Well I keep thinking that if it were actually a deadly pandemic like the black plague or whatever; I sincerely would not need to be persuaded to avoid people. Nobody would need to shame people who didn't wear masks, they'd be dead next week. If people really were so deadly/contagious then you wouldn't walk up to them to tell them to put a mask on, you would distance yourself.

I try not to fight people about this stuff though. Partly because they're scared and pathetic but also because I think part of the design is to create enmity towards eachother. They already think you're a hateful POS for not wearing a mask, so by being polite while still refusing is a sort of victory idk.