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With a mask on it's challenging to understand someone's feelings, reactions, age, etc.

 

Is the person smiling or scowling?mask on

 

Are they chewing gum or trying to breath?

 

What if one of you has a hearing impairment?

 

So much of our personal interactions are based on seeing the other person's mouth. Without that I find myself staring at a peron's eyes and listening to the tone of their voice very intently.

 

And sometimes it hard to hear the other person. Try ordering an iced, Ristretto, 10 shot, venti, with breve, 5 pump vanilla, 7 pump caramel, 4 Splenda, [and] poured, not shaken at Starbucks through a mask and a plexiglass divider.

 

I think I'm going to learn sign language...

Comments

Corey Bearak

You can order on line and just pick it up; and the preceding existed prepandemic.
But your commentary highlights an important utility of Zoom and other video-conferencing tools.
Dana Charlton

I've thought about my mother, who was hearing-impaired since a child. She used hearing aids but more relied on reading lips. One of the stories my Mother told us was that when she was a little girl, her mother used to read her bedtime stories. One night she said to her mother, "Turn the light on, Mama, I can't hear you." And that was how they discovered she was reading lips to enhance her hearing.
Rona Gura

I told someone the other day, "You can't tell but I'm smiling under my mask." She kindly said, "I can see it in your eyes."
Daniel Schwartz

Eyes are a great source when seeking mood and acknowledgment. It;s why it's so important in business (and socially) to make eye contact regardless of mask wearing.
Shelley Simpson

I have been learning on and off. It's a beautiful language and learning signing is no different from learning any other. My wife is deaf and reads lips. When we go out, we both wear shields instead of masks. She because masks are challenging with hearing aids and the cochlear implant and I so she can "hear" me. These are complicated times and now I am super happy that when I order coffee, it's "milk, no sugar." Keep it simple.

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