My 9-year-old daughter came home from camp two weeks ago after playing three hours of outdoor tennis in a mask. “I thought I was going to faint,” she told me, looking ill after playing in 98-degree weather. Later that afternoon the camp, run by the Sidwell Friends School, called to complain about her mask compliance. We’re now 16 months into the pandemic and children remain victims of the Covid political theater that has characterized the national debate about masks ever since... It’s clear from the data that masking children is irrelevant to Covid outcomes. Look at Sweden, where children attended school unmasked and saw no change in pediatric death rates. In a study of 400,000 German children conducted between August and December, when masks weren’t in use in classrooms (August to October) there were fewer student cases than after they were introduced. (The difference likely resulted from seasonal changes, not the introduction of masks.) A separate study tested schools in Florida, New York and Massachusetts and concluded that there was no correlation between mask mandates and the spread of the virus. You don’t have to be a statistician or an epidemiologist to know that masking children is pointless at best and unhealthy at worst.