I completely agree and have found the same thing. At the beginning of the pandemic everyone I knew reached out to me and my wife to help decipher the latest science and help them stay safe. There was a point in 2021 where it started falling off, and by 2022 the same people who were blowing up my phone for info previously were openly telling me that I'd fallen for a hoax, or I wasn't informed of the latest COVID news.
I've told them all that the worst case scenario, for me personally, is that I "missed out" on a few things in life and they all end up just fine and maybe I have some regrets about how I handled it down the road, but if they're wrong they're going to have far more than some minor regrets. In the end, I just don't try anymore and I quietly wish them all luck out there.
@BE @PacificNic It is highly therapeutic to learn that other science-literate folks had the same experience