[workingpatrick]

Reading this scares me to the point I want to wear a Surgical Mask everywhere like I'm in a Tokyo subway station.

[youareostriches]

Then you’ll simply be breathing in even more loose particles from the inside surface of your mask.

Surgical masks are made to redirect the exhaled breath of nurses and doctors away from hospital patients.

[hnarn]

He/she probably meant a particle filter mask, but it's always good to point out that this is something comoletely different from a surgical mask. Sadly a lot of people that really should depend on the particle filtration don't understand this, and wear surgical masks instead.