Forcing children to wear a mask is child abuse. The Left failed children.

I think it's healthy to have a debate on whether kids should wear masks during outbreaks or epidemics as a temporary measure. I don't think it's useful to make sweeping statements that the it's political and child abuse.

 

yawn

 

They went mask optional in May.

That being said, kids are encouraged to mask up if they have a cough (stay home policies only include fever, vomiting, diarrhea), which many do, present company included. I think that's a small positive change from the pre covid era... more courtesy mask wearing.

 

Sadly we are seeing record highs of respiratory illnesses among children this fall/winter.

Like I said in another thread, we seem to have done this completely backwards.

We masked kids when there was little to no threat to them, and now we're pulling the masks off right as the worst pediatric respiratory illness spike in 100 years is taking hold.

I always worried that there would be a 'snapback' moment for all of these 'other' viruses after we dropped most covid protocols for kids... Sure enough, here we are.

 

I blame the lockdowns and closure of schools for that.

Masks (except for N95) as far as covid is concerned appear to be mostly theater,

 

Went through a lot of these citations. A lot of them aren't studies and are labeled as "viewpoints" with titles like *time to go back to school* but when you read the article with that title it says "we don't have enough information".

This is why higher education is important.

 

Which studues?

Here are some that contradict your statement.

https://www.poverty-action.org/publ...-covid-19-cluster-randomized-trial-bangladesh


https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg6296


https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118

 

Most of your links are opinion pieces and the ones that are actually scientific articles are about things like “masks cause acne”. Some of your links don’t work.

If I didn’t know better you just spammed a bunch of links to give the appearance you had more than you did.

 

Lol “natural immunity”…. As if kids are masked 100% of the time.

Natural immunity came with a much lower life expectancy pre modern medicine.

 

lol

 

This is reflexively running in the wrong direction.

Right now there are pediatric respiratory viruses running absolute roughshod.

These viruses are not primarily transmitted via aerosol, but rather through droplets.

Even cloth masks are effective for this purpose.

Just because people were overly cautious during COVID doesn't mean it's OK to go play in traffic now.

 

That's a bad example for a leader to set.

Just stop with "you don't have to wear the masks if you don't want to".

I want to normalize people wearing masks of their own volition, especially during flu season.

Castigating people for wearing them is poor form, you have no idea what any of them are dealing with.