If the CDC has already accepted the fact that unvaccinated adults may go out and about without masks, then there is no justification for making children wear masks. Based on the low transmission rates of the coronavirus among children, an unvaccinated adult without a mask is more likely to spread the coronavirus than an unvaccinated child. Yet because unvaccinated adults are impossible to distinguish from vaccinated adults, they are in effect not required to wear masks under CDC guidelines. Put another way, children are being treated differently by the CDC not because they are more likely to spread disease, but merely because they are more easily identifiable than unvaccinated adults. Earlier in the pandemic, the argument in favor of having children wear masks was that even if they don’t typically get severe COVID-19, children could spread the virus to somebody older who could get seriously ill. But again, by the logic of the CDC announcement, that argument no longer applies. Remember, the CDC guidance is based on the idea that “if you are fully vaccinated, you are protected” and that “people are responsible for their own health.” So if any adults are worked up about the prospect of bands of unvaccinated and maskless kindergartners running wild, they have the option to take the shot. Once we eliminate the societal component from the risk equation, we are left with only the question of whether the COVID-19 risk to children is great enough to justify continued masking. There is no universe in which this is true.