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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like every time the CDC talks about "people" they are not including people under the age of 18.

“We must consider hospital capacity as an additional important barometer,” Walensky told the public during a White House Covid update Wednesday. “We want to give people a break from things like mask-wearing when these metrics are better, and then have the ability to reach for them again should things worsen,” she said.”

Hospitalization in DC is at an all time low. If there every was a time to relax masking in DC based on this statement its right now.  Seems like the Mayor agreed and she relaxed masking - except for students who apparently are not counted as "people"[/quote]

You have immediately been proven correct!

https://reason.com/2022/02/16/cdc-rochelle-walensky-masks-schools-covid-leaked-audio/[/quote]

The argument, of course, is that masks curb transmission, and therefore "help keep schools open".

There are a number of problems with this argument:

1. The evidence that masks, the way kids generally wear them, curb transmission is weak.

2. Even if they do prevent some transmission, how large is the benefit, and does it outweigh the downsides of masks?

3. It's not the virus that closes schools, it's people, adults in this case making the decision. Given that kids are low risk and can be vaccinated, and that adults can be vaccinated and if they still think they are at risk they can protect themselves with an N95, should we keep looking for asymptomatic cases, and should we ever close schools because of "outbreaks" of a virus that doesn't cause more than a cold in the vast majority of kids and vaccinated teachers, and that we have now concluded everybody will meet sooner or later no matter what we do?[/quote]

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