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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thought this was going to be an old thread that someone revived.  I can’t believe there are still people talking about masking kids at school.  Do you follow the news at all?  Masks are not great for kids.

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You think masks aren’t good for kids because it bothers you. [/quote]

No, I'm pretty certain that research supports the position that masks are harmful to kids at this point.[/quote]

PP here, back with an example.  Here is an excerpt of an article published by NPR:

Masks can interfere with young children's brain development

Numerous scientific papers have established that it can be harder to hear and understand speech and identify facial expressions and emotions when people are wearing masks. (Some of these studies also suggest workarounds, which many practitioners are using).

These are critical developmental tasks, particularly for children in the first three years of life.

The United States is an outlier in recommending masks from the age of 2 years old. The World Health Organization does not recommend masks for children under age 5, while the European equivalent of the CDC doesn't recommend them for children under age 12.

Manfred Spitzer is a psychiatrist and a cognitive neuroscientist in Germany.

He published a scientific review of evidence on how masking could impact children's development.

Spitzer says the negatives of masking are particularly clear for very young children. He believes that young children's caregivers should be unmasked as well.

"Kids need to train up their face recognition," he says, and they need to see full faces to learn to identify emotions as well as to learn language. "Babies were never designed just to see the upper half of the face and to infer the lower half; even adults have a hard time doing this."

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-take-masks-off-children-in-school

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