Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, recently said that requiring children to wear masks is harmful to their health.
A health economist, Bhattacharya recently advised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis not to require children to wear masks.
We should look at something from a cost-benefit perspective,” Bhattacharya said. Before you make any recommendations, you have to think about the costs and benefits of all policies.”
On the issue of masks, he continued, “there is evidence that children are less likely to transmit the virus to adults without masks than adults are to transmit the virus to adults without masks. And we still don’t know why that’s the case with the new coronavirus (CCA virus). This is different from influenza, on which children are very effective transmitters.”
Bhattacharya’s research found that smaller children were less likely to transmit the CCA virus than older children and adults. He also found that children were not as effective at wearing masks because children would keep touching it and also keep taking it off and putting it back on. Several other studies have found that wearing a mask can lead to allergies, breathing difficulties and rejection by peers.
Bhattacharya said that because it is difficult for children to wear masks properly in many cases, and the already limited benefits of wearing a mask are further diminished by the effects. However, people around the child who wear masks can also have serious consequences for the child.
The World Health Organization (WHO) also recommends that children under the age of 5 not be required to wear masks. WHO says that children should not wear masks while playing sports or other physical activities, although they should keep at least one meter away from others because masks can interfere with the learning process at school and can have a negative impact on activities such as physical education classes and meal times.
However, some governors in the United States have now made it mandatory for children to wear masks. In Michigan, Governor Whitmer (Gretchen Whitmer) ordered last week that even 2-year-old children in the state need to wear masks.
Bhattacharya also responded to the recent removal of a video of a roundtable held by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) from the Oil Tube (YouTube). In that video, Bhattacharya and others were the featured speakers and they talked about policies to deal with the Communist Chinese virus (COVID-19).
It’s absolutely shocking,” Bhattacharya said. …… Being in science means weighing different matters with different evidence.” “I think in a healthy discussion, if the tubing thinks children should wear masks, make its argument and show us the evidence, show us your reasoning. We can have a discussion.” And the video can still be seen on other sites.
He added, “They don’t actually want to protect the public from an ineffective way to avoid it. What they’re trying to do is to warn the public that this (not wearing a mask) is a dangerous idea.”
He argued that if the oil pipeline was going to do this, they were morally obligated to actually argue for it. “They just censored it (our argument). They want to create this atmosphere that you shouldn’t hear this idea, as if they’re treating some book that’s been banned. But instead of arguing why a banned book is bad, they just say it should be banned. They are the successors to the ‘book burners’.”
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