The most acurate, sad, truthful, relevant, obvious (to some anyway), and "informative" part of your post:

"we are suffering from a lack of meaningful information"

And it's not just about this one issue of this current thread, it is pervasive to the entire saga referred to as PTSC, IMO.

And as I see it there are many that want to obscure meaningful information, at least for the time being.

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