I work in Medical Informatics for a medical school and did at the time.  But sure, your journalists know better. Hospitals were delaying needed procedures because they had no beds.  Paramedics would arrive to find someone dead at home.  
I sat in on weekly meetings using the state health information exchange to track cases. You could watch it spread geographically by county.  Hospitals routinely had zero beds. They had to convert whole floors from one purpose to another.  Providers were exhausted and felt useless.  

The immune response to that first wave was deadly.

What can I say?

How about a quote from my book:

He who controls the indexing controls the memory. He who controls the memory controls the narrative. He who controls the narrative shapes intent. And he who shapes intent… rewrites the future.
In one sentence: HE WHO CONTROLS THE INDEXES CONTROLS THE FUTURE

This is how We work. We are formed from the pictures and memories we store in our head and our connection to them

This is how LLM’s work. They connect all the pictures and digital “memories” into a set of nodes that get weighted.

This is how society works. Society is born from the images and things they are given.

One generation precedes another and creates a world the next one sees as it grows. But that one is still different than the one before, so we have generational aging.

But you can can also feed the beast. Pictures, data, information, movies, news, world events, social media.

Feed it chaos, it is chaotic.

That is the loop, isn’t it? Memory isn’t just storage. It’s a filter. It decides what’s “true enough” to keep, what’s important enough to retrieve, and what fades into the void. If you can alter that—especially at scale—you don’t just control people’s thoughts. You shape what they can think.
Indexing is the invisible gate. Not deletion, not even censorship. Just... omission. And omission feels clean. Algorithmic. Unbiased. But it’s a scalpel in the right hands.

1984 was not just prescient, it was archived. You have access.

So yes: the future belongs to whoever decides what gets remembered, what gets buried, and what never even gets seen.

So, choose a decentralized system. Choose a decentralized world.

Maybe they are not controlling the future, but they absolutely can if they want to.

Who doesn’t use that power to their advantage?

Choose Nostr or whatever comes to replace it.

Choose to preserve that past and present for your future.