{"id":89518,"date":"2020-10-15T00:06:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/i-wore-an-astronaut-style-helmet-for-covid-protection\/"},"modified":"2020-10-15T00:06:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T21:06:06","slug":"i-wore-an-astronaut-style-helmet-for-covid-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/i-wore-an-astronaut-style-helmet-for-covid-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"#I wore an astronaut-style helmet for COVID protection"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#I wore an astronaut-style helmet for COVID protection<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n You\u2019d think wearing a giant astronaut-style helmet over your head might attract attention, but this is New York.<\/p>\n

And so when I left my Brooklyn apartment yesterday morning sporting a rather ludicrous-looking visor meant to protect me from COVID-19, hardly anyone gave me a second glance.<\/p>\n

That is, until I headed to my local bodega to order breakfast.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan I take your picture?\u201d the man behind the counter asked me. Or, at least, that\u2019s how I think<\/em> he phrased it \u2014 through my outsized protective head covering I could hear only jumbled nonsense.<\/p>\n

And so, seeing my dumbfounded look, he relied on hand gestures \u2014 pointing to his phone and then my face \u2014 to get his point across.<\/p>\n

And so began my three hours wandering New York City in a $199 Air protection device<\/a>, which made me look like the lost member of the French electronic duo Daft Punk. It\u2019s just one of several high-tech visors now being marketed as P.P.E. to business executives and frequent travel<\/a>ers. The company that makes it, Hall Labs, initially envisioned it as luxury Bluetooth-enabled skiing gear, but quickly pivoted the design when the pandemic hit.<\/p>\n

\"Hannah
Hannah Frishberg wears a coronavirus protection helmet around Brooklyn and on the subway.<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now the company can barely keep them in stock: \u201cWe\u2019re getting swamped,\u201d said Hall Labs managing director Michael Hall, noting that his company has sold more than 2,000 units and has a significant backlog of orders.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Equipped with built-in lithium battery-powered HEPA filters, it\u2019s supposed to sift out 99.7 percent of the particles in my inhalations and exhalations. App<\/a>arently, that includes bad pickup lines, too.<\/p>\n

A man in a business suit locked eyes with me, smiled, and said I\u2019m not sure what as \u2014 again \u2014 it\u2019s really difficult to hear in the helmet.<\/p>\n

\"Hannah
Hannah Frishberg wears a coronavirus protection helmet around Brooklyn and on the subway.<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And that\u2019s the nice thing about being ensconced in 2 pounds of clear acrylic: moving through the world on a rainy day with a warm, dry bubble around my skull was in some ways a commuter\u2019s dream.<\/p>\n

On the elevated M train, I watched peacefully from my terrarium dome of safety as the borough zoomed past. I wasn\u2019t bothered by my fellow straphanger playing the news<\/a> on speakerphone a few seats down because I could barely hear it.<\/p>\n

After months of wearing a mask, I did feel oddly naked having the lower half of my face visible in public, but it was nice to be able to wear lipstick again.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Frishberg wears a coronavirus protection helmet around Brooklyn and on the subway.<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Drinking coffee, on the other hand, became a major production \u2014 and don\u2019t get me started on my hair, which suffered from repeatedly pulling the helmet on and off.<\/p>\n

Still, having a personal ventilation system lent me a sense of peace and security \u2014 a feeling that worries experts.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on what I can see, there is no way I would put that on my head,\u201d Duke University professor and co-author of a recent mask assessment study, Warren S. Warren, told The Post. He worries that a visor like the one made by Air might give its wearers a \u201cfalse sense of security.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hannah Frishberg wears a coronavirus protection helmet around Brooklyn and on the subway.<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Still, he did acknowledge that the Air is, \u201cin principle,\u201d possibly safer than a mask, as it covers the eyes (Dr. Fauci has recommended wearing goggles).<\/p>\n

And HEPA filters are \u201cpretty effective at removing particles somewhat smaller than the ones that get through a mask,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

I plan to continue wearing my helmet, not because it makes me feel safer than my masks do, but because it pairs wonderfully with my similarly astronautical Moon Boots. It also makes for a great conversation starter \u2014 although, I\u2019ll need to swap it out for a mask to actually have a conversation.<\/p>\n

\"Hannah
Hannah Frishberg wears a coronavirus protection helmet around Brooklyn and on the subway.<\/span>Tamara Beckwith<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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