Blamed for coronavirus at a Taco Bell

I was at a Taco Bell with two friends and had just received my drink cup while waiting for my food. There were two other customers in the store, both white men. As I pushed the button on the soda dispenser, one of the men yelled, “The oriental touched the dispenser! Someone stop her!” As I turned around confused and as my friends moved around me to block this man from getting closer to me, the man pointed at me and yelled, “She started this whole thing!”

This was a complete stranger who blamed the Covid-19 pandemic on me just based on seeing my Asian eyes peeking out from my mask at a fast food place in South Chicago. I made eye contact with the other white man waiting for my food his food several times during the whole ordeal. Each time, he immediately broke eye contact and went back to scrolling through his phone. That hurt too.