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Other than banks, there were people saying that cars would not start, gasoline would not pump, heaters would not heat, electrons would not make electricity. Don’t tell me that you were busy rewriting that stuff, too?

Electrons don't make electricity. Turbines generate it. Computers regulate the turbines and the grid that distributes the electricity. Had those computers crashed the turbines either would have stopped or run uncontrollably until they were destroyed. The grid would have been unregulated, so whatever electricity was produced could have easily destroyed hundreds of thousands of transformers and sub-stations. The end result, no electricity - for a very long time. And yes, I'm telling you someone was rewriting all that "stuff" as you so eloquently put it. You cannot comprehend the ramifications of an extended worldwide power outage, since you seem to think gas would pump and heaters would heat without it. But then again, you think electrons make electricity by magic as well, so what's the point in trying to explain reality to you?

Just know that without it, society and the market system as we know it would quickly break down. Food, necessities and fuel shortages, lack of services like medical care and law enforcement would all become apparent within days or weeks and the have-nots would soon demand what the haves are keeping from them (like that secret stash of electrons to make electricity with. Never mind that there is no such thing).

Actually, moving electrons make electricity. Turbines merely get them to move.

You conveniently forget the people who were promoting that EVERYTHING would come to a stop because of Y2K. I strongly remember that people were saying that automobiles would not start on the morning of January 1st, 2000. It was at that point that I knew that Y2K was a hoax. NOBODY came out to my car and updated the computers on it, but it started right up that morning — as did everything else.

I also remember the people (Y2K’ers) who took over our gunclub the year before that and spent the treasury to build an armored building where they could make a “last stand” after Y2K. I remember one of them saying he bought several 100 shot double-snail magazines for his AR-15 because he couldn’t take time to reload 30 round magazines when the human waves tried to overrun his position to get his MRE’s after Y2K. That reinforced it.

There is no doubt that updating old programs in obsolete codes were needed, but that should have been done anyway. I did it myself on many of the Fortran and Basic programs that I and others wrote at my engineering firm. However, TEOTWAWKI or SHTF did not happen and would not have happened if we did not do it.