The difficulties of the social divergence resulting from the spread of the Corona epidemic (Covid-19) did not affect the mental health of individuals subject to health isolation - whether in hospitals or homes - and the economy only, but rather extended to turn the daily life of people with special challenges into ongoing challenges one after another.
Permanent contact with the blind
Blind people live the worst days of their lives in this period, at a time when doctors warn against unnecessarily touching objects, and avoiding touching general items such as buttons and door handles, and avoiding people far enough to avoid infection with the Corona virus, blind people find it difficult to approach the impossibility of applying this matter, because the fact that Their lives depend mainly on touch. They see the world around them with their fingers.
While the sighted people can press the elevator buttons with a pen or open the doors with their elbows instead of their hands, the blind need to explore the location of the button or the handle with their fingers and revolve around the place where the button or handle is supposed to be located, there is no help before reaching the place they want, as this must be done They command directly with their fingers, while the medium cannot be used as a short stick or a plastic glove.
This increased contact exposes the blind to an increased rate of infection with the virus, but not only that, the blind usually need help throughout their presence outside the home, whether to cross the road or purchase supplies from the store, and they usually get this help quickly all the time.
However, after the spread of the virus, obtaining assistance became difficult, as many people are not interested in providing assistance to people with special needs, preferring to leave the social distance to get close to the point of contact, and these people stand for long minutes in their places without getting help, which makes the simplest movements an additional burden for them.
And it gets worse in countries that do not depend on "Braille" on their different products or on banners, so they are forced to wait for help from people, and even the option of buying home needs online as many people do is not always an available option, especially if the blind person lives on his own.
Masks impede communication
Deaf people, people with partial deafness and hearing impairment also suffer from the effects caused by the spread of the Corona virus. Although they can see and do not need help from others, as happens with the blind, this pandemic made communication with them more difficult on several levels.
The hearing impaired often depends on the loudest voice of their interlocutor as much as possible, but with the wearing of masks that compulsively reduce the voice and with social divergence, listening becomes impossible in this category.
Also, those who can understand the content of the hadith by reading the lips are unable to do this anymore, because it is necessary for the mask to cover the entire area of the mouth.
Duke Health advises those with total or partial deafness not to pretend to understand the content of the hadith, but rather to insist that its interlocutor know that he cannot hear, it is not disgraceful, and that there are some necessary cases in the exceptional atmosphere in which we live and which require Understand the full Hadith.
Masks with a transparent window
There is some hope for those who can read lips, as many have been able to produce transparent masks so that the lips are not masked and at the same time not exposed to the virus, but these masks are still limited in spread, although there are many voices demanding that these masks become the first and obvious choice when wearing The mask.
But because transparent window masks are not available in all stores in most countries until now, handicraft experts have started making their own masks, inviting others to follow them, to facilitate deaf sufferers, because although the problem of deaf people is considerably simpler than the problem of blind people They know they cannot see.
On the other hand, deafness is not a visual problem that strangers can identify and deal with.