One of the people on Ravelry who is a health-care worker observed that "eye protection" (even wearing eyeglasses) provides good anti-flu protection, because droplets can get in your eyes and glasses will stop them.

How happy I am that squeamishness won out over vanity and I never got contact lenses but continued to wear glasses instead. I will never complain about wearing glasses (well, I don't anyway) if they do help protect me from H1N1 and other bad "bugs."

(Also, of course, not touching your eyes or nose or mouth without washing your hands first helps. And of course with contacts you are touching your eyes more frequently - at least, I would be, as I have allergies and would probably get lots of itchies from contacts)

Besides, I don't think I look so bad with glasses. The old stereotype notwithstanding.

(Didn't Dorothy Parker or someone say, "Men who don't make passes at girls who wear glasses are asses"?)