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Q&A: What Laws Can Protect Future Generations’ Mental Health?

Day 1 · 2:43:33 · Chris Lewis · Ron Johnson · Dean Allison

  • 👨‍👧 Lewis describes his daughter’s dorm lockdown and grandson’s lost early childhood play as lasting mental-health harms.
  • 📉 Johnson says first step is exposure; legislatively slash emergency powers governments used to control daily life.
  • 🌐 Block WHO treaty power over sovereignty and never again close schools as Sweden’s better outcome showed.

Legislative guardrails against fear-driven lockdowns and lost childhood years.

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Transcript

Chris Lewis · 2:43:33

Senator, I'm just going to go back to my original, to my opening remarks, and because I would be remiss if I only spoke about myself as a political baby. But what I didn't speak about is Um, my daughter, who started, uh, started University of Guelph, and about 2 weeks into it was basically locked down, uh, into her dorm and ended up crying and coming home.

Ron Johnson · 2:44:05

Um, and she's one of many, and that was her first year of university.

Chris Lewis · 2:44:09

University of Guelph, ironically, to be a veteran Canadian. So when you talk about Ivermectin, I got 5 horses at home, I know all what you're talking about. I also didn't talk about my 5-year-old grandson. I heard you were a grandfather, and once you're a grandparent, there's very little better in the world. And I think about my 5-year-old grandson who basically lost 2 wildly important years of his his life. Wildly important. Some of the most important years of his life, because he's an only child and he didn't— wasn't allowed to play with any friends. And so I bring that up, Senator, because although we're talking about all the side effects, and I know I spoke about my mother this morning, what we have not been talking about yet, we haven't spoke about yet, is the mental illness side of what this what COVID did to society for not one year, but close to two and a half years.

Chris Lewis · 2:45:10

And so I think about myself and my responsibility as a lawmaker, yourself as a lawmaker, great folks around here as lawmakers, and I respect you immensely when you talk about get government out of the way and let people live their lives. However, and definitely respect our doctors, there's no doubt about it, but is there— I guess it really goes down to the question of— one last comment before the question. I really don't believe, to save my soul, that if the government came out right now, at least in my region, and said, there's COVID, go home, put a mask on and get the shot, I strongly, strongly do not believe there would be people lining up getting ready to wear the shot or getting the mask or staying home. Um, which is why I believe this is somewhat generational. Because I, I'm not even so sure in my lifetime, and I just turned 50, I'm not so sure that I'm going to see anybody really complying by the law. But then I go back to my grandson who's 5 years old, who never— who doesn't understand it, didn't— he lived through it but doesn't get it.

Chris Lewis · 2:46:16

So my question is, is there anything as lawmakers we should be working on doing today to ensure that future generations I don't even know what it looks like, but it just, it hit me. Anything we should be putting into law to ensure that we don't go through this again, full well knowing there's going to be viruses that come along, there's going to be various things, but I'm just trying to think about the mental health side. And sorry for blabbering on, but that's just where my heart is right now, Senator, if you could expand on or comment.

Ron Johnson · 2:46:50

And again, first step is exposing this so people are aware of it. If you want to do something legislatively, I think you need to dramatically reduce the power that we've given government to control our lives in these situations. Now, again, the world's going the opposite direction. We, America, dodged a bullet under the Biden administration signing onto the WHO's— I can't remember exactly what the thing's called, but I mean, there's a new treaty that's going to really give the WHO all the power power to impose on everybody else. And we dodged that bullet for the time being, but they'll try and do it again. So don't allow a World Health Organization to gain power over, over your, your sovereignty. Um, and by the way, uh, I agree, grandkids, it's all the joy, very little responsibility. But they say grandchildren are our parents' revenge on their children. If you find it, it's, it's hard raising a kid. It was really hard during COVID And as I said in my opening statement, you know, the teachers, they, they could take the time off.

Ron Johnson · 2:47:51

They lobbied hard so they didn't have to do their job. And of course, when Sweden didn't lock down schools, remember how Sweden was excoriated, how they were ridiculed and vilified? They had far greater success on COVID than America did. And again, the psychological harm, I mean, listen, fear is an incredibly powerful motivator. And those government officials that, that wielded fear to gain that power, I mean, that was the whole purpose of my May 2020 hearing with Johnny Denis was to, you know, don't be afraid. I mean, be aware. So if you're elderly, if you have certain comorbidities, yeah, this could be deadly. Take precautions. Patients, if you have an experimental gene therapy, vaccination, fine, you know, offer it to the vulnerable, but give them the full information. Make sure that Pfizer doesn't lie about their, their studies. So again, that's why you need a covert reckoning.

Ron Johnson · 2:48:52

You've got to take a look at all the bad decisions made. If you're going to pass legislation, make sure that they— you don't give them the power to make those same types of bad decisions in the future.

Dean Allison · 2:49:07

Okay.