Posted on 10/04/2022 11:43:08 AM PDT by george76
I remember laughing so hard I was crying when I first saw that skit. The 70’s were the golden age of sketch comedy TV. The original SNL, SCTV, Carol Burnett and Monty Python.
Don’t have to tell ME about it! Was a serious problem. If a person would not drop the mask so I could lip-read, I had to hand them a notepad and pen.
Yeah, besides the face diapers muffling speech, they would hide behind a clear plastic shield to destroy what little was intelligible.
You would not believe the layers of plastic our local DMV had, with a tiny hole to let out a small bit of sound.
Same here!
I’m very hard of hearing, not deaf, just heard of hearing. I’ve not encountered too many difficulties, I just say, repeatedly if necessary, “I can’t hear you, please remove the mask.”
I would sometimes say ten or more times, “I still can’t understand you”.
My poor Aunt Peggy (deaf since her early 20s) spent the last two years of her nursing home life living in mask hell. English, in her late 90s, and sharp as a tack until the masks went on. My nieces appealed to multiple U.K. government agencies with zero relief... “Sorry about your Mum” was the best they got. Her kids couldn’t see her in person, and her low IQ immigrant “caretakers” had no patience and zero understanding of her condition.
This masking was a problem for hard-of-hearing for me as well. very much so. And the faster another talks, skipping over full enunciation of words, the worse it gets.
Wow! I testify that this article is the truth. I have diminished hearing and masks worn by other was a major block in communication.
Masks made it hard for deaf people to communicate? Sorry to hear it.
More importantly, masks made it hard for tens of millions of children to communicate.
And with the kids it will delay their development for awhile. I know two kids that are having difficulties with speech (ages 4 and 5).
“I wear hearing aids but didn’t realize how much I relied on reading lips until the mask epidemic arrived.”
Ditto
It was a challenge for me. To help, I used an Android app called “LIVE TRANSCRIBE”. It turns spoken speech into text. Works great and is free!
bein half deaf I had serious problems... I cant tell you how many times I just turned and walked away from “Mumblers” who would mumble at the same volume even when asked to speak up. And whats the worst of it all, THEY get irritated with you!!
Rush Limbaugh said it right... “We’re the only handicap people get mad at”!!
Yep. It’s hard for we deaf folks!
Ditto!
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