Academic standards are in free-fall across the country
It’s mid-August, summer’s almost over, amazingly enough. Kids are going to resume their education not just in this country, but around the world. In Ireland, as kids began to return to school authorities faced a choice. Now, the most obvious course would be to blindly accept guidance from self-described public health experts in the United States. That’s what many countries have done as they sought to come up with a COVID policy. And, following the United States would mean, among other things, forcing children as young as two to wear moist paper burkas for eight hours a day in the classroom. The other option would be to follow the science, and the Irish chose that course.
The Irish commissioned their own research on masks. And here’s what they found: According to the Irish Health Authority, masking children in the classroom is not a legitimate medical precaution. It’s child abuse. Masks can, “exacerbate anxiety and breathing difficulties.” They impair, “the development of human communication and language skills, particularly for very young children.”
Now, we know from previous research the masks can also contribute to high levels of carbon dioxide in the human body, and that’s especially true in children. Masks often become breeding grounds for dangerous bacteria. That’s conclusive in the studies. It’s possible that masks even affect facial development. In other words, there are very serious downsides to forcing masks on children. The question is, what’s the benefit of doing it?