Yup, and given that we have largely managed the pandemic extremely well as a society with a competent government that has a publicly funded health care system,

Yup, and given that we have largely managed the pandemic extremely well as a society with a competent government that has a publicly funded health care system, I think it's unlikely that Facebook preventing us from reading the news via Facebook is much of a concern. We were a large consumer of news before Facebook. We will be a large consumer of news after Facebook.