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Friday, May 01, 2020

"WHAT??? I CAN'T SEE YOU!!!"

Mary Beth Pagnella, who has lived with profound hearing loss most of her life, prides herself on being an excellent lip reader.

But, amid the coronavirus outbreak, reading lips has become more difficult with state and federal officials recommending, and some requiring, people to wear masks in public.
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-WiscoDave

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I can sympathize with them. I've got some serious hearing loss and while I don't read lips, it really helps me to understand somebody when I can see their mouths when they're talking. Even somebody with a heavy mustache is harder for me to understand.