Exactly what harm does wearing a mask cause and exactly who is acknowledging that???
The article also touches on distancing as one of the key measures helping reduce flu and colds, and this is probably the one most responsible for the huge surge in children's psychiatric visits and suicide attempts over the past year, which somehow didn't rate a mention in NPR's discussion of the cons.
Other cultures and countries have adopted mask fairly common mask usage and their children are not suffering. If anything there children are scoring much better in academics then most us states. There are more nuances then that.
Mask when crammed together in public transit? Mask when walking around crowded stores?