Dr. Lucky Tran 
The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
Jef Poskanzer@luckytran Same brainfart happened with Y2K - afterwards lots of idiots were saying it was no big deal. It was no big deal because lots of smart people worked hard for years to fix it. This happens over and over.
Lenora@jef @luckytran exactly, my company prepared for Y2K starting 5 years before the timeline and were ready. I worked in MIS and we had a little party for the rollover at 1 am the next day
Camille Bacon-Smith@FaithinBones @jef @luckytran I know people who worked for years to make sure the electrical grid would hold at the millenium rollover. A lot of really smart people doing stultifyingly boring work who then got called alarmist when they succeeded
PhilSalkie@BaconSmith @FaithinBones @jef @luckytran
Industrial Automation professional. We absolutely busted ass leading up to Y2K, paperwork going back and forth to verify that this or that device wasn't vulnerable, that it had been patched, tracking version numbers, etc. Fortunately, back then there wasn't much control hardware yet that had a real time clock, but there was plenty of PC software doing supervisory actions.
I received commercial automation software in October 1999 that wasn't yet Y2K capable - some folks clearly weren't getting the message!