There is no coincidence this news dropped heading into a holiday weekend with very little surrounding information or context. There is also no coincidence that, suddenly, due to what speech therapists, educators, and parents have seen over the past two years, this is unrelated to imposing Covid lockdowns and masks on schools.
Everyone knew it, but few cared to admit it or do much about it, especially public health bureaucrats like Dr. Anthony Fauci. Parents watched children suffer in virtual schooling and watched the youngest age ranges suffer in their speech and cognitive development due to masks inhibiting visual learning.
Some schools are already lowering standards for kindergarten admission due to the same issues.
Now, the CDC is being forced to reckon with the damage inflicted on children in the name of Covid:
The CDC just quietly lowered the standards for speech in early childhood development.
Now children should know ~50 words at 30mo rather than 24mo.
Instead of highlighting the harmful effects ?s & lockdowns have had on children, the CDC just lowered the bar for milestones. pic.twitter.com/11QraOgFbJ
— BowTiedRanger (@BowTiedRanger) February 18, 2022
There isn’t much context provided, either, just lower standards and little explanation as to why. The only obvious and blaring causative reason is the damage done to education since March of 2020 when children were interrupted in the middle of their school or prevented from entering a school at very young ages.
It’s akin to child abuse, especially since children aged 0 to 18 are rarely susceptible to Covid-19 in a severe form. The amount of childhood deaths from Covid pales in comparison to practically anything else, including influenza, yet we decided to destroy a generation of kids and set them back for nothing:
Before, the milestone guidelines said that at 24 months, or two years of age, a child should be able to say more than 50 words. This milestone has been pushed back to 30 months.
One Twitter user by the name of Karen Vaites, who has spoken out before regarding masking and how this affects children development in learning and speech, noted that the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, or ASHA, still says that speaking less than 50 words by the age of two is cause for concern.
Vaites previously slammed the CDC for quietly updating its masking guidance to include clear masks as an allowable option for students.
Vaites noted that “masks have become so politicized” that “we are not allowed to talk about the downsides/risks of masking children. Even when they are in plain sight.”
There’s been a lot of anecdotal evidence floating around for a while now mostly from actual doctors who deal with young children and their speech and cognitive development. These are practicing doctors, mind you, not the behind-the-desk bureaucrats running our healthcare policy and guidelines:
https://twitter.com/RMConservative/status/1491417997470277646?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Masks have been and continue to be extremely damaging for young children. There has been no viable reason to continue using them in the classroom setting for so long when vaccines are available to any adult of teaching age.
Children can’t vote, however, and they can’t forcibly fight back. Parents, feeling like kids are better off in a masked classroom than being on a computer at home, submitted to this hygiene theater.
In the end, children have paid the price with lowered standards due to a poor quality education received during two years of an overblown pandemic.
Many high school-aged kids will be eligible to vote for the first time in 2022 and 2024. Let’s hope they punish the party of Covid restrictions and masks when they get the chance.
Remember, masks only belong on kids, not the hypocritical politicians using the kids as props:
We can all thank politicians like Stacey Abrams, the rest of the Democratic Party, and teachers’ unions for dumbing down kids with masks and low-quality education for two years.
