[DiseasedBadger]

Real question:

When this doesn't happen, what becomes of the handwringing and the doomsaying? Do we just forget the errors and self-interested lies, and treat the people disingenuously emoting over this nothing, like good people?

Serious question.

[aoeusnth1]

Handwringing can be earnest, even if it's mistaken. Judge people by what they could have known at the time, and their intentions.

But, more realistically, yeah, people will just forget all the bad predictions.