I really wanted to say something incisive and relevant and memorable, but I couldn't think of anything. (Except, perhaps, for 'It shouldn't have been blue to begin with!' but I fear this is rather too dependant on a particular situation to be quoted in the annals of history, unless society ends up with a really really unexpected sort of history.
Here's a somewhat desperate drabble instead. X-men movieverse, sort-of based on the drabble challenge: Someone is temporarily deprived of one or more of their senses.