Your brain must have been wildly overcompensating all these years so that you read in spite of it, but the aids you've found may help as you get older, when everything with eyes seems to get harder.
My mom wonders if I might be less tired using the tricks I've found, since I was probably having to use more brain power than I realized. The colour overlays are really helpful, though it's interesting; I've been reading a midwifery textbook from 1809 for research purposes and the print is small and there's no option for overlays, but I don't have any issues with it. It's a scan of the book's pages, but there's an option to have it display as computer text and when I switched to that, I found it harder to read than the original scans. Maybe something to do with the font? I'll have to do some experimentation and see what works best for me when I'm writing.
I hope your brother comes out of it quickly and fully and that your sister-in-law doesn't get it or has the mildest of cases.
Unfortunately, his wife has tested positive now, and so has her aunt, who lives in a care home. She visited her a few days before my brother tested positive and had to have a negative test to get in, which she did, so she couldn't have known she was contagious. Last we heard, everyone is okay. Everyone is vaxxed and boosted, so that should help keep things mild, hopefully.
It's very frustrating that so many powerful people have decided it's just time to move on. It's good that you still have many mask wearers. Here in Florida, I don't think 10% of my church congregation masks any more. I do. I'm not particularly vulnerable, but how could I live with myself if I didn't take precautions and then found that I'd spread it while asymptomatic? And I know too many people who have had long covid to feel quite secure myself, even vaxxed and boosted.
It's so easy to spread before you even known you have it (as evidenced by my SIL and her aunt). And long COVID is no joke, plus we really don't know what the long-term effects of even mild cases are. I'll be wearing my mask until I feel safe, regardless of what the mandates are. It's unfortunate that the people who should be wearing a mask (those most likely not following precautions) are the ones who won't be wearing them. We're still very careful about who we gather with, where we go, and how close we get. I know we're lucky that we can afford that, and I feel for people who have been forced back to work or can't risk the time off.
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My mom wonders if I might be less tired using the tricks I've found, since I was probably having to use more brain power than I realized. The colour overlays are really helpful, though it's interesting; I've been reading a midwifery textbook from 1809 for research purposes and the print is small and there's no option for overlays, but I don't have any issues with it. It's a scan of the book's pages, but there's an option to have it display as computer text and when I switched to that, I found it harder to read than the original scans. Maybe something to do with the font? I'll have to do some experimentation and see what works best for me when I'm writing.
I hope your brother comes out of it quickly and fully and that your sister-in-law doesn't get it or has the mildest of cases.
Unfortunately, his wife has tested positive now, and so has her aunt, who lives in a care home. She visited her a few days before my brother tested positive and had to have a negative test to get in, which she did, so she couldn't have known she was contagious. Last we heard, everyone is okay. Everyone is vaxxed and boosted, so that should help keep things mild, hopefully.
It's very frustrating that so many powerful people have decided it's just time to move on. It's good that you still have many mask wearers. Here in Florida, I don't think 10% of my church congregation masks any more. I do. I'm not particularly vulnerable, but how could I live with myself if I didn't take precautions and then found that I'd spread it while asymptomatic? And I know too many people who have had long covid to feel quite secure myself, even vaxxed and boosted.
It's so easy to spread before you even known you have it (as evidenced by my SIL and her aunt). And long COVID is no joke, plus we really don't know what the long-term effects of even mild cases are. I'll be wearing my mask until I feel safe, regardless of what the mandates are. It's unfortunate that the people who should be wearing a mask (those most likely not following precautions) are the ones who won't be wearing them. We're still very careful about who we gather with, where we go, and how close we get. I know we're lucky that we can afford that, and I feel for people who have been forced back to work or can't risk the time off.