I'm kinda worried about how "polys" would handle being wrong!

-- Vern (bacon17@ibm.net), December 27, 1999

Answers

I would love to be wrong I would handle it beautifully. If only I could be wrong. It would take a miracle like no other. I think the "doomers" would not have a problem with being wrong. However, the "pollies" certainly wouldnt. If 70% have done nothing and an additional 20% have prepared for a winter storm and 10% did the full scale of preps more would be in fine shape if right. However, if wrong....... well the rest speaks for itself right?

-- Susan Barrett (sue59@bellsouth.net), December 27, 1999.

Regardless of preparations, I think all of us can handle minor problems much better than major problems.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 27, 1999.

I'd *love* to be wrong. My spouse is a DWGI, so I've been the sole prepper here for a year. At least she knew it was something I must do (prepping,) and didn't get on my case about it. I'm prepared to be wrong, but at least if she's wrong, she's still covered, food/water/heat/etc-wise. No idea how she'd react emotionally if it's a BITR or more - time will tell. I'm the primary cook around here anyway, so it's not like she's inconvenienced trying to make use of long-term storage items.

-- Ford Prefect (bring@your.towel), December 27, 1999.

>> I think all of us can handle minor problems much better than major problems. <<

Yes. I agree.

What I don't believe is the cherished myth of the so-called Y2K debunkers, that many if not most of the people who have prepared for Y2K are forcing their lives painfully out-of-joint, to the extent that there *must* be a catastrophe for them to feel justified in their decisions. Even those minoroty of doomers who left well-paid jobs and bugged out to the boondocks are often self-selected on the basis of the *attraction* they feel for that way of life.

The handful of doomers who may have embraced a life they otherwise hate, merely to survive an imagined Y2K meltdown may well have a hard time accepting that their real and painful sacrifices were unnecessary. If it comes to that.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), December 27, 1999.

Brian:

I suspect those who have burned their bridges won't be able to admit it no matter what happens. Milne did so long ago, and lives embittered and demented but desperately convinced he's right in all things. It comes with the territory.

-- Flint (flintc@mindspring.com), December 27, 1999.

I have prepared with water, fuel, food, gasoline, medications and whatever else, I'm not sure. But everything I have purchased is usable whether there is a problem or not. If there is a problem, I am covered and if there is not a problem, I just have some supplies which I can use at my leisure.

-- Murdock (alanle@softcom.net), December 27, 1999.

I'm worried that I'll have to do burial and last rites for a polly. My property grows rocks and it will be tough digging a grave. However, I could let the vultures have a meal.

-- bardou (bardou@baloney.com), December 27, 1999.

Flint,

you wrote

>> Milne did so long ago, and lives embittered and demented but desperately convinced he's right in all things

Embittered? possibly. Demented? A bogus shameful comment that's far beneath you (I would hope, anyway).

Desperately convinced he's right in all things? So now firmness of opinion (that doesn't match yours?) is "desperately (sic) convinced"??

oh my...

You're better than this, dood :-)

-- joe (joe@adeveloper.net), December 27, 1999.

The doomers should feel guilty for prepping to save their families

instead of using the money to buy more shares of bubble.com.

-- a (a@a.a), December 27, 1999.

I'd rather kick back with my feet up and survey my tuna stash than frantically sieze up with fear, dreading the upcoming dodging of bullets - as do the pollies.

Easier on the nerves.

Pass the Dickel 101, friend.

-- lisa (lisa@work.now), December 27, 1999.

If we doomers are wrong, we get to eat our stored food rather than buy groceries for a year or so, and if a hurricane or earthquake should hit our area, we'll do just fine. If the pollies are wrong, they'll be dead in six months and it won't matter what they thought about it.

-- cody (cody@y2ksurvive.com), December 28, 1999.

Flint can't seem to go very long without insulting someone.

-- Dave (dannco@hotmail.com), December 28, 1999.

What would you expect from a stupid worthless polly?

-- (brett@miklos.org), December 28, 1999.

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes -- not that you won or lost -- but how you played the Game.

-- Grantland (Rice@herald.trib), December 28, 1999.