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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every time I read Twitter I get so angry at these self-righteous people tweeting about how everyone should wear masks because of the "under 5s". GTFOOH. Adults should wear masks to protect other adults who are the population at highest risk of death, severe disease and long term disability from COVID. The under 5s are thankfully not at high risk. Of course I worry about DD getting COVID just like I worry about her getting injured but that doesn't mean I deprive her of social experiences or stop her from running and climbing things lest she hurt herself. She is 3 and is just learning how to interact with people and developing gross motor skills. The current CDC guidance that treats young children the same as an unvaxxed elderly person is nonsensical and harmful to young children.[/quote]

This drives me crazy too. I also think people constantly conflate the [understandably] frustrating restrictions on under-5s, which make being a parent of an under-5 particularly stressful right now, with DANGER to under-5s.

I am all ears if someone wants to complain about how nonsensical quarantine requirements are making it hard for them to work or depriving their kids of consistent childcare settings. It sucks, I hate it too. I’m also interested in how other parents of this age group are navigation the new “masks optional” policies because I definitely feel like mask mandates pose bigger issues for my 4 year old than for adults like me.

But when I see people arguing in favor of masking and other (appropriate!) restrictions because the believe their 3yo is at high risk from not just Covid but a lifelong brain or heart disorder caused by long Covid, I get tired. [b]I honestly think it’s self-centered people trying to make the pandemic about themselves. [/b]And it only makes it harder to craft appropriate policies for this age group. Young kids are fortunately not at high risk from Covid! Why are people so determined to pretend they are? I don’t get it.[/quote]

The few families I know that are very covid cautious and claim they are concerned about their kids were rather isolated pre-covid.  No friend group, usually a SAHM, and a lot of anxiety.  In all of these cases the dad seems pretty chill and like he’s just going along with it all.  [/quote]

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