@Infoseepage The clear window mask is mediocre. You miss way too much of the nuances of facial expressions. It's not pure lipreading that deaf people do, it's the whole face. Thanks for the suggestion, though. I know you meant well. ;)
I do shop when I do need to shop, and the supermarket I consider 'fairly safe' due to ventilation (and I tend to go in early morning when it's not busy at all). I also do take walks out, we consider outdoors to be safe as well. Other than that, I'm pretty much staying home. But um... that was already the case before the pandemic, so not too much changed for me. ;)
We'll see if an event in late august will continue and whether we'll go there, depends on the severity of the infection spread. We've entering the 3rd wave now. This time it's the (still largely unvaccinated) youths of 19-29 years who absolutely have to go to dance events or to hotspot countries. Sheesh. We went from 100 infections a day to 10k in... 5 days? Wonderful. :P
@trinsec Really no good solution short of going with a full on PAPR. Those would certainly work for lip reading. Problem is getting the OTHER person to wear it. Hard enough to get the general public to even strap a 30 cent surgical mask to their face. Believe it or not, I almost spend $1100 on one early in the pandemic when it was impossible to get N95's...but you could still get a PAPR from welding supply stores. Go big or go home!
