And I take that very seriously. But I thought to myself, it’s more that people just want to live a normal life.

This kind of smug 'we see you and we hear you' followed by a tacit rejection of whatever it is we just said is the most enraging part of talking with libs. Just say you want us dead! Stop the act, stop pretending, and just say the quiet part out loud the way the fascists have no issue doing.

Also, while I commend any covid conscious people taking a stance no matter how small, I can't help but find the framing of not masking as a microagression laughable. Greeting a mixed gender group with "hey guys" is a microagression. Not wearing a mask during an ongoing pandemic, a mass disabling pandemic that has made all hell break loose for immunocompromised people, isn't a microagression: it's violence. It's a clear use of violence against the disabled by our ableist institutions, and the fact that powerful healthcare professionals can go along with the pretend end of the pandemic is evidence of a rot at the core of the healthcare system. Shame on them.