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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTW I really hate this idea that you have to be on a particular side of the political spectrum to question mask requirements for young children. Stop politicizing masking. This should be about the science. And from what I can tell, there's really not enough science to support masking young children.[/quote]

I mostly agree with you. I can’t imagine masking 2-3 year olds in daycare settings does anything useful to prevent spread. And I am concerned about the impact on speech and social development. But I’m much more immediately concerned about the very strong potential for constant quarantines over the next 2-3 months.

And I think many people are too caught up in a covid mitigation purity test to have honest discussions about the merits and harms of mask mandates on young kids. How quickly does the “Trumper” “death cult” card get pulled when this comes up? Pretty quickly. Yet these people are largely ignoring that the US is the outlier when it comes to mask policies for young kids.

Where I don’t agree is your comment about politicizing masks.  Maybe I agree with your main point, but I’ll note many health measures are inherently public policy matters. You’re weighing benefits and harms for different groups of people against one another. e.g., does a small benefit to masks, which might prevent a small number of grandparents from catching covid, justify the harm to kids? I don’t think so, but I do think there’s a legitimate public policy question there.[/quote]

You're little lecture about public policy is just another way of saying you mostly agree with the other petition but you're too much of a purist to sign it. This is why the right always wins. Everyone on the left wants to go it alone no matter how much common ground they have because nobody else's platform is quite good enough for them.[/quote]

Huh? You’re the one pushing back on just focusing on isolation/quarantine requirements because that isn’t good enough for you.[/quote]

No hon, you are refusing to sign an existing petition. You have posted on an anonymous message board hoping parents will all just do what you want. Good luck. This is not an effective advocacy method.[/quote]

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