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Masks saw more than 90% of deaf people struggle to communicate during pandemic
Medical Xpress ^ | OCTOBER 3, 2022 | University of Essex

Posted on 10/04/2022 11:43:08 AM PDT by george76

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1 posted on 10/04/2022 11:43:08 AM PDT by george76
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More FauciIdiot ‘unintended consequences.... /s


2 posted on 10/04/2022 11:43:51 AM PDT by cranked
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I can vouch for this.
My tinnitus is bad enough that I’ve learned to read lips.
Impossible with masks.


3 posted on 10/04/2022 11:45:08 AM PDT by RandallFlagg ("Okay. As long as the paperwork is clean, you boys can do what you like out there." -Fifi)
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Especially bad in woke hospitals with woke doctors wearing woke masks. Maybe that’s the plan.


4 posted on 10/04/2022 11:54:07 AM PDT by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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Gee, didn’t see that coming.


5 posted on 10/04/2022 11:56:12 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021. )
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Apparently, when my wife is talking, 76% of the time I miss vital information too.


6 posted on 10/04/2022 11:56:32 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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Well, DUH!!!!!


7 posted on 10/04/2022 11:57:39 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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This makes democrats happy.


8 posted on 10/04/2022 12:00:56 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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Very accurate.

Between my lousy hearing, idiotic plastic shields, and people mumbling through face diapers, I just about gave up on talking.

Even with hearing aids in, still sounded like people were talking with a pillow on their mouth.


9 posted on 10/04/2022 12:05:17 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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Those virtue-signaling masks’ ear loops play hell with my hearing aids. My younger son’s mom-in-law sewed me up a three-layer mask with ties. It is every bit as useful as the China-made abominations given out at med facilities.


10 posted on 10/04/2022 12:06:10 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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I wear hearing aids but didn’t realize how much I relied on reading lips until the mask epidemic arrived.


11 posted on 10/04/2022 12:07:24 PM PDT by MisterArtery
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Especially bad in woke hospitals with woke doctors wearing woke masks

When the doctors, nurses and staff are not comfortable with English as a first language. Good thing I rode the Chicago subway/el trains when I went to college. Gave me a head-start on understanding some of the gibberish.

12 posted on 10/04/2022 12:08:58 PM PDT by Bernard (“the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God." JFK 1-20-61)
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Wonderful. Nothing like hurting the already ostracized.


13 posted on 10/04/2022 12:14:30 PM PDT by EEGator
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Another good reason not to wear a mask. No reason they couldn’t have made “clear masks”. I believe the story is false in many ways.


14 posted on 10/04/2022 12:14:56 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Where's Garrett Morris when you need him?


15 posted on 10/04/2022 12:16:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I wear hearing aids. I can’t tell you how often I would say to store clerks that I could not understand them and could they speak up. It got really annoying for many of them

Good.


16 posted on 10/04/2022 12:16:20 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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Oops...guess they did have clear masks. So what is the problem??


17 posted on 10/04/2022 12:16:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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Is he still playing Beesehball?


18 posted on 10/04/2022 12:16:46 PM PDT by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: george76
It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:

Masks are:

1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!


19 posted on 10/04/2022 12:23:58 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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Who cares? Certainly not the Democrat/Communists who look at this as a small price to pay to turn America into a nation of government-dependent, irrationally frightened, cowardly hypochondriacs ... many of who are still walking around in that pitiful, depressed condition.


20 posted on 10/04/2022 12:27:07 PM PDT by glennaro (Live life unbullied and unafraid. Choose to ignore or fight the irrationality that surrounds you.)
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