| https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/masks-protect-sch... Also the minor detail that countries with masking cultures - like Japan - have relatively excellent Covid stats with minimal deaths. Honestly, we're through the looking glass if we're even pretending there's any kind of debate about this. Masks work for adults. Period. There are tens of papers proving that now. Any good faith web search will find them. For every cherry picked paper "proving" they don't there are ten much better designed studies proving they do. If masks work for adults, they work for kids - not just to cut spread between kids, but also between kids and adults, and especially between kids and vulnerable adults. The UK has decided to have an outbreak of political psychosis over this, and there are already significant - double digit - percentages of both teachers and kids off sick with Covid in many schools. Risks to kids are relatively insignificant compared to the trauma of lost school friends, lost hours from school, lost relatives and - in too many cases - lost parents. The promotion of irrational and human-hostile anti-masker anti-vaxxer nonsense really needs to stop. |