I guess it'd have to be handwaved after a while. Too complicated for everyone to keep track of.
[Fuck knows he's going to be doing that a lot. Having to slog through everyone's individual sob story was already becoming insufferable.]
And I'm guessing the 'other things' part is where the problem is with those? Maybe you weren't far off when you wondered if they'd helped with the collapse of this America place.
[note to self, look into these for future sampling.]