The space is already filled with ideas and zero action. It's annoying that people affiliated with the university are using it's name to capture journalists and simply put yet another incomplete idea out there.
If this is truly a "life and death" situation as some people cast it, then this is less than useless behavior and is probably an actively malicious plan to just make money off the whole morass.
It's an idea. Not a budget request. Let's not blow it out of proportion.