And to add to my last comment, just to explain why I wrote things the way I did, I think the more important thing in terms of recommendations to a general audience is that in my personal experience, most people I’ve talked to have indeed upgraded to an N95, but extremely few people I’ve talked to have actually ended up wearing a P100 elastomeric. They have a ton of advantages, but most people simply don’t want to use them. So in my mask article I explain the advantages, but in my general advice article I feel like it’s more useful to simply say upgrade to a N95 or P100.
They upgraded to N95s because that’s what the media and public health experts have talked about. You’ve started to right this wrong, but you could go a little further.
Wearing a respirator such as an N95 is mostly about risk reduction rather than convenience. While there’s no reason not to mention convenience, any recommendations should be ordered mostly by risk reduction.
And to add to my last comment, just to explain why I wrote things the way I did, I think the more important thing in terms of recommendations to a general audience is that in my personal experience, most people I’ve talked to have indeed upgraded to an N95, but extremely few people I’ve talked to have actually ended up wearing a P100 elastomeric. They have a ton of advantages, but most people simply don’t want to use them. So in my mask article I explain the advantages, but in my general advice article I feel like it’s more useful to simply say upgrade to a N95 or P100.
They upgraded to N95s because that’s what the media and public health experts have talked about. You’ve started to right this wrong, but you could go a little further.
Wearing a respirator such as an N95 is mostly about risk reduction rather than convenience. While there’s no reason not to mention convenience, any recommendations should be ordered mostly by risk reduction.