After two years, growing calls to take masks off children in school

Kerry Dingle is a mother of two. She thinks masks should be optional for kids in schools and childcare. And that makes her feel pretty lonely in Silver Spring, Md.

“As soon as you question, ‘Is it a good idea to put a 2-year-old in a mask all day?’ ” she says, “You’re suddenly a psychotic, anti-vax right-winger. Which really couldn’t be further from the truth.”

Dingle says she loves vaccines and thinks everyone should have them. “And the fact that high-risk people can protect themselves with vaccines and boosters now is fantastic and means that they should do that. And we should stop burdening little kids with protecting other people.”