Hadley Heath Manning, policy director of Independent Women’s Forum, a leading national women’s organization, told The Epoch Times that on the issue of school reopening, people are too concerned with the virus itself while failing to recognize the risks that come with school closures, which is a “serious miscalculation.” “Focusing so much on the risk of this particular disease, I’m afraid, has taken our eye off of the risks, so many other things that come from social isolation,” Manning said during the interview with The Epoch Times’ “American Thought Leaders” program. Manning explained that lockdowns can cause many other risks such as mental health problems, substance abuse, and delayed health care for some elective procedures or chemotherapy for cancer patients, and so on. She suggested that the current response to the CCP (China Communist Party) virus, also known as the novel coronavirus, “comes with a cost not just in terms of human …