Alright.. it just occurred again.. and I attempted to connect to a site (zoom) via app and then browser and capture the dnsmasq log entries..
dnsmasq.log
May 13 09:01:27 dnsmasq[15713]: query[A] zoom.us from 192.168.1.2
May 13 09:01:27 dnsmasq[15713]: dnssec retry to 127.0.1.1
May 13 09:01:29 dnsmasq[15713]: query[A] zoom.us from 192.168.1.2
May 13 09:01:29 dnsmasq[15713]: dnssec retry to 127.0.1.1
May 13 09:01:30 dnsmasq[15713]: query[A]
www.google.com from 192.168.1.33
May 13 09:01:30 dnsmasq[15713]: cached
www.google.com is 142.250.115.104
syslog (in that time window with ext ip replaced x.x.x.x)
46:c4:bf:cc:4c:71:d2:41:a8:52:bf:d3:80:ff:d8:36:65:7e:ed:5a from 192.168.1.2:63607
May 13 09:01:12 kernel: [BLOCKED - INBOUND] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=30:9c:23:2a:04:c1:f8:a7:3a:f0:18:19:08:00 SRC=192.241.202.59 DST=x.x.x.x LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=245 ID=54321 PROTO=TCP SPT=44912 DPT=27017 SEQ=1804932432 ACK=0 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
May 13 09:01:25 kernel: [BLOCKED - INBOUND] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=30:9c:23:2a:04:c1:f8:a7:3a:f0:18:19:08:00 SRC=78.128.113.250 DST=x.x.x.x LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=240 ID=54422 PROTO=TCP SPT=57380 DPT=6085 SEQ=379285569 ACK=0 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0
May 13 09:01:58 kernel: [BLOCKED - INBOUND] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=30:9c:23:2a:04:c1:f8:a7:3a:f0:18:19:08:00 SRC=92.118.160.25 DST=x.x.x.x LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=248 ID=8563 PROTO=TCP SPT=50955 DPT=37777 SEQ=1054015984 ACK=0 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B4)
May 13 09:01:59 kernel: [BLOCKED - INBOUND] IN=eth0 OUT= MAC=30:9c:23:2a:04:c1:f8:a7:3a:f0:18:19:08:00 SRC=162.142.125.253 DST=x.x.x.x LEN=44 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=42 ID=59166 PROTO=TCP SPT=36743 DPT=52200 SEQ=1009283121 ACK=0 WINDOW=1024 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 OPT (020405B4)
I was able to run "service restart_dnscrypt-proxy", and then it began working after that...