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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For at least the vast majority of preschoolers, COVID is less dangerous than the flu. Masking them isn’t to protect them and anyone who still insists it is is lying. If COVID affected everyone like it affects 0-5 year olds we would never have implemented any measures at all. Kids have been masked to prevent spread to others the whole time. That’s a choice that was made. But to pretend that we can’t unmask now because of the 2-5s themselves? That’s lunacy and a lie. If you have an immunocompromised 2-5 and/or at risk family members living in your house? Put your kid in an N95. That is way more protective than pretend masks on all kids. My husband is an ER doctor and is more or less bathed in COVID all day and no COVID. N95 for the win.[/quote]

So much lunacy and lying in one post, hard to know where to start. Masks even cotton ones assist in filtering out COVID and other particles, and assist in blocking transmission: https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSphere.00637-20. Can't wait to see the receipts of your donations of N95 for kids who can't be vaccinated....still waiting, Mde. Hypocrite.  :oops: Since you are so worried about the flu, I guess you also support mandatory flu vaccines and masking during flu season?  :wink:

COVID is far more likely to result in pneumonia, hospitalization, and serious complications than the flu: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/patient-safety-outcomes/covid-19-in-kids-tied-to-more-complications-than-flu.html. I get that you think that your kids b/c of your privilege are shielded from dying of COVID. But many parents a)  get that their kids could be the unlucky ones; or b) unlike you, actually care about other people's kids.  
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Cotton masks worn like PKers wear them are close to useless. Certainly one N95 >>>>> 2 cotton masks. That's not debatable. If individual kids need N95s because they can't be vaccinated, I'd be happy to spearhead a drive to get donations... but DC could absolutely pay for that for less money than all the COVID theater measures. And no, my point was that we don't require masks for the flu... and we shouldn't; though in terms of science w/r/t 2-5s themselves? Masks for flu makes more sense than masks for COVID. And I would actually support mandatory flu vaccines.

And the study you cite is 18 and unders... I am talking about the 2-5 population. In THAT population, the flu is more dangerous. The study your blurb is summarizing actually says that. So... perhaps read before responding?[/quote]

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