My "compliance" was when I was out with my mother and didn't want to start a scene for her inconvenience, and that ended after a couple weeks of it. Masks and I don't get along even on a good day, and the effectiveness was zero to begin with.

Or, at least, very close to zero. I'm sure some droplets hit cloth, but at that point you're just playing shotgun roulette and suffering an oxygen deficiency for the privilege.

I wear a respirator when I airbrush, because a P100 will catch atomized paint. A cloth mask is not even in the realm of a P100.

But if they ever try to force masks on me again, I'm getting a WW2-era style full face gas mask, a military style jacket and fatigues in Russian colors and doing everything I can to shame the "clothies" for not wearing the correct mask and making them feel uncomfortable by just my presence.

Because now my mother is on the same page as me, and therefore I don't care about making a scene anymore.

Expensive glorified cosplay, but I learned pretty quick that it's easier to shame these people from a similar position instead of an opposing one.

And yes..shame. It's high time to shame them. The tables would turn if they tried to force compliance.