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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s stupid; there’s no real risk to children; no evidence showing that asymptotic people spread the virus; there’s documented studies showing increase physical risks of masking (bacterial infections, etc.); and there are potential emotional and social risks to children.

Why—exactly, do elementary school children need to wear masks?

WheRe iS tHe scIencE?[/quote]

Plenty of evidence that shows the Delta variants:
1. Are spread by asymptomatic vaccinated people;
2. Children are hospitalized (ICU) at same rates as adults once they contract the virus.

On the contrary, masks are perfectly safe if you wash them regularly or buy disposable Medical grade ones. 
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This is incredibly shady and what consuming media without understanding any context does to a brain. Kids who are UNVACCINATED carry the same risk of hospitalization as VACCINATED adults. It's incredibly rare to die from COVID after vaccination. Kids literally have a 99% smaller rate of mortality without a vaccine -- fewer than 350 deaths out of 600,000. Thank goodness, right? Or perhaps we're immune to good news at this point. Vaccines are amazing and doing their job to protect adults -- similarly to the protection a child already has regardless of vaccinate status. Have whatever opinion you want, but don't insist others orient their behavior based on misunderstanding of the data. Less pearl-clutching, more educated analysis. [/quote]

Pediatric deaths have topped 400 actually.  (Just add numbers in the links you provided).  In any case, Francis Collins, who is a good guy heading up NIH summed this issue up best on the morning show with Jake Tapper today, addressing the Desantis rule prohibiting masks in school:

And we do know that kids are capable of getting pretty sick. We have lost about 400 children who have died from COVID-19 since this all started. And kids can also get long COVID, where they don't maybe that sick with the acute illness, but then end up, months later, with difficulties with brain fog and fatigue that interferes with their school performance.

So, this is not to be just dismissed as a zero risk. And, of course, kids also live in homes. And there may be people in those homes who are perhaps immunosuppressed, and they could bring home the virus and cause a bad outcome.

So it just makes common sense in a community where the virus is spreading -- and that's pretty much all of Florida right now -- to do everything you can to prevent that, which includes mask-wearing for kids in schools, even though it's inconvenient. I think maybe, when you look on the scale of things that we're asked to do, being asked to wear a mask is perhaps not quite the huge challenge, burden that sometimes is being portrayed. Kids are pretty adaptable.

https://transcripts.cnn.com/show/sotu/date/2021-08-01/segment/01

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There isn’t zero risk to much, but .00065 is pretty darn close. Vulnerable populations have access to three different vaccines that offer amazing protection. People with compromised immunity have to navigate the risk from this virus like every other one in existence. On the flip side, what data shows a near zero risk to a child’s social and emotional development? I’m not going to make blanket statements about kids adapting because I know many have. I also know many who haven’t thrived, who are struggling to navigate early learning with their and their teacher’s face largely covered, including those with special learning needs. My kids shouldn’t have to adapt to soothe the anxiety of adults who choose not to get vaccinated or who send their kids to school under the delusion than they are safe from sickness.[/quote]

Francis Collins said in areas of high transmission, kids should wear masks in school to avoid acute and chronic illness, including "long covid" (and the admittedly rare chance of death). He said nothing about mask-wearing as a tool to soothe adult anxieties. This is about protecting children who aren't eligible for vaccines.  Unfortunately, adults, who have chosen not to get vaccinated, have contributed to spread, making the community less safe for unvaccinated children.

I get the point about masks affecting language development.  Last fall we contributed to our parish school special masks for the foreign language teachers so that children could see the mouth of the teacher.  I forgot which brand we purchased but they are similar to this https://www.theclearmask.com[/quote]

Francis Collins is a kook.[/quote]

Oh really?  Was appointed by Pope Benedict to serve the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/17367/human-genome-and-embryology-experts-named-to-pontifical-academy-of-sciences[/quote]

His recent comments speak for themselves.  Don't let the media keep you in a state of fear and panic.[/quote]

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