and quarantine observations. Today I realized that listening to a stranger in a mask, I try so much to concentrate on the sounds of his speech that I don’t look at him at all. The eyes tell nothing, and the mouth cannot be seen. It turned out that the visible articulation of the lips seriously compensates for blurred speech or poor hearing. Everything that I have not heard, I pick up and recognize by sight. And when this channel of perception is cut off by a mask, I unconsciously try to reduce the activity of vision in order to load the brain with hearing as much as possible.

I’t know if that wasn’t all.