[conspire] Y2K: Re: CABAL in the time of Cholera^W SARS-CoV-2: March event cancelled

[Michael Paoli]

Here here!  The reason Y2K passed as a mostly non-issue,
is because of the tons of work folks did before Y2K.
I know I was very busy hammering away testing and remediating
*years* in advance of Y2K.  Heck, I remember some work weeks
having put over in excess of 100 hours(!) in the week, to
meet some of the Y2K testing and compliance deadlines ...
and that was in 1998!

So, yeah, it wasn't a non-issue because nobody did anything.
It was a (mostly) non-issue because a whole helluva lot of
folks put in a lot of work, testing, correction, etc., to be
dang sure it would be as much a non-issue as feasible.
And ... so it was.  And like many that worked on Y2K,
when Y2K rolled around, did I get to go out and party
like everyone else?  Nope, sat around, watched, tested,
retested, made damn sure it continued to be a non-issue
throughout.  And so it was.

Heck, in major operating system vendor's allegedly fully patched
and Y2K complaint code, I found Y2K bug(s) ... perhaps bugs that
no one else had found ... and got 'em reported, and the major
OS vendor, to patch 'em.  That stuff didn't just "happen".
Someone had to test, report, fix, repair, ...

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] CABAL in the time of Cholera^W SARS-CoV-2:  
> March event cancelled
> Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 14:44:18 -0700

> Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):
>
>> 5. Mostly for Reuben
>> Saw this yesterday, thought of you.
>> https://twitter.com/rachsyme/status/1238869169262727168
>
> <mode="80s"> Let's careful out there. </mode>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJDQewSMB-E
>
> Something Deirdre retweeted from (@kcolbin) also seems relevant:
>
>   Here is the thing to understand about flattening the curve.
>   It only works if we take necessary measures, before they seem necessary.
>   And if it works, people will think we over-reacted.
>   We have to be willing to look like we over-reacted.
>
> Remember how, because of long, painstaking work, 'Y2K' didn't take down
> computing?  And then, a long sequence of fools proclaimed said threat
> overblown?  We'd (ideally) like this year's outcome to be similar.
>
> The rain having cleared, there's lots of opportunity for walks out in
> the Big Room with the Blue Ceiling.