When I complained it was hard for me to breathe wearing the mask and I almost passed out the Health Director had three choices:
1. Try to repeal the mask mandate.
2. Express compassion, let me know that my experience qualifies as a medical exception (no doctor's note needed per the ordinance), and offer to let the library know or give me a letter that I would not need to wear a mask there. Note if I really do have a psychological issue like OCD this also qualifies, as schoolchildren with behavioral issues are exempted from the mandate.
3. Double down on the mask mandate (even while he took off his own mask in city hall the night of our meeting so he could be more clearly heard on his cell phone).
He chose #3.