If I'm willing to travel 1000 miles each way to avoid it I would think that would be self-evident. Plus people like to talk about it I think.
As I suggested in I believe my first response to you, why not willingly wear the mask at the eye doctor, offer it up as a sacrifice (say for the Poor Souls) and take that money that you would have spent to get to Florida and have Masses said instead?
Since you also have deep enough pockets to want to hire a lawyer to presumably try to tell the eye doctor how he needs to run his business and follow his licensing body requirements (in order for HIM to keep HIS job), those lawyer fees would also cover a LOT OF MASSES. Gas, accomodation, food, lawyer fees--wow, you could have oodles of Mass Stipends (say $20 stipend offering for each Mass)--you will probably run out of Priests before you run out of stipends.
Or maybe actually losing your job (if it comes to that) will be an impetus to get you to rely more on Faith, who knows?
I would be the first one to tell my husband he is being ridiculous for wanting to drive to Florida from VA for just wanting to avoid wearing a mask in the eye doctor scenario. I would be the first one to suggest having Masses said instead. He also wouldn't consider driving from VA to Florida in the first place, but anyway...
Your situation reminds me of people that drive all the way across town to save money on a grocery item. The grocery item costs $5.00 in one store, but $4.50 in another. It will take them 15 minutes and $5.00 in gas to get to the other store, but they will go anyway, just to say that they "saved" money on their grocery item. LOL.