Kids wearing masks in their front yards/strollers
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Anonymous
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I haven’t seen one kid in a mask. Plus doctors are telling us not to put a mask on young kids as it makes them touch their faces too much.
I’ve never had a kid young enough to be in a stroller keep a hat on much less a mask! |
Anonymous
wow, whereabouts do you live? |
Anonymous
| No. And children under 2 shouldn’t wear them at all. |
Anonymous
| My 3 year old would never keep a mask on. That's just the reality. |
Anonymous
| We put bandanas on for our neighborhood walk, ages 7, 5, and 2. The kids thought it was kind of fun. Something different as they’re getting bored of the same old neighborhood walks. It’s only traumatic if you make it seem scary. |
Anonymous
| My children's extended family from another country (their mother is dead from a disease that probably could have been prevented by lifestyle choices during childhood and young adulthood that same family made) has been talking to them and keeps talking about wearing masks and insists on sending them "children's masks". They apparently are in the mail. The kids know I wear an N95 mask to go to the grocery store but I do view this as excessively stressing out children. Like, they go bike in the street by themselves and do not play with friends. Why on earth would you even suggest that they wear masks. It's kind of like someone telling you the air is poison everywhere. |
Anonymous
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Children under two should not wear masks - they can’t breathe in there.
I have only seen one kid on a mask and that was in Costco and he was about nine. Seemed “normal” there. I wear one to the store. I don’t wear one around my yard or neighborhood and neither will my kids. If someone tries to shame me, I would shame them back! Louder or more panicked isn’t always right! |
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Anonymous
Has nothing to do with anxiety. It is a health issue. Stay in your lane people. Don't assume you know all the details. Some street corners can get busy and there are other people who are oblivious or who purposely try to get in your space. The kid could also be immunocompromised. Really just say in your lane and don't make judgemental comments like the one I just replied to. It is beneath you. |
Anonymous
| ^^^ "Belgian-Dutch Study: Why in times of COVID-19 you can not walk/run/bike close to each other." |
Anonymous
See, to me this is an argument for taking your 15 month old out in one, so you can practice. Because if the first time you put one on your kid is the time that you go to the ER then there's no way they'll keep it on. |
Anonymous
See, PP, the air IS poison everywhere! |
Anonymous
| I live in the city. We can’t really avoid seeing anyone. My |
Anonymous
JFC, thank you! People on here are parroting the same truthy untruths reply after reply and claiming those who disagree have mental health issues. We don't know how much the virus can travel, from a runner clearing their throat. We don't know how many of the neighbors and joggers from 2 miles away running past our front yard are infectious. We don't know whether our kids are infectious. We never know when a kid or adult neighbor will come up to our fence and strike a conversation. We do know it does travel, we do know the spread in China before the lockdown was probably driven by asymptomatic transmission. There are too many of you throwing out wild-ass guesses, packaging them as common sense and repeating each other ad nauseam in this thread. Regardless, calling mothers mentally ill for making a different risk assessment from yours is bad. I'll admit, when I was rehearsing my grocery delivery disinfection procedure the last week of February, I did second-guess myself a little. When I was looking at my modest stash of Lysol, wipes, and hand sanitizer mid-February, I did second-guessing myself a little bit. Even though it would have been reasonable to get 2 or 3 times that much, if I wanted to avoid buying more through the summer, it did look like a lot back them, when the store shelves were still full, and it "was just a cold" and we "had a better healthcare system than those places" and we "were more sanitary and washed our hands better". I disagreed with all those truthy untruths then. I've experienced the contrast between my risk assessment and others' for the past two months and I haven't been wrong yet. I do think that some parents are effing up pretty badly right now. They need their kids out of the house for their own mental health, and it makes them make some really irresponsible choices. They let their 7 year olds, of course without masks, play with their friends out of sight, riding bikes at full speed across and into alleys, while we have fewer and faster cars zooming into and out of alleys at full speed. They're crossing paths with unmasked adults on narrow sidewalks. Calling the more cautious parents the mentally ill ones is not helpful to the purpose of the lockdown. |