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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]unreal how effective the government gaslighting on the overselling of mask effectiveness has been. you would willingly do emotional harm to your own child for public health mandate with no scientific basis, one we've known for 40+ years has little to no effect.

indoors, healthcare settings - sure masks can provide a small to moderate benefit, but outdoors? on kids who won't even be wearing it properly anyway? give me, and your poor child, a break. [/quote]

So teach your child to wear the mask properly.

Outdoor is not magic. Sure, don’t mask up on an empty street, but wear a mask on a playground. It’s common sense. 
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Actually. Outdoors with COVID is magic. It dispersed it immediately and makes it pretty much impossible to spread. If you read Zeynep Tufecki she’s been trying to track down any spreading events that were truly outside with no indoor or tented component and so far zilch. Doing anything outdoors isn’t zero risk but it is EXTREMELY low risk. And to another posters point CDC and Mayo and any other authority that deems playground play as high risk has no evidence or leg to stand on.  [/quote]

We still wear masks outside (when near people) but I agree this is largely true. With caveats-- we still have poor contact tracing, so we can't prove that more people didn't get it outside. In fact, as a literal statement that's guaranteed to be true. That said, even outside, for sure being very close to others while shouting/singing for an extended period of time would be riskier, so it makes sense to mask or forego an activity like that. Most of the time kids playing outdoors WILL get close, let's be honest, even if they avoid actually touching-- but unless they're holding an all-day singing wrestling tournament, the risk should be very low. [/quote]

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