It's actually an Opinion piece and not a report by "Johns Hopkins."

Nevertheless, there is a serious issue here with the apparent (obvious) ability of the child and adolescent population to fight off Covid more effectively than the adult and senior population. By now we should have enough data to adjust the public health response.

Also, if one of the primary reasons for masking at school and on-line learning is to protect the teachers and other adults in the system, then perhaps the more effective approach is to ensure that the adults are either vaccinated or sign waivers accepting the risk of working unvaccinated. Put the responsibility on the people most likely to require more extreme protection methods.

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Posted by lsupride87

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Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:13 am to TBoy

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Nevertheless, there is a serious issue here with the apparent (obvious) ability of the child and adolescent population to fight off Covid more effectively than the adult and senior population. By now we should have enough data to adjust the public health response.

Also, if one of the primary reasons for masking at school and on-line learning is to protect the teachers and other adults in the system, then perhaps the more effective approach is to ensure that the adults are either vaccinated or sign waivers accepting the risk of working unvaccinated. Put the responsibility on the people most likely to require more extreme protection methods.

This

Masking children, especially 2 year old kids, is absurd. Its laughable human beings are coming up with this

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Posted by LoveThatMoney

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Posted on 7/22/21 at 9:26 am to TBoy

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Also, if one of the primary reasons for masking at school and on-line learning is to protect the teachers and other adults in the system, then perhaps the more effective approach is to ensure that the adults are either vaccinated or sign waivers accepting the risk of working unvaccinated. Put the responsibility on the people most likely to require more extreme protection methods.

Isn’t this more or less what’s going on? Teachers are getting vaccinated because they like teaching in person. Requiring kids who are 6 and over to wear a mask while in school probably isn’t much of a burden, though I do wonder at the long term psychological effects of such a requirement.

I think most schools are going with in person, masked learning. And the masking seems to be simply to prevent (as much as reasonably able) a potential spread event that spirals off into a bunch of kids bringing it home.