Although my most recent CT Scan shows that my tumor has disappeared, I still make the rounds in terms of doctor visits (and will be receiving chemo for some time yet). On those doctor visits everyone wears masks, and I notice I sometimes have difficulty understanding what the masked health professional is saying. That got me to thinking about what the effect of masks is on the deaf. For some reason nobody ever seems to talk about that.The deaf, of course, depend on reading lips in order to have two-way communication when among the general public. What happens to a ...