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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf all the testing and self quarantining and cancelling events and such works
and we can somehow avoid a true epidemic...
We will hear from now till doomsday how it was a hoax.
Just like all the preparation for Y2K stopped a potential disaster made it a hoax.
coti
(4,612 posts)We can slow it down somewhat but most people are going to get this thing within the next year or two.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Inoculating uninfected to cut it off from the majority would be great.
exboyfil
(17,862 posts)TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)People are already dying and the media coverage, along with social media, has pretty much made that an impossibility.
Y2K was never going to be the problem the media made it out to be. The "potential disaster" was largely a media fabrication.
This is not Y2K.
edhopper
(33,467 posts)It wasn't the end of the world, but it would have caused major disruptions.
TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)No, that simply wasn't going to happen. We were aware of the problem, aware of the scope, and companies took the appropriate steps to avoid issues. It was never going to be the doomsday that some predicted.
Would you argue that we're approaching this the same way?
edhopper
(33,467 posts)big precautions to make sure it did not happen. Because of those precautions the disruptions never happened. But many think the whole thing was a farce and a hoax and there never was any danger of anything happening.
So if all the actions now stop this from being a pandemic, I can see the ones who now say it is a hoax saying that it proves them right.
OhZone
(3,212 posts)to collapse the economy, and even cause deaths by disrupting aircrafts, and interfering in emergency response.
TwilightZone
(25,426 posts)We were aware of the problem, aware of the scope, and companies took the appropriate steps to avoid issues. It was never going to be the doomsday that some predicted.
TexasProgresive
(12,154 posts)Im with you on y2k. People just dont know all the work that was done to prevent disaster. Perhaps they should of let some minor but spectacular failures to happen.
LisaM
(27,792 posts)People got complacent under Bill Clinton, and complacent under Obama. Now look.
TexasProgresive
(12,154 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,576 posts)with too many people getting sick at once, but nothing we can do will stop it altogether. Chances are most people will get it sooner or later, but it's better to get it when the hospitals can actually help you if you need it.
Crunchy Frog
(26,574 posts)I think our goose is cooked.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,304 posts)edhopper
(33,467 posts)because next time, and there will be a next time. People will ignore the warnings.
genxlib
(5,518 posts)Including the connection to Y2K.
There must be a name for this kind of fallacy.
I remember one of the maddest I have ever been at the TV was during an episode of Penn & Teller's "Bullshit". The particular episode was about the Environment.
They interviewed this clown who was adamant that environmental regulation was an enormous wasteful boondoggle. His reasoning? The environment has been steadily improving for decades.
Javaman
(62,497 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)a lot of the time, but I know plenty of people who are anti-social.
And even I cherish my alone time.