My kids really don’t mind wearing masks. They really just don’t care, they don’t even think about it. Sometimes we’ll get home and they’ll just forget to take their masks off! Like, for a really long time! They just got used to wearing masks when going out, pretty quickly into the pandemic. Young kids are adaptable. :)
I’m not really sure what your question is getting at. There’s no sense in directly comparing my need for a mask to my kids’ need for a mask. It’s not like we only own one mask and need to fight over it…
For what it’s worth, it wasn’t my decision, but I am very happy that everyone in their school has to wear masks indoors. The benefit of reducing in-school COVID spread seems to me to overwhelmingly outweigh the (trivial) costs of making kids and teachers wear masks. I think that the prevailing COVID rates in the community would need to be very low indeed—maybe 10× or 100× lower than today—before I would endorse having kids in school stop wearing masks, at least until there’s a vaccine available for kids.
Have you considered the cost and benefit of masks worn by your six years old child?
Is he getting bigger benefit than you?
Are his costs smaller than yours?
My kids really don’t mind wearing masks. They really just don’t care, they don’t even think about it. Sometimes we’ll get home and they’ll just forget to take their masks off! Like, for a really long time! They just got used to wearing masks when going out, pretty quickly into the pandemic. Young kids are adaptable. :)
I’m not really sure what your question is getting at. There’s no sense in directly comparing my need for a mask to my kids’ need for a mask. It’s not like we only own one mask and need to fight over it…
For what it’s worth, it wasn’t my decision, but I am very happy that everyone in their school has to wear masks indoors. The benefit of reducing in-school COVID spread seems to me to overwhelmingly outweigh the (trivial) costs of making kids and teachers wear masks. I think that the prevailing COVID rates in the community would need to be very low indeed—maybe 10× or 100× lower than today—before I would endorse having kids in school stop wearing masks, at least until there’s a vaccine available for kids.
How many cases of COVID were detected in your child’s school in one year?