It’s been a week. The place where I work has done a thing, secretively and in somewhat bad faith. Those who were in the loop are now trying to make it look like there was no loop, while simultaneously explaining why there had to be a loop, and indeed the nature of the backlash proves that secrecy was warranted.
Except that the backlash, which is angry and public and all over the media, is significantly about the secrecy.
So now we really are in a loop, perhaps endlessly.