"At that point, I said that whereas I had risked my life to defend my country while in the Air Force, I was not willing to risk my life to teach a class with an unmasked student during this pandemic," said the college professor.
You ever be such an asshole your professor resigns in the middle of class.
If it's cruel irony and you've thought of it, it happened. You can just operate off that presumption and not keep up as much on the specifics.