Medical Institutions Ignore The Obvious Damage Mask Mandates Are Doing To Children’s Language DevelopmentChildren are at low risk to Covid-19. Masking them is not worth the huge sacrifice of retarding their linguistic and emotional learning.
By Scott Sturman
February 28, 2022
This month the Centers for Disease Control changed its age-based language proficiency milestones. The new standard stipulates that 75 percent of children should be able to say 50 words by 30 months rather than the previous standard of 50 percent of kids saying 50 words by 24 months.
This relaxation of standards is in sharp contrast to childhood language guidelines from the Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, Cleveland Clinic, and Kaiser Permanente, all of which stipulate children should be able to say 50 words at 24 months. The American Speech Language Association notes that speaking fewer than 50 words at 24 months constitutes a language disorder, and other authorities maintain that by 30 months a toddler should be able to say as many as 450 words and employ complex language skills such as use of pronouns, plurals, negation, and tenses.
The CDC fails to acknowledge that masking children is likely worsening linguistic and emotional development, as masking nullifies the crucial contribution of facial expression. The inflicted damage could be irreparable. We humans are social creatures, who communicate through complex languages and facial gestures. Our personalities are ingrained in these unique expressions, which impart visual messages that words alone cannot convey.
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Facial expressions provoke a variety of cognitive processes, including gestures that elicit rapid responses and ostensive ones that signal a willingness to communicate. A hidden face deprives one of the most basic aspects of humanity and the ability to constructively interact in social settings. Face masking children constitutes a sacrifice on a scale that can only be made in response to a danger of proportionate magnitude.
Medical Articles Ignore Data to Argue IdeologyYet children are far less likely than adults to suffer Covid-related illness or death. The statistical occurrence of the latter is nearly zero. A Johns Hopkins study corroborated this finding in healthy children, and its lead author noted that the CDC failed to publish pre-existing medical conditions in children’s deaths purported to be caused by Covid-19.
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Source:
https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/28/medical-institutions-ignore-the-obvious-damage-mask-mandates-are-doing-to-childrens-language-development/
