Nah, don’t even worry. There’s not a single thing to apologize for.
As far as hostility towards people wearing masks, I don’t even understand. What is someone going to do, walk up to a little old lady, or a little old man, or a cashier in a mask and go all hostile on them? Such an action, in my opinion, would be outrageous.
These events this years have affected us all in a number of different ways. Some people afraid of this, other people furious at that, people seeing people they saw as friends four months ago now as enemies or opposing factions.
It’s a truly remarkable series of events. It reminds me in a way of a particular episode of The Twilight Zone Monsters Are Due on Maple Street, where a neighborhood is slowly turned against each other during an alien invasion where the aliens are simply toying with the neighborhood watching them go mad.
A very similar thing is happening here. Normalcy has been drastically altered, and the effect is tremendous.
Here’s news from Texas:
Reopened restaurant told workers: Don’t wear face masks — or don’t work
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dallas-restaurant-workers-face-masks-work/#app
In Iowa, many government and businesses ‘strongly recommend’ wearing PPE and social distancing.
I’d guess the violent response against someone wearing PPE is like the flubro attacks that we used to see on these threads (and have fortunately gone away for the most part).
On FR, the result is hurt feelings and time-outs. In a grocery store or Walmart, someone can get hurt. The old lady can end up in the hospital, or the ant-mask fanatic will end up attacking someone with a CCW permit.