We’ll never know for sure the consequences had we not taken the actions we did.
I liken it to Y2K. A lot of people complain it was a “non-event”, and it was over-hyped. But it literally took millions of man hours to make it a “non-event”.
Y2K was a different issue. There was code across so many different systems that did need to be changed to prevent errors. Not all systems were critical, of course, but also consider data corruption and the time it would have taken to try to deal with that.
I was working on y2k issues for several years on both critical systems and noncritical systems.
Healthy young people are not dropping like flies from the Wu Flu. It’s a nasty bug targeting the already compromised and the very elderly almost in full. We seem to be forgetting that 15% of the 80+ cohort die every year.
I’ve seen nothing that warranted $10 trillion in spending and nuking the economy. If that’s the bill for a virus with limited reach what will we do when the real super bug hits?
Is that true? Can you point me to a good summary article on Y2K? Because I read that countries like Italy that did practically no modifications, no rewriting of code or whstever, fared exactly like countries who put in a million man-hours. It was a dud.
No?
“We’ll never know for sure the consequences had we not taken the actions we did.”
Exactly.