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 The planet where the studies are from, on masking and schools.

Doesn't your critical thinking skills question why this       "conclusion" is at odds with literally everything we know about indoor spread?[/quote]

For a few reasons.  First, children are not adults when it comes to COVID.  Second, there are specific downsides to children wearing masks all day that most adults do not share, i.e., children are developing foundational skills in emotion recognition and speech and literacy; adults are not.  [B]These experts aren’t demanding all masks off now, they’re asserting that we need to think about under what conditions we could remove mask mandates in schools.  That’s completely reasonable. [/B][/quote]

+1, especially to the bolded[/quote]

Definitely think that's reasonable. But so much of the noise comes from people who are going to howl about masks no matter how much the pandemic is raging. It's tough to have the discussions about the reasonable conditions for unmasking when you have those lunatics shouting at school boards and whatnot. [/quote]

Sure but that does not mean we should not have the discussion at all, which is the position taken by the anti toolkit posters here and on Twitter.[/quote]

Right.  It's a dodge to say we can't have these conversations because a few people are unreasonable.  More people are reasonable, and this thread has largely been reasonable, so let's have the conversation.

When might we think about making masks optional for kids in school settings?  Under what conditions?[/quote]

The problem are elected leaders and school boards. They need to cling to one extreme side of the mask debate for fear of being labeled as a Trumper. The politiziation of masks has poisoned the debate and our ability to get a reasonable policy in place. I'm not sure how we overcome that other than with grassroots efforts.[/quote]

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