While “data” is never the plural of “anecdote”, I can bail onto this bandwagon.

In a surreal debate about vaccines with one of those typical anti-science dicks ranting about something like cinnamon or horse laxative as a cure for covid instead of a proven vaccine to render it survivable, I earned myself a FB report – as that’s easier than spending more than 2 minutes in the reading room ‘researching’ things.

Suddenly, my Portal unit died. As I’d used the same account to set up the video chat where I was chatting with my mom while she was convalescing, it apparently shut off while I was under suspicion of whatever I’d done to hurt Bobby-Joe’s medical feelings or so. And, for all its warts, the Portal-TV was a fantastic geriatric-approved device whose only achilles heel was being linked to an account that can earn a ban from someone - using a state of the art electronic device to associate, connect, fragment and de-fragment a radio-based message to send their thoughts and converse with someone a thousand miles away in the blink of an eye - who felt my opinions about their uneducated solo attempt to discredit the work of teams of experts in their field working together with the absolute state of the art equipment through unparalleled cooperation …

… was somehow racist.

So I couldn’t talk to my mom through her voice-activated TV which, while that should be on a mycroft or so, was at least a very intuitive and capable luxury item that worked once she prepared by switching it on and removing the lens cap.

So I have a new FB account just for the portal unit. It has only 4 friends, all family with portal-TV covid units.

That segregation of accounts is key.

I have to add, too, that I’ve only seen a few videos - vodcasts? vlogs? - from Mr Rossman, but I do like the style and manner and depth to which he reports and opines on things. It’s thought-provoking, it’s intelligent and it’s also entertaining (Hi 'Berry).