to it as prison. they eve come to really hate school and the mitigations are part of that. i'm open to the argument that that is a fact feis we have to make. there are people who are still immunocompromised, still people who have vulnerable family members. what i'm not open to is people saying there are no harms. i think the harms of masking are harder to document than vaccine transmission because you can't -- psychological problems rarely have a single causal factor. there are studies out there about masks hindering people's ability to, say, recognize emotions. i think finally we've seen a lot of research and experts coming out that cloth masks in the age of omicron do very little. leana wen said they are basically facial decorations. it's not going to look much different in terms of risk factor if people in cloth masks take them off and people who