Threatened with a syringe

[Jerzees]

Welcome to the Community, @Solomon.

Before we start “preparing for communism”, let’s think like “reasonable person”.
There’s a old thread already posted at the Community that explains a lot:

What would you do: infectious threat?

Over the years I recall seeing reports of a robber approaching their victim, suggesting he had a syringe with HIV infected blood, and threatening to stick the victim unless they give up their valuables. These days, I imagine the bad guy can skip the syringe and just threaten to take off the mask and infect their victim with coronavirus. I am not quite sure about legal status of such act, if it can be considered involving a deadly weapon, and what is reasonable and allowed defence in this situat…