I'm about there myself. With most topics that are politically charged. It's just depressing and upsetting and I find myself aggravated and giving it too much focus. I've learned a lot about the shades of grey about various topics in my time posting in this subforum, and I've learned a lot about people and motivations besides my own. It's been valuable, and I've changed my opinions on some things. But I find myself wanting to participate less because it can so often be upsetting. When I disengage from the narratives being pushed by both sides, my world looks pretty good usually. When I engage, it seems like the world is about to collapse and that we're one step away from catastrophe. It makes it harder to be happy and live the best version of myself.
I'm not mad at you personally, but this pisses me off. I am SO TIRED of the polite middle ground on this talking about people taking a stand for freedom as being on the poles of extremes. I'm a moderate and centrist for god's sake, and I have been driven into opposition of pandemic policy by all of the utterly corrupt and horrendous shit I am seeing. I am connected to literally thousands of health care workers of all kinds, so perhaps I have a different view on this than the average reader.
I'm not "pushing a narrative", I'm stating what is literally happening. Maybe the world looks more rosy where you are, I don't know? Tens of thousands of people are losing their jobs without unemployment insurance in my province alone, and are expected to just go without. Them and their families. All because they made a sovereign choice to not get vaccinated. They told us two weeks and it's been two years. When are emergency powers going away? When are these draconian systems going to dissolve? When we get zero cases??
When you have moderates telling you to wake up, you should be frightened. I'm not some fringe conspiracy theorist.