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Masks on Kids? Be Angry and Enjoy the Video
My wife teaches grade school and middle school kids in the District of Columbia. She confides, shockingly enough, kids’ compliance with the mask mandate is not 100% all day despite endless requisite teacher hectoring. Six hours in the same room means full bio-sharing because classroom air circulation/filtration does not meet laboratory of surgical suite standards. The notion that kids’ already tiny risk from COVID is measurably further reduced by masks is untenable.
Masking kids was a grossly impractical and unscientific gesture done in service to a false narrative in which (a) we are directed to pretend that the risks from COVID are equally shared across all demographic groups and (b) that the chosen range of imposed interventions actually reduce spread. Making parents fearful enough to endorse this evil farce is also a crime.
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Worse, the mask themselves are psychologically damaging. What kind of fear reactions are they embedding in these kids long term?
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might think that was part of the purpose.
It’s a long piece. Please read it. Then strike out in rage at the mask cult.
Masks are a disgusting and abhorrent thing to do to little kids.
I can’t imagine what kind of adults are doing this to children. Making children laugh and smile is the fun part of being with them.
There’s a great scene in Michener’s Hawaii when children arrive on the island. I’ve forgotten why there weren’t any there for a short period. But he describes the joy of their presence perfectly. It should be required reading for the grownups of the world.
Childless adults who hate children.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist that is more than part of the purpose; it is quite potentially the whole point.
Just listening to a sci fi story wherein a conquering empire rewrites the myths of a world to create stories that instill fears in the children, with the idea that a fearful populace is easier to control. Fill them with fear from a young age, and they’ll be easily manipulated for the rest of their lives.
Horrific.
I’m tired of seeing masks on employees of businesses I frequent. It makes me feel sorry for them, and deprives me of seeing a smiling face as I make my purchase . . .
And inherent implication that, “I am dirty and my presence causes problems for others.”
The logic probably escapes the youngest children, but by middle school and high school at least some will get it. The justification for mask mandates is the wearer might otherwise spew forth viruses to sicken others. (If masks were to protect the wearer, there’d be no need for a mandate, as the potential wearer could decide on the risk / reward balance for himself.) So, mask mandates tell the person required to wear the mask that he is dirty and a threat to others. How many kids in recognizing the “I am a dirty problem for others” logic will decide the world would be better off if they weren’t in it. A number of adults certainly absorbed that message in the last two years, leading some to commit suicide and others to drink or drug themselves into a stupor, but maybe not many kids absorb the message that way.
Mental health crises among kids is definitely way, way up.
But yes, for two years we’ve been trained to view other human beings as nothing more than disease vectors. “Keep away! Social distance! Don’t hug Grandma — in fact, don’t go see her at all! No actual human contact, everything by video! Mask up, hide your face! Hide yourself!”
And kids internalize all this — and when it comes from adults in authority over them, schools for example, they naturally feel that there’s something wrong with them.
I found that when I stopped wearing a mask in public, all I wanted to do was smile at people and be friendly toward them. I just wanted to display warmth and connection and show them that the world is a happier place without masks. I wanted to show them normality. And everything was normal for awhile, or getting there. Until Omicron.
So these days when I’m in places where the majority of people are masked up, I find myself nearing a panicked state. I just want to get out of there. I don’t want to make eye contact. I don’t want to interact with anyone. I find myself believing that there’s something mentally wrong with the mask-wearer.
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I received a photo from Tiny Beans of my 3 year old great-granddaughter at her preschool, and about half of the children were wearing masks. It is evidently not a policy of the school, so the masked children must wear them because their parents demand it. I feel very sorry for those poor children being raised by such fearful parents.
If Adler was correct and much human interaction is formed around mechanisms to deal with the impotency of infancy and childhood, think what a mark and what new forms of altered thought processes and ways of perceiving themselves, and themselves in relation to those around them, must be left by being forced to wear masks, to protect others from yourself, to hide your faces, to not being able to see the faces of others, must have on the their subsequent adult psyches.
I think that young people will let the old people die as revenge for Covid.
My hunch is that about 20% of adults are anti-child.
Also, the KN95 masks now required in L.A. for kids are very, very snug and the wire over the nose allows an even tighter fit over the nostrils. It’s tough for me to wear it for very long, and I can’t imagine what’s going to happen to kids who will have most of their face covered, as well as mouth and nose.
If I had a kid in LAUSD I would yank them out. This is child abuse.
It is my understanding that in addition to requiring a tight fit, the recommendation was that nurses not wear them for more than three hours a day. Of course, kids will totally conform to clinical stds.