The sooner toxic people are shunned the sooner life improves. I had a whole swarm of them on me at the beginning of 2022 and within weeks of realising what was going on, everything got a hell of a lot better.
And the same applies to people on social media too. I'm now proactively muting people I see my follows replying to retarded notes regurgitating official narrative talking points.
The less I see this shit, the more time I have to do things that matter. Distraction is the last resort of the manipulators if all other tactics are failing, and the one that shunning completely defeats.