I will not comply. Anyone asking me to my face to comply will get a polite and firm “no”, just once. Ask again I will be bat chit crazy and belligerent.
If I may….
They want to be your Overlord. That means, in many ways, they want to GET to you.
What worked for me last time, was to not take them seriously. Or more specifically, to mock them.
At least twice, last time around, when some nudnik implored me to mask up, I said “Thanks, Karen” and ignored them.
I’ve been creating some new material if this comes back. My fav is to respond to a Mask Karen or Brandon with a hand wave followed by “…and now you’re invisible.”