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A naive American actress, a disgruntled prince, and a few chickens aren’t going to bring down a 1,200-year-old institution, but what has boiled to the surface is a conversation concerning the modern purpose of the monarchy.
Throwing the proverbial baby out with the proverbial bathwater is a short- term, knee-jerk reaction. Any institution is only as good as its people. That fact might be the current monarchy’s problem.
If every royal were like the Queen, there wouldn’t be a problem, but the Queen won’t be around forever. How to you follow an act like Queen Elizabeth? Many might not want to. Sequels don’t always work, and that could be the insurmountable obstacle.
Can you repeat that? Why COVID-19 face masks make it so hard to hear
Different mask materials impact speech more than others. The best ones, Wilson said, are the disposable medical masks (blue masks)
Dec 29, 2020 5:00 PM By: Yona Harvey
When Renfrew resident Christina Edgar visited the emergency department a few weeks ago, the doctor asked questions, but Edgar couldn’t understand a word.
“The doctor was impossible to understand through her mask and face shield,” she said, so the doctor finally wrote questions on a piece of paper.
At 101 years of age, Edgar confided that before the pandemic, when people didn’t wear masks, she could hear very well with a hearing aid. Now, even after turning the volume up on her hearing device, she said masked people’s voices are “indistinct.”