Do you say anything to anti maskers in public?

[Brian37]

Yes it is a risk, and I cannot tell you how to react. I don't blame you. I usually don't say anything if there is enough distance. But if someone gets too close to me, getting the virus and dying would be painful like being beat up or shot.  Dead is dead in either case.

Most of the time when I suddenly dodge someone being an idiot, they simply think I am a coward. I could care less. If it gets the asshole to back off, let them think that.

Right--if they invade your space without a mask, all bets are off. They're deliberately putting you at risk. Fuck that.

Even outside this virus, I have let people think I am a coward, even at bars long before this.

I won't lie, I could not have been one of the soldiers who landed on the beaches of Normandy. If I had been alive back then, I would have told the draft board, ""I'd be happy to serve pealing potatos state side, but don't put me in combat, I'd get myself killed quickly, or needlessly get others killed" I am definitely not that kind of brave. 

But, I have had a couple of occasions at sports bars, where some drunk fuckface overheard me talking about a game, in which they did not like my opinion, and tried to start a fight with me.  Both times I put my hands behind my back and said, " You can beat me up if you want, but if you do, you'll be the one going to jail, not me. I am not going to fight you." Both times the guy said, "Wimp".  Fine if they want to think that, but I prevented physical harm to myself. How is that not smart?

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I say lots of things to unmasked people in public. Things like, ‘Excuse me, did you drop this? and, ‘Beautiful dog - what’s her name?’ But if you mean do I try to pick fights with the unmasked, then no.  

You’re on the fast track to a thumping, you are.

Boru

So, if they assault me, they are the aggressor. 

Please explain to me how I was wrong for keeping my distance.

I wasn't trying to start a fight by keeping my distance. He was the asshole who took offense to me keeping my distance. Why is it my responsibility to coddle his insecurities?