The start of a letter to the editor in the Omaha World-Herald.

This past week I’ve read many stories of parents expressing their concern over their children wearing face masks in school this upcoming school year. Their justification is that their children are “too little” to understand, or that it is essentially a “petri dish” over their mouth, or that it’s their “right” to decide to wear one or not.

For those who have children who are “too little,” I’d like you to note the number of infants who wear eyeglasses and hearing aids to help them. Is your child in school unable to cope with a mask, or are you unwilling to help protect others, through the reduction of airborne spread, in the classroom?

And for those that claim a mask is dirty and will only lead to more infections and face lesions, when a baseball cap or sunglasses that are worn all day at a game, does this present the same problem? What about the doctors and nurses who wear masks for hours at a time for their job, especially in the current condition?

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