I literally only brought up masks in the context of people harassing strangers in public about them, from the responses I'm getting here you'd think I'd posted

I literally only brought up masks in the context of people harassing strangers in public about them, from the responses I'm getting here you'd think I'd posted some sort of anti-mask polemic. It's not masks I was criticising, I'm criticising the kind of profoundly obnoxious person who goes up to strangers in public to shriek at them about masks and then acts like a victim when they (quite reasonably) are told to mind their own business. It's never acceptable to harrass people in public like that regardless of how scared you are of COVID in my opinion. Do people really struggle to understand why acting like that particularly unpleasant brand of judgemental Puritan evangelist might put people off from their message? It's like any discussion around COVID has to come packaged with buckets of tedious moralising or it automatically gets dismissed as conspiratorial.