twitchy.com By Brett T.
We put “academic” in our headline instead of “doctor” to make it clear that Ashley Ruba is a post-doctoral student studying developmental psychology. And she and The New Republic have good news: they’ve looked into what masks do to kids and found that there’s no evidence that masks harm children developmentally. That reminds us of a post we did on the American Academy of Pediatrics saying there were no studies showing that masks on children harmed language development — note they didn’t say masks don’t harm language development, they said there were no studies proving they did.
“Kids are able to determine from facial expressions alone the emotion that someone is likely to feel even when they’re wearing a face mask,” says Dr. @ashleyruba.https://t.co/FUUCqmzwjj
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) February 12, 2022
The subhead of the piece reads, “Face masks keep kids safe from Covid-19 and keep schools open. There’s no evidence they harm kids developmentally.” Melody Schreiber reports:
