The World Health Organization recommends a cautious approach to masking kids ages 6-11 and advises against masking 5 and under for any circumstance. Most of the world follows this advice, except our CDC which shamelessly advises masking 2+.
Here are school masking ages in Europe
Here are school masking ages in Europe
This work was my own research where policies were publicly reported. Some may have changed. Where U.S. schools often take a one size fits all approach, we are an exception. More countries do not default to masking kids in classroom settings in primary schools.
While the CDC and many local jurisdictions have toddlers and preschool children masking, most of the sane world follows the WHO advice of not masking younger kids and has varying policies of primary school kids ages 6-11.
The media would have you believe the U.S. policy is rule
The media would have you believe the U.S. policy is rule
Florida took the lead at banning mask mandates in schools of any kind. Some other states have attempted to follow. This is painted as the extreme outlier, but we are more of an outlier to the rest of the world in trying a one size fits all approach to every grade level.
One final note about the original graph is that some of these countries have masking policies in primary schools where kids must wear masks in the hallways or on buses, etc., but do not have to wear them all day when sitting in their classrooms.
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