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Does anyone here believe that mask wearing by a significant caregiver does not delay the speech development of babies and toddlers?
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I believe that across a population, mask wearing by a significant caregiver causes more speech delays that would happen without masks.  I do not believe that mask wearing causes speech delays in every child.  I choose to roll the dice on speech delays by sending my children to daycare with masked caregivers and I’m not advocating for them to be unmasked since I am more concerned about illness in the caregiver than increased risk of speech delay for my children but I would love to see some population level studies on this to actually see what the relative risks actually are.[/quote]
How exactly would you design a study that would account for the endless variables?[/quote]

Absolutely no idea!  Science especially social science where you can’t do really controlled studies is endlessly baffling to me.  I’m making my decision right now based on no data just like everyone else; hoping someone might some day figure out how to have data but I’m not holding my breath tbh.[/quote]

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