"Okay, that argues against toughness-from-healing, and shoots down my first metahypothesis about how the epistemic state was persisting, which was that the extra toughness came from healing, and this was considered socially infohazardous because rich people who wanted to be tougher would outbid poor actually injured people for cleric exposure."
"But then why are rich nobles ending up harder to injure? Possibly the reason for the persistent confusion is that we've got multiple things going on. And if one of those things is still toughness via healing exposure, part of the confusion persistence could be infohazard control so I guess I was actually jumping the gun on thinking that part out loud."
"Who do I check with about social-infohazards, Broom, Aspexia, Lrilatha...?"