Thank you for the references. Finally I’ve discovered a point of difference. I think the public is as ready as it will ever be. There will be no breakdown of society or institutions because the public will simply look away if the revelations are too much to digest. Life will go back to routine quickly. Panic just takes to much energy and isn’t fun.
I noted not long ago how in the 1940s when I was a grade schooler, Mars was generally assumed to display canals thus implying intelligent life that was portrayed as little green people with eye’s protruding out on stems. No one
panicked. This meme was fully believed.