Masking children is cheap, easy to implement and should help reduce transmission, but that doesn’t mean it is entirely cost-free. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
When you’re governing through a crisis, the principle of least harm should apply. If you’re faced with a range of unpalatable options, choose the one that causes minimal possible harm to the fewest people. Lurching through the serial crises that constitute this pandemic, our Government is taking a more pragmatic interpretation of the principle. It is opting for a kind of harm minimisation-lite – the least harm to the fewest people at the lowest cost without upsetting a major lobby group or voter base.
Jennifer O'Cunt
How about more diversity in the Irish Times? Always the same dreary white middle class bunch whose famed abortions are probably older than the average ethnic Guardian columnist
Does Jennifer even like journalism?
Horeshit. It’s called science. Do a focus group on gravity and the apple still falls toward the center of mass.
OK so there is no evidence a more diverse group makes better decisions. The pigment in your skin, the people you sleep with or how you go to the toilet should not be a major factor in how your mind operates.
Masks on children are an important part of inhibiting Covid transmission in school as an adjunct to mechanical ventilation, air filtration to HEPA standard, reduced class sizes and contact tracing. Masks are part of the solution. Multilayered protective measures are best.
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