Bald faced hornets in the South will leave you alone unless you antagonize them. But them yeller jackets are just looking for a reason to gang up on you.
I’ve had my experiences with yellow-jackets, all right, but running like hell usually works; those white-faced demon wasps will chase you and can kill you.
We have three wasp traps st up strategically around our wilderness home and harvest dozens of the bad boys every day. Here in southern B.C. yellow-jackets are rare this summer, thankfully.
My BIL came upon a hornet nest in the woods when he was a young man. He hit it with a stick. He won’t EVER do that again, I guarantee.................