CDC study: masking not effective for school children

>And the adults in their lives have the opportunity to be vaccinated and also protected so we don’t need to worry about transmission.”

This is a complete abdication by the writer of the duty to consider actual reality. The actual reality is that vaccinated people are known to be able to transmit the virus and both vaccinated adults, and minors vaccinated and not are liable to spread it either immediately or ultimately via the chain of infection to the huge population of unvaccinated in America. Moreover these unvaccinated people aren't evenly distributed around the country, they are clustered in Trump country. This means that those parts of the country where most are unvaccinated which will face unique challenges that can't in the short term be solved with an optional vaccine because the parties at risk won't save themselves. We cannot absolve our selves entirely of being concerned about their harm just because they won't. They remain our fellow Americans.

>there are obvious socio-emotional and educational harms from masking children for this unprecedented duration of time.

This really requires a citation

>the onus is on those who recommend masking kids to robustly demonstrate a meaningful benefit

Reasonable studies seem to suggest that masks in help us slow the spread of covid in other settings. Given the nature of the risk I would suggest that the onus would be on those parties to present further research into the proposed socio emotional harm and insofar as mask being ineffective in schools in order to justify us not using such measures while more research is done. A really good question would be why.

Did they have poor fit based on size of face? Did they have poor compliance? We know that decreasing size of initial dose bears strongly on chance of infection. Is the dose in full classrooms so high that infection so likely as to render the utility of preventative measures too small to be measured?

They left out the parts that they couldn't prove presumably because failing to prove that masks work in this study without explanation is vastly insufficient to conclude definitively that masks don't work and if they even vaguely implied that it might be so the anti maskers would be reposting the conclusion into 2023 even if a contrary study came out 30 days from now. They are more measured and responsible than the writer of this article.

CDC seems to have buried the finding that masking and some other common measures don't seem to be effective for children in school. Specifically: "What was not included in the summary was the finding that many of the most common mitigation measures in schools were not effective. These measures included distancing, hybrid models, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and requiring student masking."