no hope how? Hope for what? I have three kids in grades 1, 8, and 10. and they are completely unharmed by the masks. They continue to thrive, as do their friends. They are in sports, clubs, after school activities. They have never complained for a moment about the masks. None of our friends and neighbors. We don't even talk about masks.
The only negatively affected kids in our system are the ones who contracted covid, or their parents contracted it.
What negative effects are you talking about?
This is hilarious. Expected, but hilarious nonetheless. You criticize #feelings over #science and #experts for 2 fucking years, but now you are all about your #feelings over #science and #experts when it fits your narrative.
I love how the immediate response of the usual crowd on here is "my kid wears his mask like a boss and does not complain about it so no issue with learning or development here." Do you let your 3 kids make other health-related decisions for themselves? When they want chicken fingers and M&Ms for every single meal, do you let them? Of course you do, because the 7 year old knows what is best for him. I'm sure he/she is capable of evaluating his learning and development relative to where it should generally fall. You do realize that there is a reason why kids under 18 can't sign contracts, need parental consent for medical treatment, etc.? Because they are not mature enough to make that decision for themselves, and because we are, again, as we have been told, supposed to follow the advice of medical #experts. But hey man, kids don't complain about masks in school so they must be great!
And, again, there is a host of medical evidence that masks on kids hinder development in a wide variety of ways. Here are just a few:
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-take-masks-off-children-in-school (reposting as this does a good job at younger ages)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/kids-masks-schools-weak-science/621133/
Add in that youth drug overdoses are at an all-time high, the youth suicide rate has basically doubled, youth depression and anxiety are at all-time highs, combined with the fact that CLOTH MASKS DO NOT WORK, and anyone who still promotes masking in schools is doing it for solely political purposes.
But since your kids love the masks so much and they should be making their own decisions on life in 1st, 8th, and 10th grades, once the mandates are lifted they are going to continue wearing the masks, right? Little W&B has 11 more years of voluntarily wearing a mask in school since, per your #feelings, it is so beneficial for him and there are no complaints. You'll need to post his 2033 high school graduation pictures with him rocking his mask.