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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]curious what this mental health condition is that developed suddenly at age 2?  as a mental health provider, we have always had huge waitlists unfortunately.  More of my patients (older than daycare) are nervous about schools going mask optional than about wearing masks.

and fully agree the 3 hours of unmasked lunch/nap is a recipe for covid spread.  that's why I know many people picking their kids up at lunch/nap time. [/quote]

I don’t know anyone at our daycare picking their kids up for lunch/nap.  That’s like half the day- how would parents work?  We’ve had one case in my kids’ daycare classes in 1.5 years, so despite this “recipe for spread”, the doomsday scenario hasn’t materialized.

It’s amazing that in such a highly educated area that parents are nervous about getting rid of useless cloth face coverings that are going off and in all day.[/quote]

People reveal their privilege when they make statements like this about childcare as if the typical family has that kind of flexibility.

Unfortunately the pandemic has normalized parents transferring their anxiety onto their small children.  It has also normalized making broad-ranging assumptions about the needs, temperament, and abilities of other people's children.  We accept a wide range for potty training but expect mask compliance at 24 months. :roll: [/quote]

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[b]
 For low-income parents, no day care often means no pay[/b]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/22/child-care-covid-inequality/

If poorly worn cloth masks are reducing the spread of Covid in daycare they should keep the masks.[b] But that seems highly, highly unlikely.[/b][/quote]

It's variant dependent. The masks on kids worked well for alpha and delta strains. Didn't work great on omicron.

There's also the case of the teachers/caregivers - you can't force them to take off their masks. I expect them to keep on the masks a lot longer than the kids. [/quote]

Could you provide a link to this study?  Because I've been looking for this information for a while now and can never seem to find it.  [b]I've been concerned that the risk-benefits of masking for toddlers has not been properly quantified[/b].  [/quote]

DP that's because it hasn't been. The CDC is more concerned with public relations than it is with providing accurate information. Here is a link to the only randomized study on masking that I am aware of, which was done pre Delta: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abi9069 and the impacts of the very high quality cloth masks they used was negligible.[/quote]

Did you read the study you linked? The conclusion is the opposite of what you just wrote lol  :oops:  :lol:

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CONCLUSION

A randomized-trial of community-level mask promotion in rural Bangladesh during the COVID-19 pandemic shows that the intervention increased mask usage and reduced symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections, [b]demonstrating that promoting community mask-wearing can improve public health.[/b][/i][/quote][/quote]

I know, science is hard. If you actually read the study you'll see depending on how they crunched the numbers the effect of cloth masks was often not statistically significant. Even for surgical masks, the effects were not large. This is pre-Omicron. [/quote]

Tell me how a study of mostly men in one of the poorest countries on earth applies to children in American preschools?[/quote]

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