You yourself provide source material openly admitting that cloth masks don't do excrement, which is predominately what children under government issued mandates will most certainly be wearing.
I assume you know how to read, so you're just deliberately misrepresenting the articles I posted. Not sure why, but whatever.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/masks-children-parenting-schools-mandates-covid-19-coronavirus-pandemic-biden-administration-cdc-11628432716
FoLlOw tHe ScIeNcE, except of course when "the science" is wholly incompatible with me trying to force what I want onto the actions of others.
Again, the opinion piece you posted is a valid opinion to have about the possible psycho-social and developmental effects of masks during a pandemic, but the opinion piece you posted is quite obviously not an empirical, peer-reviewed source, and in fact qualifies their opinions with the understanding that these issues have not been studied in the context of the pandemic. As you were the one who brought up science, I thought you might be interested in the actual science, rather than opinion pieces and out of context soundbites hastily summarizing other research.
Either way, the only way to reduce psycho-social and developmental effects of a global pandemic for children is to do everything at a public health level to reduce transmission, which includes population-level vaccination or pervasive social distancing and masking - which I assume you support, if you are basing your argument on the current potential emerging childhood development crisis.
Ending the pandemic as fast as possible is the best way to mitigate harm to children, which may or may not include mask-wearing, and I agree that all steps should be taken to ensure that this happens.
