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Jan 29 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
"Masks are not harmful."
Also see attached threads. 🧵
Kids who wore masks were less anxious than kids who never did. jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
Eyes are more reliable and forcing a focus on them may actually enhance emotion recognition.
"In fact, Danovitch points out, children who infer thoughts and emotions based on eyes alone, exhibit greater emotional intelligence."
"...no legitimate study has found any negative relationship between masking and pediatric mental health. In fact, a growing number of studies have found a positive relationship between masking during the pandemic and mental health."
al.com/opinion/2021/0…

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Jan 31
The American--Speech-Language-Hearing Association and The American Association of Pediatrics both say there is no reason to believe children's language or speech skills be negatively impacted by masks. 🧵
h/t @stricken103
healthychildren.org/English/health…
"....there is no known evidence that use of face masks interferes with speech and language development or social communication. Plus, children can still get plenty of face time at home with mask-free family members. " Image
".... there are no known studies that use of a face mask negatively impacts a child's speech and language development." Image
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Jan 31
"After 2 years, growing calls to take masks off come from me, some other moms I found and a pediatrician. But most scientists I asked think masks are no big deal"
So why did this pointless article get published? 🧵npr.org/2022/01/28/107…
It should tell you something that Kerry Dingle, who the opening 5 paragraphs of this article are devoted to, feels the need to say that, though she thinks masks should be optional, she is not “anti-vax” or “psychotic.” Image
Having gotten that out of the way, Dingle quickly moves on to bemoan the “burdening” of little kids with "protecting other people”; namely, "high-risk people." Image
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Jan 29
One 'mo time: Covid is not like seasonal influenza.
* Covid is more transmissible than flu. (NPIs "obliterated" flu but not Covid.
* Covid is more deadly than flu.
* We can care about both.
Nice graphic presentation of flu, pneumonia and Covid from @JusDayDa.
Important numbers on flu and Covid with CDC data.
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Jan 2
The myth of "mask harms" rests on assuming kids need to see entire faces to accurately recognize emotions. In fact, accuracy is sometimes better with masks. In her Substack, @ProfEmilyOster, guru of cost-benefit analysis, ignores mask's benefits & overstates its costs. 🧵 Image
Oster begins by outlining the role facial expressions have in “conveying emotions.” Image
She then considers whether masks impede the reading of facial expression of whether “seeing half a face is almost as good as a whole face.” Image
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Dec 27, 2021
In her latest Substack, @ProfEmilyOster contemplates Covid’s risk to kids under 5 where she carries on her well-established traditions of ableism and a self-centered approach to public health. 🧵
emilyoster.substack.com/p/covid-risks-…
Predictably, Oster begins by bemoaning the sad state of affairs for parents (her) who need to “dispense” with children “to an outside location” (her phrasing, not mine). Quarantines, Oster tells us are “untenable”. Okay, so are pandemics but here we are.
antoniobuehler.medium.com/the-emily-oste…
Oster then moves to addressing a problem she just invented: the exclusion of kids from the world.
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Dec 24, 2021
1.
 This is my Holiday gift; I’m telling my Long Covid story so maybe you won’t ever have one.

Long Covid is like stopping on a road trip. You get snacks and head back to your car. Except your car isn’t there anymore. There’s a different one in your spot but it’s the only one.
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 You look around because maybe there’s someone who knows something but it's dark & empty as far as you can see. Who would you ask anyway? Miles from home, there’s nothing but you and this car. You get in; what else is there?
3.
 But the dashboard has controls you’ve never seen before. You’re not sure how anything works. The windshield wipers come on as a bright sun lifts overhead. It gets dark but there are no headlights; sparks shoot from the front of the car. That’s all the light you get.
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