How does wearing of mask affect the life of the speaker and her people? How’s the life improved as a coincidence of it?
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It was a windy Sunday afternoon in early May 2020, and Samar Al Zayer was riding on the train in Amsterdam with her husband. They were travelling to visit her mother-in-law when a commotion broke out in their carriage. An elderly woman was agitated that a family of three had chosen to sit close to her and wanted them to move.
As Al Zayer and her husband watched the row unfold, she was reminded of something from her childhood days growing up in Dhahran on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast.
“Stephan and I were both wearing face masks and I noticed he was trying to read my expression through my eyes a bit more than usual,” recalls the 33-year-old clinical psychologist. “I said to him, ‘This is how we used to communicate with people who wear veils.’”
Today, more than 50 countries mandate wearing masks in public. Many citizens in countries without strict regulations wear them anyway to protect themselves and others from catching coronavirus. (Read more about whether you should wear a face mask.) And in many countries, particularly in Asia, wearing masks – to guard against pollution, for example – was already the norm.