While I believe your response is valid and I would cheer it on if I was in your presence, I don’t even dignify someone like this with a response, at least where I live. They want a response, whether it is obedience or loud defiance because they get what they want either way. Either they make you submit, or you empower them and bystanders by giving them a perceived oppressor to rally against. In their mind, interaction validates their self-importance. If I lived in a remotely red/purple area where a bystander might change their minds about masks after a verbal lashing, I’d grace her with a response. Otherwise, in the dark navy blue Cucksville I unfortunately live in at the moment, all an angry outburst manages is to reinforce the clueless liberal’s belief that people who don’t follow mask mandates are unhinged and that “right-wing” people are violent misogynists. For example, in the case of the Covington kid incident, his calm refusal to not engage with the people deliberately trying to goad him into flying off the handle was much more impactful that getting into an impassioned altercation. In sleepy suburban liberal America, simply not acknowledging someone’s authority or even their presence is potentially a harsher rebuke than a righteous outburst. Cold, impassive civil disobedience and fiery, vocal rebellion are both aspects of strength that have changed society in the past, and they both need to be relearned.