Yes, I understand that not all adults in their 40s are parents of 10-14 year olds (the dashboard data doesn't list parental status, sadly). And that some 20-29s and 55-64s are parents of 10-14s (though not that many). But I hope you can see what I'm driving at in this plot. 
Reasonable people can disagree about both the meaning and the import of the extremely high infection rate that we're currently seeing in children. I'm not interested in arguing with people who want to say I'm alarmist.
I'll just note that, *given the scale of the numbers*, the following things can simultaneously be true:
1. Most children who get Covid will experience a relatively mild illness AND a large number of children will have long-lasting symptoms, some very serious.
1. Most children who get Covid will experience a relatively mild illness AND a large number of children will have long-lasting symptoms, some very serious.
2. Vaccines are extremely effective AND the consequence of mass infection of children is that many parents will be infected, despite being fully vaccinated.
3. Most of those infected parents will experience a relatively mild illness AND a large number of parents will have long-lasting symptoms, some very serious (some will die).
That being the case, even if the first clause of those statements has been your experience, or is what you prefer to emphasise, the truth of the latter clause should be acknowledged, and should motivate urgent interventions, such as the reintroduction of masks.
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