Originally Posted by
tornado163
Something I'm curious about. With an increasing number of airlines requiring passengers to wear masks, how are the airlines encouraging good mask hygiene during meal/snack service?
My concern is that when anyone touches their mask to remove it, their hands are contaminated. Their hands get further contaminated if they bring food up to the mouth. If the mask is just placed on their tray, the tray is contaminated.
Do the flight attendants pass out a new mask each time they distribute food or drinks? What about a bag for each passenger to temporarily store their mask? Hand sanitizer?
Much of this would also apply to restaurants and shops in the airports themselves. Outside of air travel, it would also apply whenever anyone is eating food outside.
Sooner or later personal responsibility has to come into play. I know some are worried that lazy and careless people will contaminate the rest of us, but other than local public shaming there isn't anything we can do about it. We are going to have to live with this virus and there aren't enough police out there to force mask wearing. It has to be a decision by each individual to wear a mask and wear it correctly. I know places like Japan and Hong Kong have very different cultures than the west, but they have proven that if the people really want to stop the virus, they can and will.
The experts have stated that all it takes is 80% of us wearing masks to stop the spread. I think we can do that.