proper corona admin, vol 96 - it's spelled with an eye

Someone noted to me last month that she considered being unable to see other people smile in public as one of the biggest problems with universal masking. It's a sensible complaint - if worn correctly, the mask covers the mouth, and as you know the mouth does a lot of the heavy lifting during a smile.

But I didn't fully agree with the observation. I think the eyes play a much more important role in a genuine smile - harder to see, but even harder to fake. If someone smiles at you, mask or not, you should see it in the eyes. I suggest the real problem of the pandemic might be something different - we've discovered that a lot of those smiles we once enjoyed weren't very genuine at all.