There is a lot, so much missed school, community mortality rates, overall covid positive rates, hospitalizations for kids and adults, hospital capacity ICU/personnel/etc. and yes pediatric hospitalizations and death. Covid will affect you even if you don’t mask and don’t get sick…cancelation of elective procedures, subpar care when you have a non covid emergency.
Florida is pretty high on all of these metrics right now. Maybe the state peaked 2 weeks into school for pediatric hospitalizations and overall hospitalizations but still way too high to ignore covid exists by not using proven mitigation strategies.
I think the Hospitalizations of 200 plus Florida kids might be worth masking all the kids by itself but when you add all the other stuff it’s not even a debate in my mind.
The less it spreads the better off we all are, not just short term but long term as well.