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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Less closures, less lost learning, less Covid, and no evidence of harms. But I’m sure we will find reasons to discount this too.

https://mobile.twitter.com/meganranney/status/1486906696903634955[/quote]

Here is my reason to discount this - I was able to open this yesterday and it said 13-14% less incidence of closure - but is this because of the local rules surrounding closures?  I have ES kids, but my daycare co-workers are getting hit with quarantine after quarantine because their children need to isolate for 10 days after an exposure.  Local rules often don't require quarantine if there is masking.  When talking with friends, they are in favor of masking because they don't want so many quarantines.  Basically, to say we need masking in schools because of quarantining and closure rules does not mean we need masking due to the risk of covid to children.  Also, the study underneath stating that masks aren't harmful says that "We are unaware of published research on the long-term effects, if any, on intermittent masking."   Being masked all day, indoors and outdoors in DC, is not intermittent.  It also uses as evidence that children were not more afraid of masked versus unmasked health care professionals.  Seriously, the baseline is whether or not children fear the individual in a mask?  While using the profession that should of course use masks?  I think we need to stop treating schools like they are hospitals.[/quote]

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