Im really sad to see that you are willing to sacrifice children (our future) in order to avoid a "bad" flu season.
Who’s sacrificing children? Is this more Trumpy projection?
Making children wear masks and vaccinating them against the virus that mostly doesn't affect them seems like a sacrifice on the altar of "hours lost". I'm not from the USA, and I am not following USA's political scene, so I can't answer your second question.
Before you flame me - I don't think they are to be used constantly, or all at the same time. They are all valuable tools to reducing the pain, suffering, and lost productivity of respiratory illnesses. I'd like to see universal masking in schools during flu season, for example. Limited group of people, limited time, but would happen every year. Maybe there's a trigger for a "bad" flu season.
It's insane to say we should not use things that work because they might be useful in the future. We just need to be smart about how we use all these interventions, WHICH WE ABSOLUTELY ARE.