Just gonna say it. We all know where those who are anti-vaccination and anti-science will go with that one. It'll be more ammo for the far Right to say, "They're Nazis" and "This is how Hitler rose to power" and "Don't foist your political beliefs on my free speech". That will get the news headlines, esp. along the lines of Fox News, Newsmax, Breitbart, etc., which will only serve to amplify their concerns. More copy-pasta and reposted memes on social media, and it will just become a bigger game of whack-a-mole. And that will only amplify the anti-vaccination message, not squash it. Not to mention the legal ramifications of the government doing this, and conscripting big tech to do this. That's a whole other can of worms that other, smarter people have expounded upon in other threads.

As someone who regularly creates content which is submitted to the FDA, I can attest the entire process is a hard uphill battle. A litany of regulatory, legal, and medical professionals is hired to ensure that anything that could be submitted for FDA approval makes it through without any issues. And that's great except among these people is a huge fear of "receiving an FDA letter", meaning a cease-and-decist. With that in mind, anyone in the process of creating information that the FDA ultimately approves has to second-guess their work, so that the review team will approve it, so that the FDA approves it. It often means that promising products and entire meaningful studies which often represent years of work from hundreds of individuals are tossed. It doesn't matter who it comes from, whether it's from a medical device company, big pharma, or yes, even Apple. It's a true grind in the worst possible way, and yes it contributes to the high cost of medicine in general.

When Adobe introduced Actionscript 3, they opened up a world of possibilities for what Flash could do. But it was destined to fail due to two things. First, when they did that it ceased to be a great designers' tool and it became a development platform. And let's face it, there are good developers and not-so-good ones, meaning the door was also open for buggy user-generated code, which probably helped erode the viability of the platform in the long haul. "Buggy Flash" was probably due to this and Adobe's inability to address all the nuances that supporting a development platform entailed. Second reason: By the time it was too late to fix things, Jobs had his iPad, and wrote his famous speech denouncing Flash. And he had good reason to promote his app store over Flash, because at the time Flash could do just about anything an app could do, but in a browser. And that meant Apple couldn't make money off of it. Plugins for the iPad and iPhone, though certainly possible, were stymied by Apple, and the rest is history.

...And nothing more. This conflict has been going on for, what, over a year now? That's plenty of time to remove any malicious code, tuck away any communications or directives that could be seen as dangerous/offensive and reposition their products as safe for use. It is in their best interests as a business to present their product offering as attractively as possible, especially when the President of Huawei's Biggest Potential Customer (the US) jeopardizes their profits. They've had a long time to wash their hands, until of course, once this is over, they make their next big firmware updates available.

Maybe oversimplification... If you've been shelter-in-place at home where you've got more access to snacks, can't exercise like normal, and then get COVID, which has forced many to stay in bed for much longer periods of time, couldn't that contribute to heart conditions as well?

I'm not a security expert by any stretch, but a friend who IS a security expert in DC posted this article about someone who reverse-engineered TikTok and what he found. Again, grain of salt, but worth a look. https://www.boredpanda.com/tik...