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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there are no o developmental or emotional drawbacks to teachers and daycare workers being masked, I wonder if it will continue post-covid.  It would certainly cut down and on colds and flus among the teachers.  [/quote]

Masking the teachers would protect the kids from the teachers like a surgeon’s mask protect the patient from the surgeon or a masked dentist from his patient. I wouldn’t be opposed if daycare childcare providers stayed masked (if there was no harm to the babies).

I’m hoping waiters and food preparers keep masking.  [/quote]

Do you not fact check anything? Surgeons and dentists do not mask to protect themselves and others from respiratory pathogens.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480558/

"An increasingly prevalent belief, in favour of mask usage, is the idea that they also confer some degree of protection to the operating staff from patient-derived infectious material.18 Most obviously, they can act as a physical barrier against blood and bodily fluid splashes during surgery. One prospective study revealed that facemasks prevented blood/bodily fluid splashes that would have otherwise contaminated the surgeon’s face in 24% of procedures.19 The incidence of blood/bodily fluid splashes varies substantially between settings and between individuals. The risk is modified by the role of surgical staff (lead surgeons are at higher risk than first assistants, who in turn have a higher risk than scrub nurses),

"The use of surgical facemasks is ubiquitous in surgical practice. [b]Facemasks have long been thought to confer protection to the patient from wound infection and contamination from the operating surgeon and other members of the surgical staff. [/b]More recently, protection of the theatre staff from patient-derived blood/bodily fluid splashes has also been offered as a reason for their continued use. In light of current NHS budget constraints and cost-cutting strategies, we examined the evidence base behind the use of surgical facemasks.

Examination of the literature revealed much of the published work on the matter to be quite dated and often studies had poorly elucidated methodologies. As a result, we recommend caution in extrapolating their findings to contemporary surgical practice. However, overall there is a lack of substantial evidence to support claims that facemasks protect either patient or surgeon from infectious contamination. More rigorous contemporary research is needed to make a definitive comment on the effectiveness of surgical facemasks."

So you are advocating for masking along the lines of social class, or do you want to include children who lack agency as well?

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You’re saying the same thing as the PP.  Like surgeons, masking teachers would protect the kids.  [/quote]

DP. No, PP is saying surgeons use masks to protect against blood and bodily fluid splashes, not respiratory pathogens. Obviously, a surgeon is more at risk of splashes of infectious bodily fluids like blood, than a daycare teacher (urine is sterile and poop is unlikely to splash on a teacher's face, though I'm sure it has happened).[/quote]

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