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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4250485, member: 27832&quot;]Hmm. <i>Maybe</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>In the run-up to Y2K, there <i>were</i> people who were saying it was an overreaction, and that it wasn&#039;t necessary to do all this disruptive work. Fortunately, experts were able to overrule them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The current threat has come up a lot more quickly, and hard knowledge is harder to come by. The disruptive preparation (travel bans, closing schools, etc.) is more disruptive. I&#039;m seeing posts that <i>those measures</i> are an overreaction. I strongly disagree, but I don&#039;t think anyone can yet be certain.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fighting in the aisles to panic-hoard toilet paper? Yeah, that&#039;s an overreaction.</p><p><br /></p><p>One humble request: when you talk about Y2K, <i>please</i> don&#039;t say it &quot;was a theory&quot; or &quot;never materialized&quot;. Us old coders think you&#039;re talking about the <i>code</i> problems, not the global collapse, and it gets us all riled up. As you&#039;ve seen. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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