I am not a child psychologist, but I can't imagine children reliably wearing their masks correctly or being able to learn normal social interaction while wearing them. So what is the point of this recommendation other than fear-mongering? It's certainly not based in science.
Hmmm.
What of it? Have you ever been around children ever? They can't not fidget with anything they hold/wear. They learn how to interact with people, including facial cues, from the adults around them. Hard to do that with a mask on.
Credentialism is a worse disease than COVID. A whole industry of people with billions of dollars of schooling and degrees understood COVID worse than people with anime avatars on Twitter who thought "wait, doesn't this sound like bullshit?"
You went, within the span of two sentences, from being a non-expert who can only imagine how it would affect kids (i.e. someone who is ignorant of the science) to being confident that the bunch of doctors who specialise in childrens' care have not based their policy on this science you are ignorant of.
Hence: Hmmm.
It's not like this is some topic where everyone with credentials agrees. Multiple European countries have recommended against masking children -
https://ajlamesa.medium.com/children-in-much-of-europe-will-be-going-maskless-at-school-this-fall-b244e4f035adIf there were a topic where everyone educated about the issue believed masking children was important, perhaps I'd think about it differently. But when you have disagreement among educated people on the topic and basic practical life experience says it's a bad idea, no, I care not about my lack of credentials or having spent years researching the topic.
If you're working on a house, you don't need a degree in physics or structural engineering to know that you want to check where the load bearing studs are to make sure you don't accidently weaken them. As I do not raise kids myself, I haven't criticized anyone I know in real life for how they raise their kids and will not do the same here. My main point in this thread has been that what you want to do about COVID is a personal decision, and that includes the ability to make decisions I don't agree with.
But, as a public policy recommendation, I see nothing to make me believe recommending masking kids is a good idea and a couple major obvious problems.
This whole discussion about who's qualified to talk about what is a pissing contest that can only end badly. My memory of the olden days is faded but I know there are multiple people in this thread who can say they're qualified to talk about certain things.
Rather than waste time with this, is there something you have to say why masking kids is good? I did actually read your meta-analysis on masking, even if I ultimately found things in it that made me question its credibility. I would certainly read something else if you posted it here.