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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]mom and teacher here.  masks are NBD.  at all.  the people who care so much about masks are not the kids at school.[/quote]

Masks are big deals for kids that are in speech therapy and need to see mouth and tongue placement. [/quote]

Masks are needed for immunocompromised individuals that can't be vaccinated. So your child can't see someone's mouth and tongue and has trouble speaking, while my child can die because of covid. Some of you are so selfish.[/quote]

Talk about selfish.  You think the entire education population should sacrifice their own education and social development, mental health and overall well being in an fruitless attempt to maybe, slightly reduce risk of exposure [although no data shows that it actually does] to a few - even while those few still are free to promote their own social life and mental well being by eating out in restaurants, going to bars, and generally participating in society while also protecting themselves by vetting vaccinated, wearing masks, and having priority access to the entire suite of medical treatments if they do get sick?  Read the room. The rest of society is done with this false narrative that we somehow need to continually make sacrifices to "protect the vulnerable".  Its not working and its not fair.   [/quote]

Nobody's education, social development or mental health is suffering because of masks.  You are ridiculous.

-NP[/quote]

No, the PP is absolutely right. Only in America would anyone argue for the continued masking of all kids to protect an individual's special need. And only in America would someone advance the false narrative that masks have no costs to children's education and social development.[/quote]

You are literally just making things up.  Masks are effective in reducing the spread of COVID and they do not have any serious social/emotional/educational impacts on children.  Google is your friend. I found these in under 5 minutes:

"A recent study (Ruba and Pollak, 2020) investigated the implications of mask-wearing on inferring emotions from facial configurations using a sample of children aged between 7 and 13 years old. They revealed that children could make above-chance inferences about emotions even when parts of the faces were covered, concluding that masks are unlikely to produce serious impairments of children’s social interactions."  
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33362251/

"While there may be some challenges for children incurred by others wearing masks, in combination with other contextual cues, masks are unlikely to dramatically impair children’s social interactions in their everyday lives.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243708

"In this survey study of 6654 childcare professionals from all 50 states, child masking at baseline (May 22 to June 8, 2020) was associated with a 13% reduction in program closure within the following year, and continued child masking throughout the 1-year study period was associated with a 14% reduction in program closure."
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2788457

Safety of masks:

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/11/3935
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55451-w

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I am glad Google helped fill your agenda. I am also the PP about masks preventing my child from receiving proper speech therapy. While I appreciate your ability to use Google, I will go with what the specialists at Children's Hospitals have told me. Masks are a disservice to children with speech issues. They cannot see lip and tongue placement. For 2 years now my child has received less than mediocre speech therapy in DCPS. Our neurodevelopmental doc has mentioned that we should possibly give virtual speech lessons another try; however, virtual sessions 3x a week for 30 minutes is hard for a child with special needs. The doctor recommended virtual as masks would not be worn during sessions (obviously) and my child could see proper lip and tongue placement.

For what it's worth, my child was part of a Pfizer covid vaccine study and he's been vaccinated for over a year now. So you're welcome for helping out immunocompromised children. [/quote]

Yeah, it's hilarious that the PP is trying to put someone in their place by condescendingly recommending to use Google to find a small, flawed, ideologically motivated study, believing that it proves once and for all that masks don't have *any* negative effect on children. Nothing makes you look more foolish than thinking this question is solved for all time because Google spit out a link to a "study" - even more so when you are apparently unaware that your two links are both references to the same study. I also love how the abstract of that study says that the WHO recommends masks to slow the spread of Covid, while conveniently glossing over the fact that the WHO does explicitly *not* recommend masking children under 5, and masking under-12 year olds only in specific circumstances.[/quote]

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