Equating mask wearing with some moral principle of caring about death and dying is persuasive and false.

The risk of death to children and otherwise healthy adults is, as a first approximation, nil. Moreover, children are ineffective carriers of COVID-19.

Masks will not reduce the risk of death below zero.

Wearing masks when in proximity to elderly and metabolically compromised individuals masks sense. There is no benefit to masks in other settings, and your article overlooks this fact by exaggerating the medical benefits and making moral claims that amount to virtue signalling.

Lastly, you’re overlooking the considerable damage that masks can do to childhood development, the obstacle to communication that they present, and the difficulty that special populations (such as autistic people) will have with masks.

I’m thinking in particular of children like A.J. Kay’s daughter, for whom masks are serious emotional obstacle.