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Take off The chinstrap! AM Hard of Hearing!

Yes, I know, I'm obsessed with the subject. (Yes, I'm obsessed with the subject.) The following is a letter I just sent aldiario Clarín. Goes here, which of course is where it belongs:

is known and said the chinstrap is for those who are sick, not the healthy. But in the midst of psychosis and misinformation, chinstrap begins to assert itself as fashion, with disposable gloves and the little bottle of alcohol gel. A trio that promises to serve as a shell for the dreaded flu pass us by the hand.
Okay, everyone is entitled to care as you want. But what strikes me is that nobody has yet spoken of the masks and deafness. The relationship is simple: hard of hearing and deaf people we interact with others, in general, reading lips. I hear a lot, but if I do not see the mouth of another, the voice is pure noise. Even those with the LSA (Argentina sign language) as a natural language, used to reading the lips of those who can not communicate with your hands.
The chinstrap of the other, then isolates us. We leave to the side of society. There is no possible way to listen or understand the direction of a physician embarbijado, the question of a boy, indications of an employee.
is why I offer from my place as a journalist, and also hard of hearing, a series of recommendations or suggestions to continue "working" in the midst of the pandemic:
If you are deaf or hard of hearing, ask the person who has to talk, and using mask, take it off and communicate to a meter away. Wonders of lip reading: we can understand without a sound, and quite a distance.
If you can not get away, take an interpreter. Someone who listens and tell what it is saying another. This method means losing their independence and autonomy, but do not tell me you have had too much independence and autonomy. If the interpreter does not accept to stay without mask, try to bring an interpreter for the interpreter. Alternatively
always return to the current system of writing. Ask the other to write what he has to say. Of course, before and after the fact, pass the alcohol gel pen. And why not also the notebook.
And if all else fails, then stop trying to communicate with others, which generally do not have much to say. Stay home, read and watch movies with subtitles at least until the worst happens. It will not be part of society but surely, neither contagious influenza A.