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Everything short of properly fitted N95 masks are indeed better at protecting others from you, surgical masks for example aren't designed to seal your face, they're designed to keep you from breathing directly into the thing you're working on, like an open thoracic cavity, but they're useless for protecting others when you go to the grocery store because you're just leaving trails of potentially infectious air shot out past your cheeks.

On the other hand, I saw a thing yesterday which I am LITERALLY ANGRY WITH RAGE over having never seen before: https://twitter.com/FixTheMask/status/1249354757308735489/video/1

Simply doing that turns a surgical mask from a directional protection to a goddamn N95 level equivalent both ways!

Nevermind, I don't care.

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NO, deaths per day is not useful, deaths per day says what happened last month, cases and positive rate are both up.

Banks is not nearly widely known enough considering how awesome the universe he painted is, it's a damn shame that more people probably learned of the Culture due to the references on SpaceX barge names than due to the books themselves.