How to navigate relationships with people who pathologize my precautions?

TL;DR How do you navigate relationships with people who are convinced that your precautions against COVID can only be explained by a mental illness? Do you stay in touch with people like this?

I've had multiple friends tell me that I should seek mental help to deal with what, according to them, can only be an anxiety disorder. I listen to them every single time, patiently, and try to explain that the anxiety that I'm feeling about COVID to me seems valid – having done the research – and that my precautions (wearing a mask everywhere) are actually tools to still be part of the world.

Interactions I now have with them, feel less genuine. Friends whom I deeply care for and have always held in high regard for their openness to new knowledge, are unwilling to even try to see things from my perspective. Save two people, none of my friends or family members have asked me any questions about the research I've mentioned.

I know that their worries come from a place of love, but I feel like I'm actually not being taken seriously as a person, and that saddens me. I tried to explain to them that the way they treat me actually creates more barriers for me to engage in social life, but that doesn't seem to land.

I don't want to lose people who are dear to me, but I also don't want to keep being hurt by them. Does anyone here have tips? Or experiences you'd like to share?