The office where I got my hearing aids told me that hearing aids sales had skyrocketed during the lockdown.
People would take off their masks, and their hearing aids would go flying. Some people didn’t notice. Some lost them down gutters.
The mask straps were hell on hearing aids. Even wearing them, I could not understand what anyone was saying because I have to read lips. My wife became my interpreter. At the grocery store, I would answer the checker’s questions because I remembered that they work off a script.
“did you find everything you needed?” Yes.
“Have a good day”. Ok
I just faked it a lot of the time.