And that's why Boris Johnson, our prime minister, is facing demands from doctors and politicians and charities for a wide ranging commission to examine the devastating effects of the pandemic on Children.

Many families were swept into poverty, and there were already four million of them living below the poverty line.

And now, because of the pandemic, they're facing mental health issues like isolation and Children that air just uncertain about their future.

And they've gone on to determine that 1.5 million Children under 18 are gonna need additional mental support.

And these were some of the costs of a lock down that the government just doesn't quantify.

They want you to look at this number every single day of cases, hospitalizations and covert related deaths.

And they don't quantify some of the long term damage of these lockdowns.

And one of those is the mental health of our Children.

The other one is the mental health of our adults.

The other thing is that strain on the NHS for cancer appointments.

The other thing is just the devastating economic circumstances and the long term effects or deep scarring as our chancellor called it off.

What the economy contraction is going to mean to us, and it's important that we start looking at one metric, uh, more metrics than just one.

When you look at this one number every day, that's a daily number, and you're making decisions that are gonna change the next 10 years of our future, from the economy to our Children.

It's just not an intelligent thing to do.

I come from a science background As a trained engineer.

You don't make an entire systematic decision based on one number that rapidly fluctuates, and that's exactly what we're doing now.

So I look forward to this commission taking place and looking into the devastating effects of our Children.

A lot of them are at home and isolated and trying to go to school via Zoom, which we know does not work.

We need to open our schools.

We need to open our economy.

We gotta get London back toe work is what we have to dio.

I know we can do that in a safe way.

We just need leaders with ideas.

We need leaders that innovate, which in my opinion, is why we elect him your job is to innovate and educate and find solutions not to use.

Fear is a weapon, not toe lock everything down with one blunt instrument, as the prime minister called it, a blunt instrument that we continually use toe pound the population and now they're talking about stricter measures.

The labor leader, Keir Starmer, said today he wouldn't rule out stricter measures.

I mean, how do you get any stricter?

They're gonna lock you in their house in your house where you can never go outside.

You cannot worship your Children, can't go to school.

I don't know how we could get much worse.

Another talking about new mutant strains this time to find a way to live with this virus.

That's what we have to do.

I don't think there's another way out of it.

We need new ideas.

We cannot keep this country locked down for six months, 12 months, 18 months or more.

It's just not tenable.

And these studies and ideas on our Children's mental health proves one of the many factors.

There's probably 10 significant factors that we're not looking into with these massive lockdowns, but we're looking at this one number and when it goes down, then I guess we won.

But we lost the entire time.

So leaving your thoughts below do you think lock down justifies the long term damages?

Do you think it justifies the damage to the mental health of our Children?

Do you think it justifies the damage we're going to do to Britain as a whole?

How we gonna pay for our future?

How we gonna pay for the NHS?

How we gonna pay for anything if we stay locked down?

Leave me your comments below as the next mayor of London, I will take London in a new direction and I'll open this up.

We will get us back toe work.

We will find ways of dealing with this virus.

It's gonna be here for a while, so let's start innovating now.