Members of Congress Question Why CDC Recommends Masks for Children as Young as 2

epoch times ^ | 22 April A.D. 2021 | Zachary Stieber

[lightman]

bicameral group of legislators is questioning why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends children as young as 2 wear masks.

The CDC first recommended that children aged 2 years or older wear masks in March 2020, advice that many states based their masking rules on. In January, President Joe Biden signed an executive order that all airports, trains, and many buses follow the CDC’s masking recommendations.

“The implementation of these recommendations has had serious consequences for some Americans. Multiple parents of young children have been removed from flights, and in some instances, permanently banned, from future travel on the airline they were flying due to their toddler’s refusal to wear a mask,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and the other lawmakers wrote to the CDC’s director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.

“These unfortunate events have occurred despite the parents’ best attempts to have their child cooperate with the mask requirement, which is a struggle millions of parents have faced this past year. For parents of children with disabilities, compliance has proved almost impossible, resulting in increased social isolation and negative mental health consequences,” they added.

The CDC’s advice is among the most strict in the world. In a number of European countries, children under 11 years old do not have to wear masks.

Legislators noted that scientists and studies have repeatedly noted the lower rates of COVID-19 infection and transmission among young children.

Given that evidence, they asked Walensky to provide the basis for the CDC’s recommendations, including specific studies the agency used, and asked if there were plans to update its recommendations on mask wearing as new information emerges.

Thirty-two Republican lawmakers signed the letter, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Rep. Rick Crawford (R-Ark.), and Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.).

The CDC did not respond to a request for comment.

Walensky was not questioned on the masking guidance during a virtual briefing she took part in on Friday.

Some experts have also wondered why young children are being made to wear masks.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford University told The Epoch Times in a recent interview that a cost-benefit view of making children wear masks shows little benefit but much harm, noting that children have unique developmental needs that are impaired by wearing masks and being around people donning the coverings.

The World Health Organization recommends no masks be required to be worn by children up to 5 years old and that policymakers weigh different facts when mulling whether to impose mask requirements on children between ages 6 and 11, such as the intensity of transmission of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.

Others have pushed mask wearing for even young children.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, for instance, says that children aged 2 and older should wear masks in childcare, at school, and any other places they cannot stay 6 feet away from each other.

Methods for getting children to wear masks properly include letting them choose the style of mask, giving them breaks from wearing a mask, and regularly cleaning the coverings, according to Dr. Susan Coffin, an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Parents can consider face shields as a mask alternative.

[lightman]

Masking kids = Government sponsored child abuse

[lightman]

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!

[cranked]

Especially when the collection of idiots at the CDC for the longest time did not suggest such for children...why all of a sudden? Most of us know why.......

[Norski]

To accustom children to slavery early.
Via parents.

[heavy metal]

never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...

[SaveFerris]

Maybe they can make it so babies are born with masks.

[BobL]

Because 2 year olds are FLU-BROS !!!

(well, they sure seem to be, at least the last time I tried to put a mask on a 2 year old)

[SkyDancer]

Kids that young don’t like things tied to their face.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

It’s to lockdown American families while they ship illegals throughout the country. No parent wants to do this to their child.

[nickcarraway]

They should have masks in the delivery room and put them on before they cut the umbilical cord. Actually, they should have the masks before they enter the room, so the doctor should put them on in utero, just to be safe.

[Blennos]

You should add to your list that cloth masks are worthless in preventing viral transmission.

[Pollard]

Thirty-two Republican lawmakers signed the letter

[sarc] I sure hope it was a sternly worded letter [/sarc]

[Vendome]

Its been 399 days

You are still alive

Ditch the mask

[colorado tanker]

I’d like to put those damnfools in a room full of 2 year olds and see if they can make ‘em wear masks.

[cgbg]

Pedophiles love torturing children...

[alloysteel]

Conformity, man. It is the lifeline that will save structured hierarchies forever.

As if structured hierarchies were the best “solution” for social organization.

Civilization only advances because of the “nonconformists” that continuously think “outside the box”. Sometimes messy, but ultimately, everybody’s life improves, sometimes exponentially.

[I want the USA back]

Unacceptable. They’ve gone too far. The CDC is incapable of protecting us from the chinese virus. Nothing they have done so far has worked. Masks and shots for kids proves they don’t know what they are doing.

[DUMBGRUNT]

Masks for Children, Muzzles for Covid-19 News

https://archive.vn/ghEGf#selection-3537.5-3537.50

Consider also data from Sweden, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in February. Swedish primary schools have been open for in-person instruction throughout the epidemic, no masks required, even when cases were increasing. Of more than 1.8 million children in school in spring 2020 ages 1 through 15, not one died from Covid-19. This study also showed that teachers were at low risk for Covid; they contracted the disease at rates lower than the average of other Swedish essential workers.

[Dilbert San Diego]

LOL. Dr. Fauci as Ayatollah Fauci.

Maybe I shouldn’t LOL. This actually hits close to home.

[Graybeard58]

Maybe they can make it so babies are born with masks.

.......................................................

Don’t give the left any new ideas.