A cultural reflection:
I’ve watched as parents who advocated for school reopening – initially w/ masks (based on early assumptions RE efficacy) have received more chilly reception after later questioning evidence RE masks in schools.
Then this month, @CDCgov sounded like us.🤔
I’ve watched as parents who advocated for school reopening – initially w/ masks (based on early assumptions RE efficacy) have received more chilly reception after later questioning evidence RE masks in schools.
Then this month, @CDCgov sounded like us.🤔
When @davidzweig wrote this still-essential piece on the lack of Randomized Clinical Trials of masks in schools…
Parents were all:
“Well, those $2.99 Old Navy masks slipping down our kids’ faces could definitely have some shortcomings.” 🤷♀️
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Parents were all:
“Well, those $2.99 Old Navy masks slipping down our kids’ faces could definitely have some shortcomings.” 🤷♀️
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Suddenly in December, White House BFF Leana Wen is calling cloth masks facial decorations, and by January…
Now It Can Be Said.
Now It Can Be Said.
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1482133695955931136
And hoo boy I took some grief when I wrote this thread, suggesting that masks interfere with reading instruction.
(Which I have known all along, but even for me, It Could Only Be Said after I had real Q’s about mask efficacy...)
(Which I have known all along, but even for me, It Could Only Be Said after I had real Q’s about mask efficacy...)
https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1421576079861485573
And folks were big mad when moms posted this article…
Because “it’s just one speech pathology practice! This proves nothing about risk to language development!”
And then………
wpbf.com/article/palm-b…
Because “it’s just one speech pathology practice! This proves nothing about risk to language development!”
And then………
wpbf.com/article/palm-b…
… turns out the @CDCgov thought those concerns were legit.
👇👇👇👇👇
👇👇👇👇👇
https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1483418732714246148
For raising questions that the @CDCgov would raise within months, I’ve been called every kind of pejorative.
My favorite is “anti-masker.”
As if one’s position on masks should remain immutable, regardless of context (environment, age, risk profile, downstream impact, etc).
My favorite is “anti-masker.”
As if one’s position on masks should remain immutable, regardless of context (environment, age, risk profile, downstream impact, etc).
Open Schools advocates have been proven accurate time and again… in fact, our positions arguably signal the consensus-slash-CDC position by 3-9 months.
Given this, we have to ask…
Why did so many dismiss and denounce the canaries in the coal mine?
Given this, we have to ask…
Why did so many dismiss and denounce the canaries in the coal mine?
Folks wanna shoot the messengers, but…
https://twitter.com/daniela127/status/1483475815966945282
This thread was about evolved thinking on masks in schools; @davidzweig rightly notes that we could write it about many things.
Kids ≠ superspreaders, school reopening impact on transmission, failures of hybrid model, 3 vs 6 foot distancing, hospitalization for vs with, +
Kids ≠ superspreaders, school reopening impact on transmission, failures of hybrid model, 3 vs 6 foot distancing, hospitalization for vs with, +
https://twitter.com/davidzweig/status/1483661313637236736
I began the pandemic as an advocate for masking in schools, based on the evidence from the adult studies. I didn’t really change course until summer ‘21.
This study was the tipping point. I remain surprised that it hasn’t had more attention.
This study was the tipping point. I remain surprised that it hasn’t had more attention.
https://twitter.com/karenvaites/status/1484125608053559298
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