I'm sympathetic to your views about government policies manipulating which items get studied (see: previous conservative Canadian government muzzling scientists who made comments about oil)
I also agree that personal anecdotes from trusted parties are more valuable to my decision making than "data" — but those are personal anecdotes, not anecdotes from anonymous Internet personas.
We aren't your friends and we don't know you. Why should we trust you if you are vaguebooking about something that is a common conspiracy trope?
While we’re all internet anons yapping, you shouldn’t trust me. What I implore however, is that if you or someone you share a school with develop a savior complex and start to push for involuntary masking of your children, you should damn sure make time to find some actual boots on the ground to have a good long discussion about how they personally saw those measures affect development during covid.
Curious what they'd say about the effects of long covid amongst children from repeated covid infections. Seems like fatigue, brain fog, dizziness, gastrointestinal issues and heart palpitations is probably not great for learning either.
Even if you do elect to trust the government mandated studies more than the special education teachers directly involved in the situation, the very study the parent cited attempting to discredit me also reaches the same conclusion as me: masks cause developmental damage and their use must be carefully considered, especially as it pertains to forcing young children who can’t say “no” to comply.
