It has been clear for months now that much of our coronavirus policy is being driven by sheer hysteria rather than actual science. School policies requiring young children to wear masks are no different.

There is no evidence — none — to support the mandatory masking of children. Take it from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which did not even pretend to justify its masking recommendation for children over 2 years old with hard data because the agency knows such data does not exist. In fact, the CDC’s own studies proved that mandatory masking did not make a statistical difference in the schools that stayed open last year when compared to the schools where masking was optional. And that’s because children are not effective transmitters of COVID-19 — something we’ve known for well over a year at this point.