coronavirus pandemic continues, more Canadians are considering the plastic protective face wear.Plastic face shields are typically used in medical settings to protect health-care workers but are now being used in schools, restaurants and grocery stores in both Canada and abroad to help curb the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus.“With face masks, there’s this lack of human connectivity and sense of anonymity when you only see the top part of someone’s face,” said Xenia Chen, founder of Threads, a tights company that sells non-medical masks.“Face shields solve that issue.”In a recent opinion article published in the medical journal JAMA, three doctors out of Iowa argued that plastic face shields should be added to community.