I don't even know what a sock is, beyond the ones I put on my feet.
I damn well better win this. There is no one more intellectually consistent (partisan) than me.
And for the record, asbestos is only a health concern when two criteria meet: the material is friable and humans inhale lots of it. Ambulance chasing looyeahs have made an industry of extorting money from productive people in all insulating industries over these overwrought fears.