They think it's a LIEden accomplishment. It takes a gaggle of ignorant bureaucrats and a clue-free politician or three to imagine that one-size-fits-all works with surgical or (K)N95 masks.
I wonder how many worked up DUmmies went around for a year and a half, proudly sporting their utterly ineffective sew-it-yourself and fashion-statement cloth masks and now, suddenly, are on the must-be-(K)N95 bandwagon.
That's because the whole mask thing has been a lie from the beginning. Now they're being told a half truth. They're being told to wear the N95's (or better), but they're not being told what a fit test is and why you need it. Hell, I've seen a lot of them talk about their mask nazi'ism, and later you find out the poster has a full beard. LOL
Nothing like wearing a piece of fabric over your face that does nothing to show everyone how much 'you care.'
As to the second part of your post it was amazing to me how many of them came out saying they wouldn't give up their cloth masks, then the other side of them saying "I've been wearing nothing but N95's the whole time" to show just how superior they are to the other DUmmies.
PPE is great stuff, but there's a reason they have classes on how to use a lot of it, or you have to demonstrate proficiency with the PPE. I was in a plant last year that made us demonstrate we knew how to use our body harnesses and lanyards by climbing a scaffold outside, walking across a platform, and climbing down, while maintaining 100% tie off. Without that 'class' you couldn't enter the facility.
KC