Takes a look at everything. Theyve become the symbol of the pandemic as well as the isolation that its brought face masks studies show that they can help protect us from the coronavirus as we go about our daily lives but they can also keep us from understanding one another. And. It is psychologically for 2 pilots to be able to work as a team its critically important to be able to read your colleagues emotions you can in on them. As we cover our faces and practice social distancing or face masks making us socially distant. Welcome to deal with 1000. 00 special im stephen theres a blend its good to have you with us life behind the mask comes with plenty of challenges especially when it comes to reading emotions but could also be creating new ways of communicating it to look. For. The moment of video calls are a common way of communicating cloud a finger is glad she can at least see her friends onscreen and facial expressions are a key part of communication so what happens when half of our face is covered. As for him that. Communication becomes more tricky something is different when its come in it takes me longer to work out whether someone is happy to see me or whether they agree with me basically i get less information from whats your limit. And thats the problem with masks suddenly half of the face is affectively empty the Communications Research demonstrates what this means that this Sculpture Park in her. If shes sticking her tongue out if shes sad or happy its hard to know. When this went on. We can try it out to the moon when i have my mask on at what point does it look like im smiling when im sad or being neutral my eyes dont move much nor if i just smile a little bit basically i have to have a broad smile and gesture with my eyes to make it clear that im smiling. While wearing a mask and without one actor Category National it demonstrates fear. Anger. Disdain. Sadness. In comprehension. Believe babies learn a lot through facial expressions they look at their parents to see how they react and they learn from it right now its hard for them and when i think about people with certain disabilities it can be very stressful for them to do it and. So being a floor is hearing impaired when she. Communicates with others she relies heavily on gestures and facial expressions and mandatory masks make things more challenging. I went to the doctor noticed that it was really hard going at the reception i had to work hard to show that i had a hearing impairment and that i was having difficulties communicating when the nurse understood she was quick to suggest that we remove our masks that made it much easier to communicate that and to using more gestures. But sabina floor is keen to keep her mask on as much as possible especially when out shopping in this bakery in dresden at 1st its hard to order something but the saleswoman soon responds and shes happy too many times during the Coronavirus Crisis instead of talking more loudly and clearly this illusion is using more gestures than facial expressions. Or face mask forces us to change our habits when it comes to understanding and being understood. Dozens from each of them is theres an opportunity here perhaps we can learn to take more time to communicate and make sure weve correctly understood something. With our faces covered by masks our eyes have to take on some of the talking for us until the day when we no longer need to wear them. Joined now by wolf and dick is a professor of social psychology at Good University in frankfurt which is where he joins me from welcome rob the 1st question are we losing connection are we losing connection with one another because of these face masks. Yes scent might be one of the problem of going face marks all in research very clearly shows scent social connection is extremely important and during the day so hot rock out we know we were on david to get in touch with each other and now with the pace of the mosque what its missing as men makes facial expressions and we humans have learned in 1000000 so give the illusion to reach into each others faces and this is very Important Information that is missing now. So you think people are learning new ways of communicating with one another if they cant see those expressions i sometimes try to observe myself and i try to communicate much more with my ice and my eyebrows when i was when i am very small so it depends a little bit on how long this will continue or if we have to wear the mosque in public while the next couple of months maybe then who clearly learned these new techniques yes is it fair to say that face masks represent just one aspect of a larger problem during this pandemic and as social isolation yes thats right place mosques are just a visited sino faith but i think the social isolation phenomenon a much more c. V. And im not sure why you know broader than the face mascolo so people who do not live in families who do not live there and larger communities and have to learn to to not seeing their colleagues have friends. Their relatives for 2 or 3 months and they says that huge problem you mentioned also in the past physical contact basic physical contact something that we try to avoid with many people right now thats also a form of isolation to not have that correct. Thats right and i mean its a kind of surely if you or i will sniff it china a couple of years ago and right afterwards mostly in japan so chinese keep context much more than japanese for your mom to do a Little German sob probably somewhere in the middle and so its a difficult thing if you are not used to that situation not being able to touch each other. It feels awkward and and reach humans also returned in our years so many 1000000 years sulky volution. To to to console each other by physical touch and contact what kind of a psychological burden is that put on people to have to forego a lot of these social interactions. I think it did a particular. Study starting in the 1950 said i have shown that children who are hospitalized for a few months or longer because ill see the iness at c. B. S. Impalements all their cognitive but also their social development we are working together on a corona project with speak of from 10 Different Countries and just now that data from kazakhstan came in in kazakhstan between mid march and late late may more than 800 people have coped themselves compared to only 14 in the year before so lets take a note said something is going on we dont know yet whether theyd all serious because some people have financial worries or other stress shows but i think socially so isolation is a big factor contributing to that all right an easily overlooked aspect of the pandemic professor authentic from Gods University in frankfurt thank you for joining us and time now to answer your questions about coven 19 over to our science correspondent their claims. For. How will those who sustain long term damage from covert dein 1000 respond to the flu this full. A lot of experts are worried that this winter were going to see this kind of perfect respiratory disease storm that fear the 2nd wave of covert 19 will coincide with the yearly flu season now if that happens it could easily easily bring Health Systems really to the brink when it comes to influenza one of the one of the most vulnerable populations in the coming fall and winter will unquestionably be those people who have already been ravaged by couvade 19 for their own catching the flu in the months ahead could quickly turn life threatening but one reason why doctors are encouraging as many people as possible to get a flu shot this year most especially those who suffered badly from cove in 19 and might have sustained lung damage from it a flu shot wont provide perfect protection but its much much better than nothing. Tests differentiate between sars cove 2 and the corona viruses that cause colds. This is a little complicated so stick with me when it comes to testing you have to distinguish between sensitivity and specificity now sensitivity describes how likely a test is to to properly detect an infection with the virus so so it affects what are called false negative results specificity on the other hand describes how likely or unlikely a test is to confuse the virus its supposed to detect with another one and report that someone is carrying the virus when they actually arent and thats called a false positive result now. Although the polymerase Chain Reaction or p. C. R. Tests that are being widely used in the pandemic are highly specific their sensitivity can vary depending on for example how the sample was collected so what that means in clear terms is that if you take a test and it turns out positive youre very likely to have the disease if it comes out negative however thats not an ironclad guarantee you dont have the disease test sensitivity is improving all the time but its not perfect. And before we let you go a story of how some Community Minded individuals in kyrgyzstan are helping diabetes patients who otherwise might have been overlooked during the pandemic. To lot can be called is one of 20 volunteers who began delivering insulin to patients by bicycle once the authorities lock down the capital bishkek in march now those restrictions have since been lifted but some patients including 73 year old me look could shrink over are still getting their medicines delivered by the man they know as their god. And so we have time for thanks for watching. Injured the conflict zone with sara kelly swedens unique trust based approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic project in the strict aloft downs imposed around the world but the policy has come under increasing criticism and pressure my guest this week is swedens foreign minister and linda with a death toll much higher than its neighbors has sweden made it deadly our conflicts are. Next on w. Shes no longer alone in belgium that more and more people are rising up past on vets see the art historian is fighting against the romanticize ation of her country has come only alfonso and for confronting repression she is demanding more equal rights and respect for all known white people together with many others some peaceful in europe. And 60 minutes on the t. W. Beethoven is for me to be told is for you. Beethoven is for have. Beethoven. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven is for. Beethoven 202250th anniversary year long do you. Every death is very tragic with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working well it sounds like you want to troll us out of e. U. Swedens unique trust based approach to tackling the coronavirus pandemic project of the stricter lockdowns imposed around the world and instead encourage people to voluntarily social distance but the policy has come under increasing criticism and