“...I’ll do what I have to — up to a point — so I can participate in society, but grudgingly and with a message.”
Wrong attitude, comrade! You are required to LIKE wearing a mask & thus being a good person.
I have been criticized for disparaging the Covid Crisis & the politics of Covid even though I wear a mask, again grudgingly.
Why don’t you try to get yourself criticized for not wearing a mask at all?
Nobody respects “grudgingly”.