When most people are asked to consider the accessibility problems that masking causes, they often don't realize that it extends beyond just the person wearing t

When most people are asked to consider the accessibility problems that masking causes, they often don't realize that it extends beyond just the person wearing the mask. Like you just described, somebody else wearing a mask can impose a significant accessibility burden, even for people who may not necessarily have hearing difficulties, for example. Encouraging, or even forcing in many places, people to wear masks was truly an accessibility tragedy. It's made even worse by the fact that widespread everyday masking isn't even effective. A lot of people were forced to endure a lot of unnecessary and unjustifiable suffering.