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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid was diagnosed with speech issues during the pandemic. He's receiving services where they are both masked. Obviously I don't have access to the counterfactual here, and as was pointed out, no one has run the study on this yet so we don't have access to that as possible body of knowledge. But this obviously isn't ideal. He has trouble with certain sounds, and masks impede both comprehension and seeing each other's mouths. It's not how anyone would choose to do this if what we were trying to do was provide effective services for children.

He is vaccinated. So is the person providing services. They are both tested regularly. And no one thinks this is going to end before the end of the year even if rates plummet. No one would publicly defend this, because of course it doesn't make sense. My kid is collateral damage. Of course I am not ok with this. [/quote]

Solidarity. [/quote]

+2 and I don't even have a kid in speech therapy. But I have a good friend going through the same thing and it's just insane because the response of everyone involved is "oh well, this is the best we can do." Like just having these extremely low risk people voluntarily take off their masks in a room separated from other people would be the end of the world.

I feel so radicalized by this experience. I don't even know how it's going to shake out, like who I'm going to be when it's all over. This is fundamentally changing my politics and how I see the world.[/quote]

You should get some counseling for that it. It's not normal, to feel radicalized by 'masks', soon you could get triggered by bandaids or sunglasses. It's not rational.[/quote]

What is irrational is expecting a vaccinated child and a vaccinated speech therapist to cover their mouths DURING A SPEECH THERAPY SESSION. Questioning that situation is extremely rational.

If we decide people should wear sunglasses during eye exams, then yes, I will feel radicalized by that, too.[/quote]

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