re: Outlook on mask wearing mandates in Catholic vs. non-Catholic private schools

I firmly believe that in children masks are useless. I really think they're fairly useless overall, unless youre symptomatic.

There is also excellent data that household spread is very, very, very rare (like 1%) if the positive index case is asymptomatic. Now, this is pre- the PCR cycling change and reporting change for asymptomatic patients, so that may have some bearing, but nonetheless, asymptomatic spread is basically non-existent, so asymptomatic masking is a sham perpetuated by the powers that be. They can say what they want, but it is.

Their argument will be "well, everyone needs a mask, because people aren't truthful about their symptoms." Maybe, but this is still not useful for the population as a whole. I digress