How America Betrayed Its Children: David Zweig

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This is the 30 minute TV version of Jan Jekielek’s interview with David Zweig. The longer-form version was released on Epoch TV on April 24, 2025.

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David Zweig is a journalist and author of “An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions.” His book is a searing criticism of the policy to close schools across America during the COVID-19 pandemic. The result: Major lags in education achievement, a mental health disaster, and so much more that simply cannot be easily quantified.

“How do we track what happened to that kid who could have gotten into college and instead is doing something else now? We don’t know exactly the kids who were lost, who just stopped going to school entirely.”

And what was it all for?

“They were sacrificed for nothing,” Zweig says.

CHAPTER TITLES
0:00:00 - Introduction: A World-Altering Event
0:00:44 - The Failure of Pandemic Decision-Making
0:02:17 - The Hidden Costs of School Closures
0:05:36 - No Benefit: The European School Experience
0:09:46 - Contextualizing COVID-19 Risks for Children
0:12:53 - Science vs. Theory: The Pandemic Epistemological Divide
0:14:13 - Political Tribalism and Pandemic Response
0:17:54 - The Systemic Failure of Experts
0:21:58 - Anxiety of Freedom: Decision-Making in Uncertainty
0:22:50 - Reflections on Truth and Historical Narrative