This explains the mystery of the CDC "science brief" that contained no science supporting the mask guidance and excluded the CDC's own most relevant study, which found no significant effect of student mask mandates.
CDC aided and abetted teachers unions (ineffectively!) trying to minimize their members' already microscopic post-vax COVID risk over the social/emotional health and language/communication development of children.
Ample! is one link, refs endpoint-driven ecological studies from last summer (fall/winter data showed no mask effect so none ever updated) and mechanistic stuff with mannequins assuming a larger article size than respiratory aerosols. And hairdressers!
Keep cloth-masking kids, because the Bangladesh study found no reduction in symptoms in villages with adults given cloth masks, and a small reduction (only in age 50+) in villages with adults given surgical masks. This is an argument *for* child-masking?
The school closures, the masks, the cancellation of sports and activities... the years and months of denying kids normal life was for *absolutely nothing*.
The same people who were 100% wrong about school closures are sure as ever about forced child-masking. No surprise there. But why is anybody still listening to them???
You'll be shocked to learn McElyea is suing the last hospital system he worked at for revoking his medical staff membership and clinical privileges. oscn.net/dockets/GetCas…
Apologies; link I used was not permalink and shifted with cache.
It's important to note that CDC's own death certificate analysis of 2020 pediatric death certs found that 35% of the deaths in the COVID count has causes of death not plausibly related to COVID. cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…
Biden admin, for stupid political reasons, is asserting that what *most of our allies do* -- not masking schoolkids -- is a civil rights violation.
Rather incoherently, only if parental opt-out is a state policy. No alleged violation if the same policy is at the local level. So problem is no local control. Except in states with statewide mandates. That's fine.
This despite child-maskers producing no evidence of benefit (appeal to authority is a fallacy, not evidence) and refusing to conduct a quality trial of their preferred intervention for 18 months and counting.