In some manufacturing facilities — called fabs — workers donned masks and head-to-toe smocks called “bunny suits” before entering “clean rooms.” Those protective measures weren’t meant to shield workers from the industrial solvents, adhesives, and other chemicals in the room; they were for the chips, which were so sensitive they needed to be shielded from airborne microbes.

Nothing had been designed to protect the people making them.

Damn, I've never considered this, but its really not surprising