Where are you that masks are still required? Few people around my part of the world (FL, USA) wear them. Even doctors have stopped wearing them.
As for the other problems, I think western civilization (sorry if I incorrectly assumed your country of origin) is in decline. We have too many people with competing interests fighting for control. Advanced societies cannot sustain themselves indefinitely. Due to our technological progress, I suspect we wouldn't backslide as far as Europe did after the fall of the Roman Empire, but no one can really know until it happens.
Regarding climate change, I am a Doomer. I would be willing to try some of the more aggressive policy changes environmentally conscious Leftists have proposed, but I'm not sure they would work. I honestly don't see how it ends without lots of death and a drastic dip in our living standards. We can either choose how we get to that point and make the ride as gentle as possible or throw caution to the wind and let global warming and/or peak oil decide for us. In the best case scenario, we live a lot like the Mennonites or Amish. Most of us return to working the fields and will be poorly educated, but we can meet our basic needs, and the environment isn't ruined. Any remaining fossil fuels are burned in small enough quantities that it no longer affects the climate that much.
To return to one of the major topics you actually mentioned, I am not surprised that censorship and digital surveillance are the norm now. There was simply no way governments would give the people that much freedom. In many ways, anonymity has been abused. Just take a look at the dark web and all the terrible things that are traded there. If you read some of the early libertarian/anarchist theorists in computer science, their naiveté about human nature is breathtaking. That they thought we would all sing Kumbaya in utopic geocities and see unprecedented human flourishing makes for good sci-fi only.
