The case against masks at school
General observation from reading the comments - the folks on HN must not have many friends working in medicine for if they had they&#x27;d realize those friends are swamped and burned-out. They&#x27;d also know that pretty much the only condition we&#x27;re treating nowadays is Covid. Surgeries are continuing to be postponed - including surgeries that can lead to worse problems down the road such as removing cancerous tumors.<p>And it gets worse. My daughter is in pre-med. Apparently people are dropping out like flies and not just because of the course load. They&#x27;re watching how medical professionals are being treated and saying screw it! This should concern us all because we&#x27;ve had a marked uptick of medical professionals retiring&#x2F;resigning since the pandemic started and now the pipeline is thinning out.<p>We&#x27;re walking headlong into a disaster and nobody seems to care. And that&#x27;s not even dealing with the problem of Global Climate Change which, guess what? Still hasn&#x27;t gone away and there doesn&#x27;t seem to be much interest in caring about that either, not that there ever was.<p>You can see what our child-bearing aged children think of all this - they&#x27;re not having kids. I don&#x27;t think this is a short-term aberration. We&#x27;re a population literally in decline.