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[quote=Anonymous]Not bothered at all. My kid thrives at preschool and has no trouble with masks. He does much better when he's at preschool masked than when he has to be home due to covid closures.

I do know some people who claim that masks have lead to delays for their children. In every case of which I am personally close enough to the person to know the full story, the delays are due to factors other than masking. In every such case of which I am personally aware, there were signs of delays present (and ignored) long before covid was even a thing. So, I think at least some of these situations involve parents blaming masks for delays that would have happened anyway. It's much easier to point at masks than to truly interrogate the complex variables that lead to delays.

For some other parents, the anti-masking thing appears performative. It's about showing allegiance to their in-group and identity affiliations. This is the Fox News crowd. Other parents seem to be so stressed out that they just need something to scream about and masks are a conveniently distant target. These are the people who show up at school meetings and threaten to shoot people, imho.

Others are misinformed. You can't tell them that though, because they think having the ability to read the summaries of a few papers in PubMed makes them qualified to challenge anyone who disagrees with them, including public health officials, pediatricians, epidemiologists, and others with decades of familiarity with the issues. This intellectualization of the problem is a way to protect themselves from scary feelings. It gives them a sense of control over an inherently uncontrollable and frightening situation.

Now that I've said all this, I would also say that we simply cannot now know the full range of consequences of the pandemic. I would be shocked if there weren't lasting effects of some kind on our children. Some of those effects make be from "the disease" and some may be from "the cure." We all have to balance the trade-offs as we try to minimize the effects.

In my estimation, the public health authorities have largely gotten it right - or at least, they have been more right than wrong. I would much rather have my kid masked at school - and deal with whatever consequences there are to this - than have my kid not at school at all or suffering the consequences of acute or chronic covid.

And que all the anti-maskers who need to defend their positions.....[/quote]

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