[rhino369]

There has been little thought given to non-covid health and developmental issues caused by mitigations. My friends had to go to private school to get a school to accept a doctors note that their kid shouldn't wear masks because he's having a hard time with speech development. The kid already had covid--a low grade fever for two days.

[beerandt]

The speech development and language problems are going to be a huge issue, in hindsight, if not already.

Not just kids learning verbal skills and to speak with masks on, but non-verbal-receptive kids, who rely more on facial expressions and visual cues.

For them, it's a double-whammy, because you're delaying their speaking and language/ listening skills further, but also depriving them of the alternative forms of communication that they rely on to cope with the primary deficits.

And that's before getting into whatever effects decreased socialization overall will have.