Omg ebola panic

[Markbnj]

Same with the Y2K bug.

"What a load of crap that was. Nothing bad happened!"

Right, nothing happened because a lot of people realized that serious shit would go down if nothing was done, so they took care of it before it was a problem. "Prevention" is a foreign concept for a lot of people.

And the difference for me there was that I am a programmer, so I knew it was crap from the beginning.

 

[Gibsons]

I miss being able to say "oh it's Ebola" when I had a sniffle or something because now I would probably get locked up either in quarantine or as a terrist. "Merica

I say that all the time. When the pollen cranks up, a lot of people start complaining about their allergies... "nah, probably Ebola."

 

[videogames101]

I can't even read news headlines anymore. They always seems like they were cut straight from a movie.

 

[reallyscrued]

Same with the Y2K bug.

"What a load of crap that was. Nothing bad happened!"

Right, nothing happened because a lot of people realized that serious shit would go down if nothing was done, so they took care of it before it was a problem. "Prevention" is a foreign concept for a lot of people.

Those two scenarios aren't even *remotely* the same.