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[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

[b]"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
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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 totally believe that you spent no more than five minutes thinking about this and copying these links to buttress your agenda. As for the childcare center study you cited, here is a link to Vinay Prasad (who evaluates medical studies for a living) going over how poorly designed it was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivIEnk2sbIg[/quote]

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