Until a year or so ago, I thought that wearing an N95 was a big deal because my experience with N95s was extremely uncomfortable hard shell masks provided by an institution that I couldn't tolerate wearing for more than 20-30 minutes. It is a massive failure of public health education that I did not know that comfortable N95s exist and they cost less than a dollar each so long as you don't buy a tiny 3 pack at Walgreens.