I'm even more demoralized than you, as I feel the problem with "the best time for advocacy is when people get burned" only manages to convert a handful of people and then a month later more new people have entered the system to replace them who know nothing about this and will adamantly claim that such a problem is impossible until it happens personally to them, which takes years and years, at which point the same thing repeats.

I understand the feeling of demoralization, but converting a handful of people is better than converting no one. Those people are now safer because of you, and that's something to be proud of.