Qatar Airways is requiring passengers to wear face shields. This is what health experts had to say.

Washington Post ^ | July 8, 2020 | By Natalie B. Compton

[ConservativeStatement]

As mask rules have caused some controversy on U.S. airlines in recent months, Qatar Airways is taking an even stronger stance by requiring economy passengers and cabin crew to wear both face masks and face shields on board.

In its recent announcement, the airline says it will provide passengers with a complimentary kit of disposable protective gear that includes a shield, surgical mask, gloves and hand sanitizer gel.

[faithhopecharity]

why not just put them in suitcases and shove them all in baggage?

[HighSierra5]

Or strap them on the wing with goggles?

[ConservativeStatement]

One of my favorite hockey goalie masks from the 1970s. Would it be allowed? Rhetorical.

[SunkenCiv]

Just put on the damned face covering, infidels!/blockquote>

[RummyChick]

this is well made and comfortable depending on temperature

but I use the visor version most of the time. Everyone is always asking me where i got it.

[plain talk]

Just put them in space suits or at least space helmets and be done with it.

[Retrofitted]

OMG! I thought that was a picture of a Reverend Mother from the new “Dune” movie! I guess I need to get out more!

[RummyChick]

there is some kind of inflatable suit that Simon Cowell supposedly wore on flights.

I dont remember any of the details. Maybe it was for comfort

[RummyChick]

flight attendants for Air Asia

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_hsbLfHn_n

[DLfromthedesert]

I saw a woman come into the grocery store with one of those face shields. I almost laughed out loud.

[Presbyterian Reporter]

“””but I use the visor version most of the time.”””

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And the smoked glass version is available for the Muslim community.

[freeandfreezing]

Nothing makes you feel more comfortable while flying than seeing your flight attendants wearing hazmat suits.

I guess it is better than seeing the pilot and copilot hurrying towards the back of the plane wearing parachutes.

[ptsal]

Stay home
Go for a walk

[RummyChick]

I cannot imagine what it is like in those burkas in the weather of the middle east.

I dont know how they dont pass out.

[faucetman]

Like I need ANOTHER reason to NEVER fly again!

[Dave Wright]

Teague Industries is a design firm in Seattle that partners with Boeing on its cabin designs. They have built an AirShield system that can be installed in the rack above the passenger seats and creates an air curtain like you see at grocery stores to keep in the AC. The airflow creates a blade of air that isolates each passenger from even sneezes or coughs from the others in their row. It directs the flow down to the HEPA filter intakes on the floor below the windows. It would eliminate the need for masks or face shields entirely.

[faithhopecharity]

I think I saw that mark in the grocery yesterday

[edweena]

“They have built an AirShield system that can be installed in the rack above the passenger seats and creates an air curtain like you see at grocery stores to keep in the AC.”

Now that’s what I’m talking about! There are air flow solutions out there that can add tremendously to safety and still let us hear and see each other.

[Svartalfiar]