Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
by InitialLastName on Monday July 11, 2022 @10:12AM
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Anecdotally, from speaking to the teachers in my orbit, the young kids weren't the problem when it came to masks. The parents, OTOH...
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Re:Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
by ch4s3 on Monday July 11, 2022 @11:59AM
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Small children never needed masks and weren't forced to wear them in any other OECD nation. Masks are terrible for language acquisition and social development. Also as I pointed out above the CDC even states that small children ~10 and under were never a major source of spread. Wasting effort putting masks on toddlers was social capital that could have been better spent on useful mitigations.