... my perspective on Life has shifted a lot from the desire to fulfill plans to the appreciation of what is.

Congratulations!

... it has been a turbulent transition into a more positive and grateful vibration

I resonate with this. Thank you for speaking it.

... it seems like a desperate attempt of the powers that be to keep a society that was breaking loose from their chains under their hand, even if for a short time longer.

This is a challenge for me. I hear you and yet I also hear hints of versions of pushing against what may be necessary collective responses that the state governments are trying to organize. I hear that you are not pushing against, but the very narrative that organized response led by govt. is nefarious seems dangerous to me. Yet I also resonate with the knowledge that the status quo is definitely fighting against necessary change. I will even say inevitable change. I'm trying to find the meeting place in that, where we are empowered as individuals and affinity communities but also assisted by larger forces such as state governments. What would healthy relationship look like at all those levels at once?