I would start telling everyone to take photos/videos of their body without tattoos just in case the police are looking for a story and actually make u get tats after sending you to El Sav prision.
This would be multi generational fuck up. This isn't a light switch that you can turn off and then turn back on in a few years because you realized you fucked up. All of that human capital will move on to other opportunites and a lot of them will not come back. Decades of elite expertise just gone from the American intellectual ecosystem. Up there with the biggest brain drains ever.