Yup. My mother is hard of hearing and wears hearing aids. This week-end, we were in Chinatown and she asked a young woman wearing a mask a question about something for sale. I was too far away to hear the discussion and later said: "Well, what was it?"

My Mom said: "I don't know. I couldn't hear what she said."

The young woman was a white and spoke English so there wasn't a language barrier.