Thank you for making this great post on important topic, and welcome to the club! The targeting of scientific, fact-based info disruptive to the dogmatic Covid-1984 narrative is really been turned up lately, targeting more content/creators, and far more zeroing out of content than in times past.
It is clearly coordinated, by a cabal of users, the vote patterns and answers given when approached make that clear, in my opinion anyway. I think layer 2 is the only viable solution, counter upvotes to the downvotes is powerless against hundreds worth in downvotes and the type of coordination we are seeing to zero out posts. Although I still appreciate @freezepeach for trying to help and offer solutions. You get it, removing content from trending is censorship. Systematically removing rewards on targeted users based on ideological difference of view is not much different than losing job for refusing to take experimental jab. Same cult, same worldview, same tactics, same goals, same results, and in both cases being hailed as ‘freedom’! It is a war against those who will not convert to this cult, and they will use every tool at their disposal, online and offline.
Keep up the good work and exposing the lies, silencing us is what they want to achieve, let’s not let that happen.