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People with Masks

Contrapuntal

Does anyone find it really difficult to work out conversations with someone wearing a mask?

Assuming the sound is not obstructed - even then it seems impossible to tell who someone is, whether they are happy or angry and how to have a conversation?

I am dreading the masked world that lies ahead of us. POST-EDIT:  I really want people to be protected, but I hope it doesn't need to be like this too much longer. 

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  • Yes and no actually. I've worn an autistic mask - faking being neurotypical - for a very long time (I was only diagnosed as neurodiverse recently). I find the whole thing so freeing that I'd be happy to go out wearing then whole PPE gear. I can be 'me'.

    The technique I have adopted now that we actually wear those semi surgical masks and the like is to smile at people with my eyes. They smile back. I don't do it with everyone but since we're all 'staying local' it's amazing how much of a boost to the mood it is - like some benevolent and very positive secret society of smilers.

    We all give out little breath droplets when we speak and this is the reason, or one of them, for wearing the mask. The way round this I have found is simply to raise my voice. The person you are speaking to raises their voice as well and a conversation can be had even 2 metres apart.

    I'm still working on how to hear and be heard when faced with those plexiglass screens that are now in al the shops - that  is really hard.

    This is Ess Cee btw - I just worked out how to sign in properly - progress !

  • in reply to NAS67658

    I have seen people stick their head around the plexiglass, defeating the object - several times :-D

  • in reply to Contrapuntal

    Yes, me too. It's hysterical. We just have to put it down to the human need to communicate whatever barriers (sic) are put in the way.

  • in reply to NAS67658

    In Belgium at 20.00 people have this new habit to come out of the house and applaud the people who work in healthcare. Then I see my neigbours stand there and chatting close to each other... kids run around and in between them. Two of these people are going towards 80... if they get it it might be very serious... It baffles me. They could also keep their respective distances, and be cautious, but somehow slowly slowly they seem to forget there's a global pandemic going on.

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  • in reply to NAS67658

    In Belgium at 20.00 people have this new habit to come out of the house and applaud the people who work in healthcare. Then I see my neigbours stand there and chatting close to each other... kids run around and in between them. Two of these people are going towards 80... if they get it it might be very serious... It baffles me. They could also keep their respective distances, and be cautious, but somehow slowly slowly they seem to forget there's a global pandemic going on.

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