The article from The Atlantic had me in tears; tears of anger, frustration, sadness, and confusion. The paragraph where Stephanie H. Murray discusses how the CDC does not list speech or language impairments among acceptable reasons for a mask exemption from school is where I dove down into a hole.
I clicked on the link provided in the article thinking it would bring me to a generated list of what exemptions would be accepted. Well I had to open up 7 different tabs from links interwoven within the CDC and eeoc.gov sites and I still was unable to find a list. But what I did find was this, "Disability Discrimination" from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and if you scroll down to where it says Definition of a Disability this is a bullet point:
A person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental condition that substantially limits a major life activity (such as walking, talking, seeing, hearing, or learning, or operation of a major bodily function).
Oh and again on the eeoc.gov site under the headline Titles I and V of the American Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) a disability is defined as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities - along with 2 others but for the purpose of my post I am just discussing this one.
And then it proceeds to give examples of what they consider to be a major life activity and you guessed it, among the list is speaking, breathing, learning, reading, concentrating, thinking, communicating, and working.

The spectrum of learning disabilities is vast. We have come so far as a society in finding therapies for the children who are diagnosed one. Many of these disabilities impair the major life activities discussed on both the CDC and EEOC websites. So why were exemptions not allowed exactly?

To get diagnosed with a disability, a parent will take their child to their pediatrician and then different therapists will be called in, all to evaluate and try to pin point where the disability lies. Where were all these therapists when these mandates were being enforced? They knew better.

Many of these children require occupational therapy, physical therapy, AND speech therapy to help their little bodies and brains tackle whatever challenges they face.

If a carpenter showed up to a job without a hammer, would he be able to get the job done? If a chef went to work but there was nowhere for him to cook, would he be able to provide a meal?

A child who has trouble with his speech shows up to his therapists office and can't see her mouth, will he heal?

They have tried to harm our children, but I have seen many parents fighting and I hope to see more.

I hope to see speech therapists coming together with data they have collected throughout this plandemic and start flooding outlets with the harm these masks have done.

Oh and I still have yet to find a generated list from the CDC providing us with any acceptable exemptions.

Thank you for this read and the articles you provided. I am new to PEAKD and Hive and I'm glad I came across your post. Thank you for sharing!