CNN host Audie Cornish recalls how COVID caused the radicalization of parents

CNN host Audie Cornish remarked this week that the COVID-19 pandemic caused the “radicalization” of parents throughout the United States.During Tuesday’s episode of “CNN This Morning,” Cornish and several guest panelists – including former Bernie Sanders presidential campaign advisor Chuck Rocha, ex-Homeland Security official Ashley Davis, and The Boston Globe D.C.bureau chief Jackie Kucinich – discussed how the pandemic reshaped politics in this country.“I also think about maybe the – I hesitate to use this word – but kind of radicalization of, say, parents, right?” Cornish asked, naming one of the shifts she saw during that time.The host brought up the topic with Tuesday, Mar.

11 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 U.S.Beyond the human toll, the pandemic also hopelessly fractured this nation in so many ways,” Cornish said while introducing the segment, adding that a recent Pew survey of adults showed that over 70 percent of them believe COVID “did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together.”Cornish pointed to a “mountain of misinformation that triggered distrust in U.S.

institutions,” and followed the point with a video of current Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F.Kennedy Jr.

telling people in 2020 that “a lot” of the pandemic and the government’s response feel “very planned to me.”“The pandemic has changed so many dynamics here, whether we‘re talking about schools, public health and just office culture, not to mention our politics,” Cornish remarked.She then invited the panel to talk about their experiences during COVID.Despite the panel mostly sticking to discussing how their individual careers and personal lives were affected, Cornish steered the conversation back into political territory, noting how the virus and lockdowns were the moment that A...