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There hasn't been a historical drive to demonise blind people and their parents to this day, use of racially-driven pseudoscience to justify their mass incarceration and euthanasia or invent a whole conspiracy theory about vaccines that had massive consequences in the previous pandemic. And I've never met a blind person who prefers staying blind.
I'm not, I'm only refusing to forget the many people experimented on without consent going all the way back to Hans Asperger, those who don't wish for this treatment at all, or the historical pushing of drugs like risperidone for autistic children (often with lasting adverse effects) by the pharma-"advocacy group" alliance. And above all I don't forget we currently live in a world where a bunch of countries can lock people up "for their own good" in medical institutions and apply treatments with barely any consent.
I don't think it's too outlandish of a scenario to imagine "experimental gene treatments" being imposed on a bunch of children due to pharma companies preying on desperate parents.