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1/ These four studies plus real life data in schools should lead education officials to declare masking purely optional in school children. First, an Italian researcher shows higher CO2 in the masked air space for cloth, surgical, & N95 masks https://aaqr.org/articles/aaqr-20-07-covid-0403.pdf
2/ Next, a study looking at whether or not masks significantly increase end tidal CO2 showed in healthy adults the answer is surgical masks do cause mild hypercapnia https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192100029X?dgcid=rss_sd_all
3/ the final study is one demonstrating a long list of reported symptoms in children wearing masks at school all day. These symptoms are physical, mental, and intellectual in nature according to this German study https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-124394/v2?fbclid=IwAR34942Tv15lZ2Pe-ABQ4YyLVYw-o0KN3zWdnqz7fgA8B42y1NvKAOsnamI
4/ last, multiple studies show that being in school has a protective effect regardless of masking policy within the school. In Norway, where children do not mask in school contact tracing demonstrated children were very low risk to spread #covid https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.26.1.2002011
5/ Why we allow physical, mental, and emotional harm needlessly in children due to irrationally fearful adults is beyond me? It’s time to fight for children in America and shame on any adult who is too afraid to put children first.
