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Europe’s CDC: We Do Not Recommend Masks in Schools for Kids Under 12

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Francesco Abbruzzino, The Uncensored Report, LLC

 

 

We’ve already noted on several occasions that England has not required masks in classrooms since last spring – and its have children weathered a major Delta wave quite successfully. The country’s mandate-happy government lifted masking requirements in schools based on data. Indeed, hospitalization rates among children (exceedingly low) dropped, compared to the Alpha variant wave. Here’s the EU’s version of the CDC offering guidance on masks in schools, which they do not recommend for younger children:

 

 

“Europeans, Australians and others are coming to different conclusions than the CDC about masking children and yet the position of the CDC is treated as infallible in much of the press,” observes writer Zaid Jilani. The CDC has not acquitted itself in such a way as to credibly claim anything close to infallibility throughout this pandemic, and other countries are going a very different direction on school mask mandates, based on experience and information. Why should CDC’s insistence that kids as young as three mask up be treated as sacrosanct, with those preferring other policy options assailed as “anti-science” or even anti-children’s health? Allied nations with advanced public health systems disagree, as do many American doctors. But in his appallingly partisan, Afghanistan-avoiding COVID speech yesterday, President Biden cynically framed this issue as a black-and-white matter of science versus ignorance. Of right and wrong. Of pro-child versus anti-child:

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