the article is misleading. It insinuates that an N-95 respirator would NOT be effective in protecting you from asbestos or the virus.
A respirator would need to be fitted.
I don’t use straight up fiber N-95 masks for a dust mask because they don’t fit my thin face and I can always see where the dust gets in as dirt lines on my face after taking them off. I used to wear one that has the fiber part that fits in a silicone rubber frame, in size medium. Couldn’t find any replacement fiber parts because covid so I went to the welding supply store and found a silicone framed mask that takes two fiber cartridges and looks similar to my paint mask that had charcoal filters with fiber pre-filters on top of that.
NONE of the above have ever been certified for mist or medical use. They allowed N-95 to start being used because there were plenty of them and surgical masks had run out. That happened back when Fauxi was telling us not to wear masks.
Once china was able to manufacture millions of cheap surgical masks and people at home were sewing them up fro cloth and selling them on etsy, then Fauxi changed his tune and wanted everyone to mask up.
None of it has been about following the science.
On the bright side, I’m noticing how many girls have really nice eyes now.
The article insinuates nothing of the kind. It is crystal clear that the author is speaking ONLY of cloth and medical masks. There is no discussion of of N95 masks at all.
You are inferring something into the article that is not implied.