Mission accomplished. That was the whole purpose of generating panic, wasn't it?
Can they turn off the panic now?
More governing by consensus, hey? He who would live by the polls shall surely die by them, when the inevitable reversal sets in. The supposed benefits were front-loaded, but that means the reckoning and restoration will be coming at us like a hurling locomotive approaching an unguarded crossing.
And we will be out of fuel sitting on the tracks.