Friendly How-to guide if you encounter a similar conversation again:
Take one look at the guy and go: "If you fart while wearing a mask, can you smell it through your pants?"
Or, you can try telling him about how wearing a mask is creating the "same symptoms as covid" because he's breathing his own carbon monoxide and bacteria. "You wouldn't lock yourself in a garage and leave your car running, would you? Especially in this heat?"
Friendly How-to guide if you encounter a similar conversation again:
Take one look at the guy and go: "If you fart while wearing a mask, can you smell it through your pants?"
Or, you can try telling him about how wearing a mask is creating the "same symptoms as covid" because he's breathing his own carbon monoxide and bacteria. "You wouldn't lock yourself in a garage and leave your car running, would you? Especially in this heat?"
Or, show him this meme.
Or, explain how the virus is 0.1 microns in size and the mask filters 0.3 microns. Essentially like throwing green peas at a chain link fence.
Hook him up with Frontline Doctors to get a medical exemption and for more info.
After all this, encourage him to do his own research if he doesn't believe you.
That's cool, man. I'll probably skip the fart comment and go with the vet-to-vet angle.