The direct effect of COVID-19 on kids is not the issue, but the fact that they can spread it to vulnerable adults, including their teachers, parents, and grandparents, and whoever they infect could infect even more.
This has and will continue to cause lots of older people to die, even if the kids themselves remain mostly unharmed.
As for the government's power, see what they did in WW2. They had major propaganda campaigns to get everyone on board (like "Loose Lips Sink Ships", Presidential "fireside chat" addresses, and propaganda posters everywhere, etc), a united and determined Congress, and actual leadership that helped the entire nation become aware and engaged with the war effort.
If there was this kind of leadership, media effort, and peer-pressure today as there was during WW2, along with laws and actual enforcement against non-compliant anti-maskers, then you can believe there'd be a hell of a lot less anti-maskers even trying to get out of wearing a mask, never mind staging mass anti-mask protests (with Presidential encouragement!).
The political bickering, selfishness, and incompetency in the US has already resulted in literally hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and will probably cause hundreds of thousands if not millions more.
While I'm not against mandatory wearing of masks while in public(when necessary), I feel they should have been distributed by emergency services, or placed on pallets in supermarkets, at gas stations, like it happened with telephone books and yellow pages in the past. Same goes for disinfectant. Why should I have to pay overblown prices for that stuff?
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The direct effect of COVID-19 on kids is not the issue, but the fact that they can spread it to vulnerable adults, including their teachers, parents, and grandparents, and whoever they infect could infect even more.
This has and will continue to cause lots of older people to die, even if the kids themselves remain mostly unharmed.
As for the government's power, see what they did in WW2. They had major propaganda campaigns to get everyone on board (like "Loose Lips Sink Ships", Presidential "fireside chat" addresses, and propaganda posters everywhere, etc), a united and determined Congress, and actual leadership that helped the entire nation become aware and engaged with the war effort.
If there was this kind of leadership, media effort, and peer-pressure today as there was during WW2, along with laws and actual enforcement against non-compliant anti-maskers, then you can believe there'd be a hell of a lot less anti-maskers even trying to get out of wearing a mask, never mind staging mass anti-mask protests (with Presidential encouragement!).
The political bickering, selfishness, and incompetency in the US has already resulted in literally hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths, and will probably cause hundreds of thousands if not millions more.
While I'm not against mandatory wearing of masks while in public(when necessary), I feel they should have been distributed by emergency services, or placed on pallets in supermarkets, at gas stations, like it happened with telephone books and yellow pages in the past. Same goes for disinfectant. Why should I have to pay overblown prices for that stuff?