> The self-declared vaccination prophets are quite exhausting to deal with.

This is no less true of the self-declared anti vaccination prophets, and their cousins the lab leakers. The one area in which "both sides" tends to be true is that there are condescending extremist never-shut-ups on every side of every issue, and even their allies often find them exhausting.

It is, but to a lesser degree because they don't have any demands like keeping me out of the public life if I don't have the correct papers or masks or whatever. Lab leakers were censored for political purposes while the question was open. Or it still is open as far as I know. Not too relevant for me personally, but I believe it shouldn't be possible to censor such opinions and that alone warrants a closer look. Self-inflicted harm in that case. They too don't have many demands.

Categorically, do you tend to believe statements that place fewer demands on yourself?

No, but I have higher demands for evidence of their necessity if they do. Otherwise I may just leave the question open.

And both sides pretend the loudest idiot of the opposition is the baseline opinion of the entire group.

Reminds me of Inception. At least when I think of the overall outcome which I get to see daily.