Yes. It Was A Ridiculously Generous Offer.

One even their pitying rivals hoped they'd take up. 

http://www.news.cn/english/2021-12/19/c_1310381204.htm

But they blew it.

So now they're going to have to send a gift. To begin the process of them starting to participate in reality again.

Or they're condemning themselves to an Austrian cycle.

Of increasingly desperate cover-ups.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/15/us/school-district-parkland-settlement/index.html