I always love reading your thoughtful pieces, Bari, however on this one, the masking of our children should be of grave concern. And the testing of this vaccine on children and babies even more so. Just watch the video of the teenage athlete who passed out at the finish line while wearing a mask. I'm on Substack (started here this past month) and I just wrote about this in my essay: https://khmezek.substack.com/p/happily-slipping-into-our-straightjackets. There are ill effects, mentally and physically, on children wearing masks. There are studies on this, but we shouldn't even need studies to logically figure this out. Children are wearing masks eight hours a day at school, including when they play outside. Personally, I don't think it's too drastic to call this child abuse. I had a grandmother tell me recently her twelve year old granddaughter is so terrified of breathing the air that even when she leaves school and is walking home with her grandmother with no one around, she refuses to take her mask off. She is already at the age when girls tend to suffer from self-doubt. I'm a grandmother myself and I am thankful my daughter and her husband will not mask or vaccinate their children. My daughter has been living in Slovenia for the past year and her boys who are in preschool run around mask free. They are moving back to Los Angeles and the only preschool they could find that didn't mask children was a private Christian one, so that is where they will send their kids. All the others say children must be masked until they are vaccinated.. I find this to be horrific. (And this is already too long to explain why but I do in my essay) In 1996 I founded a creative writing program for incarcerated youth in Los Angeles and worked with youth for many years both inside government facilities and within the community. I've devoted much of my writing to speaking out about the drugging of our children. In this piece that I just wrote I go into that history, how we have so easily succumbed to drugging our children and using them as scientific guinea pigs and how this has led to a passivity in simply believing what we are told by drug companies and government and handing our children over to them. Sorry for the lengthy comment but it's a subject I feel passionately about.