[adav]

Does the glass block lots of UV?

[sitkack]

Glass blocks 100% of UVB and 25% of UVA. So while you wont burn, light through glass will still cause skin damage.

[urbandw311er]

Thanks - I learned something today.

Looks like some bus companies treat their windows to block the UVA as well. Eg https://www.valleymetro.org/blog/2022/07/how-valley-metro-ke...

[sitkack]

We need a little UVB everyday to maintain melanin (skin pigment) and skin thickness. If you work inside M-F and then go hard on the weekends outdoors, you will receive disproportionate damage from sunlight.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3427189/

https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/rad...

If you are blocking UVB, you should be blocking UVA as well. The bus folks are doing some good thinking.

[Erratic6576]

So travelling for hours on the sunny side of the bus won't do anything to protect our kids’ eyesight?