Tiny babies held in the arms of their parents forced to wear little masks! Not to mention babies naturally look to their parents’ faces for reassurance and connection. It’s fundamentally abhorrent and even criminal we are raising children who will be developmentally possibly permanently harmed by this lack of human face to face connection. How will they judge emotions or tone when their brains are deprived of that input? Babies brains are soaking up sensory and verbal stimuli at a prodigious rate as they grow and develop. A critical component of that healthy growth will be absent. It reminds me of the orphans in Romania and Russia (pls correct if countries wrong) who had profound difficulties relating to their adoptive parents because they had not been held or comforted by parents or caregivers and thus did not equate them with positive emotion or responses. I’ve only read and studied this on a limited level (MA degree only) so would love for a more educated person to chime in here.