It's not catastrophic when you get billions in government funds to knock out a vaccine in the days before and election and claim to defeat the virus when people won't figure out that it's a placebo until after the election, and then a grateful Republican party insulates you from any fallout with the justice department or FDA.
In fact, not only are you financially floated with government contracts, and legally insulated by the GoP, but your stock price soars because all the MAGA Robin Hood traders buy up shares to "own the libs," and the Robin Hood traders on the left buy in too, because they don't want to miss out on a bubble, and then of course Wall Street wants that action too.
A few months go by and the vaccine scam that gave people false security and gives rise to an extra 100k deaths is promptly forgotten as just a small good-faith mistake that shouldn't turn anyone off your company that employs so many people and does so much good in the world. And anyone who pays attention to the steady internal leaks and testimony by whistle-blowers over the next few years need to "let it go, already."
