respectfully asked

flaunting health and safety mandates

You can be as "respectful" (or not) as you say, and you can mischaracterize it as merely "asking", but when something is a mandate you're really making demands.

demanding I get on the train

I'm going to take a wild guess that she was blocking him from boarding, and he just wanted her to get the fuck out of his way.

This is the kind of disrespect we have been fighting for years

This is exactly the kind of "respect" the mandates and those who try to enforce them deserve.

when you are ready to grow up

If not groveling at your feet to your demands makes someone a child then they should gladly embrace being a child.

"Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."