Was thinking that I really need the train to come quickly and then saw that someone has installed a little cardboard shrine to Mercury, god of transit (?) in my subway station
...and everybody is a little less shocked than if they announced it outright *without* the cover up, because now they are not introducing a new policy, they are only admitting what we knew was true anyway.
There will probably be more extrajudical executions from here on out. Notice how they started out clumsily trying to cover it up and now he just drops the pretense. First it was a secret, now it quietly becomes policy.