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.
Leeloo@jef @luckytran
It was also "not a big deal" because it was way exaggerated. Over here, we had politicians insisting that basically anything that contained as much as a resistor would need to be tested, certified or replaced.
How do you test something ahead of time which doesn't have a clock you can set forward?
Confused Middle Aged Dad@leeloo @jef @luckytran is this because people, particularly politician types, have a tendency to either overreact or under react. So, those who knew something needed to be done, and wanted teams and budgets to do so, hyped it up to try and get any form of traction and reaction from key decision makers, at which point the dial moved from lack of action to panic.
@confusedMiddleAgedDad @jef @luckytran
I agree. But that still contributed a lot to people outside of IT thinking it was a big nothing.
Because most of the panic was a big nothing. And that panic over nothing took the attention away from the very real problem.