Yeah, the pattern that bothers me the most in people's behavior in social media in 2023 is the rise of "parareligious" movements which are about people finding meaning in (frequently politicized) beliefs.

The following pair of examples seems to piss everybody off. In one corner we have the person with conservative views who was just an ordinary person working, eating, sleeping and watching TV until some point in 2021 when they discovered purpose in their life because they would wake up each morning and read a lot about how everything the government about COVID-19 has done (vaccines, masks, closures, etc.) and not just wrong because people made a mistake but because of some deeply seated moral flaws in the political class.

In the other corner is a person who believes they have long COVID or who believes they are exceptionally vulnerable to COVID so when they see someone isn't wearing a mask they put on two masks. On their Mastodon profile they say they'll ban you if you ever post a selfie of yourself not wearing a mask. (I had a friend who used to be into all sorts of things like music festivals and Martin Scorsese movies but now all she wants to talk about is fashion face masks.)

The thing both of these people have in common, though they'll deny it, was their life was empty and meaningless doing ordinary things but now that they're suffering under fascist oppression or are under mortal threat by a virus every moment of their life is elevated. Either one will have a hard time accepting a "return to normal".