“The thing with people wanting to point to Y2K as an example of why there’s no need to prepare is a misnomer, yes nothing happened, but not because there was no problem. Nothing happened because companies and governments spent millions of dollars and IT people spend thousand of man hours fixing the problem before it could occur.”
I don’t recall hearing of anything anywhere that failed because of the y2k bug. I know that there could not have been 100% universal mitigation. Are there any examples one can point to ?
I know the locable cable company in Birmingham showed the date of 1/1/1900 on their screen for a day or so, but I am certain that would have caused something big enough to note would have been address as the warnings where far in advance of the event.
But I say each to their own, but I am betting those who don’t prep will be amoung the first to turn on the preppers either take direct action against them of ‘rat’ them out to the government as ‘hoarders’.
My experience is the such people hate being shown that they were wrong and will need to punish thoose who they seem as being foolish for being right.