1.   Because everyone is buried under plastic hoods talking through gas masks, understanding the spoken word is spotty at best.

2.   Ever so carefully, we pull plastic hoods off each other while being careful not to loosen our masks.

3.   For men wearing four pairs of gloves, weighted by equipment, and peering through face masks and plastic hoods, the work was tedious.

4.   Monitors of computers are recessed beneath the surface of glass-topped desks, with a plastic hood further restricting the view.

5.   This time it is the rhea, a flightless bird, which suffered the further indignity of wearing a clear plastic hood while it ran.

6.   Players on the sidelines were able to beat the heat by sitting on benches with plastic hoods and fans that blow a fine water mist.