Capehert attacking parents as a “noodle” being used to approve an “far -right” agenda in the American education system.

By clashing lawmakers who have defended his parents ‘rights, he told PBS in 2023, “it seems like Gov. Ron Desantis in Florida, to Gov. Huckabee in Arkansas, to the Republican -led representatives room, they seem to have a problem specifically with Trans children … and so when I hear my parents’ rights?”

The Department of Justice under the administration of Biden sent a memorandum in 2021 by directing the FBI to use anti-terrorism tools in relation to parents spoken at the school board meetings against the K-12 curriculum and the agendas they disagreed with.

The National Association of Education (NEA) sent a letter to social media companies around that time, encouraging them to embed “propaganda” about the critical theory of the race that had supposedly stocks “a small but violent group of radicalized parents”.