Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
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#2The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#3Reading this meta-analysis, I wonder how well it would stand up to the independent bias review they used to exclude studies from their findings.
It certainly reads like it has an axe to grind (see Introduction and below).
Although there are certainly populations of children and adults that suffer disproportionately from masking (whether due to respiratory, auditory, or psychological issues, or just from being so young that the mask soaks through in minutes), my overall experience with elementary and middle school aged kids during the early years of the pandemic was that they found masking easy and didn't really care about it. They were thrilled to be in-person with each other.
Of course, their masking practices was not ideal, they often forgot them or wore them wrong, or used less effective materials, but the act of masking itself wasn't generally a big deal.
Our community has a huge Let Them Breathe presence, but even here it was the adults who were making all the anti-masking noise. The kids just didn't care.
I do wish we had better data on efficacy of masking mandates. This review doesn't bring any new clarity.
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#4The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
On the contrary, reasonable healthcare providers (who weren't vying for Likes, Shares, TV spots, Op-Eds, and/or book deals) knew back in 2020 that The Real Evidence wouldn't come out until years after it was over.
Children and the general public may not care, but there's still plenty of analysis that will prove useful to medical and policy decision-makers in the future.
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#5The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
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Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#6The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
On the contrary, reasonable healthcare providers (who weren't vying for Likes, Shares, TV spots, Op-Eds, and/or book deals) knew back in 2020 that The Real Evidence wouldn't come out until years after it was over. Children and the general public may not care, but there's still plenty of analysis that will prove useful to medical and policy decision-makers in the future.
> years after it was over.
And here I am with a family of 5 who are all home sick with covid right now. :)
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#7Reading this meta-analysis, I wonder how well it would stand up to the independent bias review they used to exclude studies from their findings. It certainly reads like it has an axe to grind (see Introduction and below). Although there are certainly populations of children and adults that suffer disproportionately from masking (whether due to respiratory, auditory, or psychological issues, or just from being so youn…
“The kids didn’t care” because they are used to following backwards rules from grown ups.
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#8The study is compelling but I don't think anyone cares about COVID-19 anymore. Nor do I think you'll ever get kids to care enough about masking to do it properly.
Santa Clara County has reimposed the mask mandate in health facilities. Those in power have difficulty relinquishing it.
Re: Child mask mandates for Covid-19: a systematic review
#9I've thought the mandates were stupid right from the start. Don't get me wrong, I am not an anti-masker, and I work in healthcare so I've worn a mask every day for the last 3 years.
But forcing people who do not want to wear masks to wear them is just a waste of masks. They aren't wearing them properly or effectively. Hell, a large portion of people who support masks aren't wearing them properly. This is why you see so many people with masks around their chin or below their nose. Might as well have just thrown the mask straight into the garbage.
Any miniscule benefit from forced masking is outweighed by the oppositionary reaction to being forced to do something you don't want to do. Now you have people protesting masks and purposefully wearing them wrong in the name of "muh freedoms".
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#10Masks were always terrible idea for kids. It only stayed around so long because it became a shibboleth for tribal identity.