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Get vaccinated so I can communicate again.
Title (Dublin Core)
Get vaccinated so I can communicate again.
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As I’m sure you’ve seen and experienced, mask mandates are starting to come back. In stores, offices, and on my college campus as well.
As a person with hearing loss, masks make it so difficult me for me to communicate. I rely so heavily on lipreading, seeing how the mouth moves when speaking, to understand what is said. Without lipreading, my speech recognition is around 16%. This means with masks, I can only absorb 16% of all interactions - that is incredibly isolating.
When I go back to the classroom in September, it’s going to be so difficult to navigate the classroom setting when I can’t understand anyone. My teachers will have clear masks provided, but what about during group work or when students ask questions that I might also have? I’m going to completely miss out on the college experience I’ve been longing for for a year and a half because people won’t get vaccinated.
I’m tired of disclosing my hearing loss to check out at a store. I’m tired of constantly fighting for closed captioning for online lectures. I’m tired of living in a pandemic where we have a solution to end it.
Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives. Getting the vaccine means you’re helping deaf and hard of hearing people get back to a place where they can communicate again.
SAVE this post and SHARE to spread awareness. This topic is NOT talked about enough and it’s something that affects the deaf and hard of hearing community every single day.
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As I’m sure you’ve seen and experienced, mask mandates are starting to come back. In stores, offices, and on my college campus as well.
As a person with hearing loss, masks make it so difficult me for me to communicate. I rely so heavily on lipreading, seeing how the mouth moves when speaking, to understand what is said. Without lipreading, my speech recognition is around 16%. This means with masks, I can only absorb 16% of all interactions - that is incredibly isolating.
When I go back to the classroom in September, it’s going to be so difficult to navigate the classroom setting when I can’t understand anyone. My teachers will have clear masks provided, but what about during group work or when students ask questions that I might also have? I’m going to completely miss out on the college experience I’ve been longing for for a year and a half because people won’t get vaccinated.
I’m tired of disclosing my hearing loss to check out at a store. I’m tired of constantly fighting for closed captioning for online lectures. I’m tired of living in a pandemic where we have a solution to end it.
Vaccines work. Vaccines save lives. Getting the vaccine means you’re helping deaf and hard of hearing people get back to a place where they can communicate again.
SAVE this post and SHARE to spread awareness. This topic is NOT talked about enough and it’s something that affects the deaf and hard of hearing community every single day.
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Date (Dublin Core)
August 10, 2021
Creator (Dublin Core)
ktnlifts
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
screenshot
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Clothing & Accessories
English
Public Health & Hospitals
English
Emotion
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
mask
vaccine
mandate
disability
hearing loss
communication
frustration
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
disability
Instagram
mask mandate
college
hearing loss
communication
Collection (Dublin Core)
Deaf, deaf, and HOH Perspectives
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
05/28/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
06/02/2022
08/02/2022
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This item was submitted on May 28, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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