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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I say this kindly, but you’re being nuts. Breathe.

Your baby will be okay. Really. [/quote]

Not op, but how do you know? Really! Can you cite any research on this?[/quote]

Of course they can’t. Honestly, it’s not the worst thing but less than ideal. Most other countries (I think rightfully) realized that most toddlers won’t keep them, they will take them off to eat and sleep, toddlers are not efficient transmitters, cloth masks are the most ineffective, and kids are together the entire day so masks probably won’t help anyway.

Rob Hughes of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has called out the policy of masking young children. Most countries (aside from Japan and parts of Canada) don’t mask kids until at least age 6, if not 12.

https://osf.io/65tdh/
“The importance of early childhood for the rest of a person’s life is now well understood; what happens in those early moments really matters, and changing the beginning has the potential to change the whole story -including learning, earning and happiness(2). In addition, the centrality of responsive caregiving and interaction -such as that between peers and with caregivers in the home and childcare settings -is increasingly well appreciated, affecting language and social-emotional development and IQ(3).This interaction and engagement is much more than an optional ‘nice to have’ that can be deferred for a few years whilst the pandemic is controlled;the window of ensuring optimal early childhood development is short(4). During this period moment by moment engagement, caregiver responsiveness, and learning of social cues (including by reading the faces of caregivers and others) are crucial for early socio-emotional development, for learning the ‘give and take’ of peer interaction and crucially for developing a ‘theory of mind’(5).  It would be considered grossly unethical to attempt to assess the impact of covering the faces of young children and their caregivers on early childhood development. The potential for harm here is clear, especially when you consider the long hours that many children spend in childcare settings.”[/quote]

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