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Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom. The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are ki

Yeah well my 7 year old hates wearing pants but I still manage to get her clothed for the classroom. The only kids I know that have a problem with masks are kids with parents that have a problem with masks. It's not a kid problem its an adult problem. Kids are adaptable but adults are whiny little assholes that are set in their ways.

mbg721 5y ago
If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness, I'd treat them with the same gravitas that I give to graham crackers. One person's "set in one's ways" is another person's "doesn't change with the wind".
- defterGoose 5y ago
  Well that was...some words.
- craftinator 5y ago
  > If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness What if they'd been invented hundreds of years ago to stop the spread of disease, and prevented millions of deaths since then? Curious that you use a weak and hyperbolic analogy when the reality is so readily available.
  - hazza_n_dazza 5y ago
    i had speculated months ago that perhaps cultures that wear veils and mouth coverings originally did it for health purposes
    - nradov 5y ago
      If that was true, why are only women forced to wear veils? In reality the veils are all about controlling women's sexuality.
      - hazza_n_dazza 5y ago
        you will see that I avoided referencing specific cultres and made claims about the past. too much racism / elitism on HN in some threads, although those issues need to be discussed too.
  - mbg721 5y ago
    Well, you can call me foolish, but I don't think COVID is severe enough to be worth long-term realignment of cultural norms around wardrobe. Most people agree with me, which is why so much of the debate has been based on panic.
WaxedChewbacca 5y ago
yumraj 5y ago
Exactly, kids simply reflect what they hear at home. Go to any store, chin-maskers are with maskless kids, while parents with N95 masks are without kids or with fully masked kids.
joshuahughes 5y ago
Don't kid yourself. Children are suggestible and easily manipulated by adults on BOTH extremes of this polarising argument.
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rayiner 5y ago
Just because kids aren’t actively complaining doesn’t mean it’s not bothering them. My kid is a conformist Asian like me, and we’ve been going along with masking this whole time because her private school is full of democrats. But she broke down crying last fall when she found out that we’d be doing another year of masking. It’s not just the inconvenience of the masks, or the eating outside on the ground, but the whole exercise of disrupting normal life for these kids: no field trips, no birthday parties, etc. We’re into the third year of this reduced childhood.

mbg721 5y ago

If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness, I'd treat them with the same gravitas that I give to graham crackers. One person's "set in one's ways" is another person's "doesn't change with the wind".

defterGoose 5y ago
Well that was...some words.
craftinator 5y ago
> If pants had been invented in 2018 in order to cure horniness What if they'd been invented hundreds of years ago to stop the spread of disease, and prevented millions of deaths since then? Curious that you use a weak and hyperbolic analogy when the reality is so readily available.
- hazza_n_dazza 5y ago
  i had speculated months ago that perhaps cultures that wear veils and mouth coverings originally did it for health purposes
  - nradov 5y ago
    If that was true, why are only women forced to wear veils? In reality the veils are all about controlling women's sexuality.
    - hazza_n_dazza 5y ago
      you will see that I avoided referencing specific cultres and made claims about the past. too much racism / elitism on HN in some threads, although those issues need to be discussed too.
- mbg721 5y ago
  Well, you can call me foolish, but I don't think COVID is severe enough to be worth long-term realignment of cultural norms around wardrobe. Most people agree with me, which is why so much of the debate has been based on panic.

WaxedChewbacca 5y ago

yumraj 5y ago

Exactly, kids simply reflect what they hear at home. Go to any store, chin-maskers are with maskless kids, while parents with N95 masks are without kids or with fully masked kids.

joshuahughes 5y ago

Don't kid yourself. Children are suggestible and easily manipulated by adults on BOTH extremes of this polarising argument.

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rayiner 5y ago

Just because kids aren’t actively complaining doesn’t mean it’s not bothering them. My kid is a conformist Asian like me, and we’ve been going along with masking this whole time because her private school is full of democrats. But she broke down crying last fall when she found out that we’d be doing another year of masking. It’s not just the inconvenience of the masks, or the eating outside on the ground, but the whole exercise of disrupting normal life for these kids: no field trips, no birthday parties, etc. We’re into the third year of this reduced childhood.