There was one episode in which a committee met in a very stark room with an individual, they brainwashed the fellow and then they repeated over and over "You are obsolete. You are obsolete.
We are there. Rod Serling was so prophetic. (Committees are killing people they deem to be obsolete.)
You are obsolete.
Your post made me think - unless you are w/a hospitalized family member 24/7, how would we know what really is happening?