From an outside viewpoint, this is an interesting demonstration of a failure mode of the US social and political system.
Of all the hills to die on, "not wearing a safety mask" [0] is one of the more batshit crazy, but in a nation where the people have decided that "schoolchildren being slaughtered in their classrooms" is an acceptable price to pay for free and easy firearms, I guess it's not surprising that "people dying horribly, gasping for breath as their lungs fail" is an acceptable price for not wearing a safety mask.
[0] This poster's particular hill isn't the mask, but it is for some, and if I'm doing "batshit crazy", there it is.