Correlation isn?t causation. High covid case numbers cause people to adopt masking policies, not the other way around (as this tweet suggests).

1. Masks significantly decrease rather than increase the risk of contracting and spreading COVID 2. Masking - in conjunction with hand washing - reduces rather than causes RSV cases

Masking children increases the spread of Covid in schools, a disease that poses near zero risk to their age group. Of course, the distancing & remote learning Dems advocated the past year are precisely what is causing the RSV epidemic causing these pediatric hospitalizations.