[TameAntelope]

Because the Covid mortality risk for children is already with masks, compared to without masks for the flu.

Also, there are considerations other than specifically a child's death that are relevant here, like who that child can spread it to and what negative longterm effects surviving COVID-19 carry, neither of which are as pronounced or unknown as with the flu.

But you knew that already, didn't you?

[nradov]

According to the CDC the COVID-19 infection fatality rate for children is 0.002%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Children can spread the virus to adults, but adults who want to be vaccinated have been for months now. And since everyone will be exposed anyway it hardly matters who does the exposing.

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

[TameAntelope]

How many children are there in the US? I'll let you pick the number you'd like to multiply by 0.00002, to get the number of children you're okay with killing.

[nradov]

It's easy to act morally superior and make cheap emotional arguments for when you're not the one who has to make hard decisions. All lives have value, but no life has infinite value. You can't seriously expect the majority to endure perpetual mandates and restrictions just to provide some limited, temporary protection to a small minority who are vulnerable due to risk factors like obesity.

https://reason.com/2022/01/03/cdc-covid-19-children-hospital...

And in the long run it won't make any difference anyway. Everyone will be exposed regardless of whether or not schoolchildren are subjected to mask mandates. So what's the point of continuing the charade?

https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646

[TameAntelope]

I absolutely can expect the majority to endure a minor inconvenience, if that minority they're protecting is a thousand innocent children in a given year (you didn't pick a number, so I will, 78 million children).

And the point is to lower the curve, not avoid exposure.

But, again, you know all of this, you just don't care. Shameful.

[jimmyjazz14]

Children actually have around a ten times higher chance of drowning than dying of COVID, so should we close all the pools and lakes? No we don't do that because we realize as humans that life is not without risk, in fact risk is what makes life worth living. I have children and worry every day something bad might happen to them but I let them take risk and live life because I know that's the only way that they will grow and be happy.

[TameAntelope]

We do close all the pools and lakes to children who can't swim, or who swim unsupervised. We literally do not let children swim freely in random bodies of water. It's a huge deal; we hire lifeguards, teach them methods of operating safely in bodies of water, there's all kinds of equipment a child can wear while in the water to prevent drowning...

This isn't a great analogy for you, because it pretty thoroughly proves my point that masking is a very reasonable thing to do, compared to the litany of structure we put around children swimming in pools.

I was a lifeguard at a summer camp for christsake, what a terrible analogy. I literally worked to implement the many systems we use to keep kids safe in bodies of water.

[jimmaswell]

> minor inconvenience

The impacts on their development shown in the article and rest of the comments are much more than a minor inconvenience

[TameAntelope]

The impacts are a price worth paying.

[kareemm]

> You can't seriously expect the majority to endure perpetual mandates and restrictions just to provide some limited, temporary protection to a small minority who are vulnerable due to risk factors like obesity.

Who is saying the mandates and restrictions are perpetual?

[jdminhbg]

> Because the Covid mortality risk for children is already with masks, compared to without masks for the flu

This is false, which we know because we can measure the fatality rates for children in unmasked locales, and they do not differ from those in masked locales.

[TameAntelope]

Too many confounding variables, those measurements are useless.

[jimmyjazz14]

okay, then please by all means, cite a source showing definitively that mask themselves reduce the likelihood of a children dying from covid.

[TameAntelope]

I already have, all over this thread.

[xigoi]

The mortality of a virus is not affected by whether you were wearing a mask when you caught it.