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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS is three and started a five hour a day preschool wearing his mask.  He’s advanced verbally, has zero problem wearing his mask, speaks up clearly, and loves his masked teachers.

I have no clue if the mask offers protection or not but it’s simply not a big deal.

I don’t get parents threatening to bring guns to school if their kid is masked! [/quote]

I mean I am bothered by my 3 year old wearing masks but am not going to bring a gun to school to combat it.  There is obviously a middle ground here.[/quote]

A vast middle ground. I hate constantly being lumped in with violent extremists just because I don't agree that we should be taking every possible Covid precaution at all times (especially if it turns out it doesn't actually protect anyone).

I sometimes feel like there are people in the left (ftr I am on the left) who just wind up proving Fox News and Trump right. If you are unwilling to discuss costs and benefits of a Covid precaution, or discuss whether we should have different rules for very young kids than we have for adults, then when the right comes along talking about fascism and "freedom", it winds up sounding more compelling.

We have to stay reasonable. We need Covid precautions that make sense, are grounded in science, and are feasible for people to follow. Masking is one of those things that's kind of on the bubble. It's really easy, initially. But the longer it goes on the more questions it raises. I think we've hit a critical point with it because now we are asking parents to procure medical grade masks for their kids (and once again asking them to locate these masks and buy them on their own with no help). It's pushing a lot of parents who previously had no issue with masking to start asking questions like: if only a Kn95 is sufficient for controlling spread, why has my child been wearing a cloth mask in school for 2 straight years? Or: if masks are so fundamentally important for controlling spread, why aren't they being provided by schools instead of me spending hours online trying to learn the different medical grades and find in-stock masks somewhere only to get them and discover I got a defective batch or they are too big or small for my kid or they fit but they don't like them as much as the cloth mask and I have to train them on mask-wearing all over again?

If you aren't ready to answer those questions, in good faith and without resorting to "just deal with it, it's not that hard, my kid loves their mask" they you are BAD AT PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY and maybe shouldn't be weighing in.

Please stop making Tucker Carlson, a human shaped pus-filled boil, sound reasonable! [/quote]

Oh my god, yes. I love you![/quote]

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