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Re: [Shop-talk] everybody OK with Covid-19?

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Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] everybody OK with Covid-19?
From: Jeff Scarbrough via Shop-talk <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 09:36:56 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 9:33 AM Donald H Locker via Shop-talk <
shop-talk@autox.team.net> wrote:


> One problem that we will run into is that if the
> measures are sufficiently effective, we won't have a catastrophe, and
> many people will complain, "Well, that was all for naught!" and won't
> want to take appropriate measures next time.


Like Y2k.  I'ts never been clear to me how much of the lack of catastrophe
was due to overhype, and how much was due to a bunch of people buckling
down and fixing it before it was a problem.

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