I don't think that is crazy at all, our whole system incentivizes corporate behavior exactly like this.

From your tone I assume that you would expect Sig to come forward, analyze, discuss and hopefully solve these problems as soon as possible.

But that would be utterly stupid from their point of view. Public opinion cares very little about the details-- anytime you get associated with issues like this is simply bad for your brand/stockpric: downplaying, denying and gaslighting is absolutely the way to go here for the company.

IMO to fix this you would need to strongly increase personal liability specifically for misinformation and delays in cases like this, and we would need to reward good behavior (proactive fixes, honest communication).

But just look at the whole tetraethyl lead debacle: This cost at least a million years of human lifes (!!), after the lead industry denied known problems and purposefully obstructed/discredited critical researchers (e.g. R. Buyers and H. Needleman) for decades. I strongly believe that a number of decisionmakers should have ended up with a dead penalty or lifelone imprisonment, but there were ZERO consequences for anyone involved, and current rethoric around "deregulation" makes it obvious to me that zero lessons were learned.

I agree culture these days is default corrupted and crazy. Still crazy though. I think we need good old fashioned justice.

Eh, SIG is losing a lot of customers for life with the way they are treating this situation.

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