It was never about science or the virus. We give way too much power too quickly to bunch of people who have the leaway to be as authoritarian as they want.
If you're fearful, then get yourself a sophisticated portable air filtration system.
In the real world, it's pretty well established principle that you can't deliberately or recklessly toss harmful items onto other people’s person's or property without being liable for the harms thus incurred, and that restrictions reasonable in proportion to the risk can be adopted to prevent you from doing so as well as you being held responsible if you nevertheless do so.
This idea that there is an entitlement to recklessly endager the public health without constraint or penalty is novel and bizarre.