I wear an N95 daily and I get a lot of harassment. The lightest is random people on the street swearing at me, and the worst so far was a guy stalking me home to tell me my mask contained 49 heavy metals and cornering me. I am quite afraid for my physical safety at this point especially as also queer and self defense in this shithole is basically illegal. People constantly ask snarky side remarks about why I wear a mask, and it’s so tiring but at least I wish it was only that and I didn’t need to fear for my safety
Some sort of cover for the mask perhaps? Gaiters seem popular among chuds on their own without masks (for that operator look) so you might slip right under their radar by wearing one over it. Otherwise I think you can act crazed or like others said invent some conspiracy theory about how it protects you from something in the air like government experimental micro-metal particles that the military is pumping in to poison the brains of the population. See they argue because they think they can intimidate you or think you’re delusional and operating off bad info, so if you lean into that only in a direction they have no talking points to deal with they’ll short circuit.
Ooh that’s smart thank you! I alwaya tried to shrug them off “yea yea” hoping they would leave me alone but guess not. Tysm!