The Atlantic mag comes out strong against masking kids!
The Case Against Masks at School: "Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit." - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
The Case Against Masks at School: "Districts should rethink imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit." - The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"We reviewed a variety of studies—...some cited by CDC as evidence of masking effectiveness in a school setting...to try to find evidence that would justify CDC’s no-end-in-sight mask guidance for very-low-risk pediatric population... We came up empty-handed."
Other studies—not randomized trials—have looked at the effects of masks in schools, and their results do not support pervasive, endless masking at school.
Recent prospective studies from Greece and Italy found evidence that masking is a barrier to speech recognition, hearing, and communication, and that masks impede children’s ability to decode facial expressions, dampening children’s perceived trustworthiness of faces.
Research has also suggested that hearing-impaired children have difficulty discerning individual sounds; opaque masks, of course, prevent lip-reading.
Masks may also hinder language and speech development—especially important for students who do not speak English at home. Masks may impede emotion recognition...This fall, when children were asked, many said that prolonged mask wearing is uncomfortable and that they dislike it.
"Imposing on millions of children an intervention that provides little discernible benefit, on the grounds that we have not yet gathered solid evidence of its negative effects, violates the most basic tenet of medicine: First, do no harm."
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