That’s One Way to Protect Yourself From the Coronavirus

If you have to fly during an outbreak, is there such a thing as going too far to protect yourself? For everyone not afraid to choose maximum personal safety over blending in seamlessly with their fellow passengers,  Under The Weather Pods are here.

To help get the word out about their personal tents, Under The Weather Pods’ founder Rick Pescovitz took a flight during the coronavirus outbreak, asked the flight attendant to take this now-viral photo.

While Pescovitz’s pods are meant to keep you dry and warm during rainy and windy weather while you’re watching a game outdoors, or fishing. But, during a time when “travelers are taking unusual steps to protect themselves from the Coronavirus, from wearing water jugs on their heads to covering themselves in plastic tarps” these pods “would work on an airplane.”

And now we can all see what wearing a clear plastic pod on a plane would look like. While this certainly looks like the kind of in-flight accessory that’s bound to attract quite a lot of attention, the creator and wearer of this StadiumPod says that the flight attendant happily took his photo and that the man who sat next to him didn’t even bat an eye.”

We’re not sure if we would react the same way if we were on a flight next to someone who looks like they’re cosplaying as the movie Contagion (2011). But we’re pretty positive that it’s pretty hard to see the in-flight entertainment through a layer of wrinkly plastic and that the CDC says that you’re better off disinfecting your hands than sequestering yourself behind a barrier.

But this photo is pretty hilarious.