DY: These rabbonim are paskening that there is no chiyuv to wear a mask
did you hear this first hand? did you ask to clarify – where and under what conditions?
could you please ask the Rav you asked whether it is MUTAR to properly wear a mask under different conditions, such as in the airplane when required, in federal buildings, where it is required, in the offices, where you can be fired, in the stores, in the street, where people see that you are Jewish?
If not, this would mean that this ISSUR to wear a mask is comparable to ISSUR of avoda zara.
Maybe he meant only the masks that have avoda zora painted on them?