As schools and businesses slowly reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, they are creating safety barriers to protect students or customers from each other.

Plastics companies saw a need for thin clear sheets of plastic to protect people from getting those tiny droplets infected with the coronavirus. Now national and even local plastics makers are doing what they can to keep up with the demand.

Carney Plastics business changed drastically since March.
They were known for making custom trophy cases, even ones for the San Francisco 49ers.

But since the coronavirus, they've had a different calling, instead of using plastics for displays, their products turned into potential life savers.

"Being a custom fabricator that came naturally to us. We're able to go into bars, restaurants, doctor and dentists offices and help to design and create something specifically for them," said company President, Sean Carney.

Things like a custom built box to protect doctors and nurse and other patients while they intubate covid sufferers.

"When they put the intubation tube into the patient, this protects them from the splash that they often get and that splash leads to nfection," added Carney.

In addition to hospitals and businesses,  Sean says he's working with schools like Ursuline to create barriers in areas where masks may not be worn,
like where individual instruction takes place.

"When they get into the closed spaces then they get the guards. Whether it be a surround on the desk or when there's a computer where there's nothing in front of you, there's guards on the sides. It's keeping the coughing, sneezing and breathing between individuals to a minimum," said Carney.

It's businesses enterprising products to allow us to get back to doing somewhat normal things
to make us a little bit safer as we try to live with this invisible danger.