A Very Important New Study on School Masking Has Been Released

With a fantastic set of authors

School masking has undoubtedly been one of the COVID’s most infuriating issues.

The case for masking by the general public has quite obviously always been weak, considering there was no pre-pandemic planning that suggested masking would ever be beneficial:

If Masks Work, Why Didn't We Plan to Use Them?

But the case to mask children has always been significantly worse.

Even Professor Francois Balloux, a self-described COVID “centrist,” who is rarely prone to extreme declarations or hyperbole, admitted recently that the masking of young children is “the most bizarre public health policy ever:”

Prof Francois Balloux @BallouxFrancois

@macroliter @ajlamesa @TheEliKlein @AJKayWriter I *really* don't think masking toddlers was understandable. This remains to me the most bizarre public health policy ever.

There is obviously a tremendous amount of research and data proving that mask mandates are ineffective, especially in schools:

School Masking is Completely Unsupported by the Data

Yet the policy continues in many parts of the country.

Just recently, a number of locations in California brought back forced school masking:

But a new study out provides some important new evidence with regards to the efficacy of mask mandates.