honestly, unsure if this is more a cisco or linksys joke at this time.

Mid Europe here, same currently.

Sadly, there is a need to say they are not 'murica now, can’t stay so much kind and polite anymore. Understandable but sad.

Nah, You are wrong OP, sorry.

Billionaires won’t care for billions of deaths, will do nothing, they have to be scary of something that do impact them directly, and the noise could be something like that.