It's unclear the intent of the author, but for this community it can be taken as a reminder that scandal is often ephemeral - stirring up the press and public but making no lasting change. The tragedy of a Victorian seamstress, the San Bernardino iPhone, Sandy Hook... To effect change requires a concerted, persistent, depressingly long effort to see it through, not just shouting for a bit.

I forget where I read it recently, but there was a piece about how some great strides forward were made not overnight, even though they may have seemed that way (I think the context may have been civil rights), but through decades of constant, vigilant advocacy and activism.