I was told that it’s essential to mental health to attend as many events as possible every week. When I mentioned wearing a mask or asking about ventilation I was ignored.

Who is proud if putting people at risk? How do we reduce the risk? The largest study on masks called the Cochrane shows that masks did not help. There is plenty of medical evidence that vaccines do not stop one from getting or spreading Covid but may only decrease how sick one gets, and that's debatable when looking at the actual evidence. The people who question the policies honestly believe that the measured imposed were harmful and do not do it to be evil, mean, or selfish.

It is interesting how we went from sticks and stones don’t hurt to words are hurtful and violent. And how we used to get sick without blaming the people around us

You're blaming the wrong people. Put your anger where it belongs, on the evil people who created a virus in the Wuhan lab that was meant to sicken and kill. Don't be angry at people who actually saw people they loved suffer and die from an unapproved drug, as well as loved ones with co-morbidities who died from the Corona virus.

And I bet you got the vaccine as well