Y2K Rollout, Part Two I've been thinking this week of all the mass scale herd panic events in my life. I've never responded to any of these. The first one I like to laugh about--because it illustrates my own innate obtuseness which always, oddly steers me in the right direction. I was in 6th grade and they announced (I thought) a torpedo warning. They told all the kids to get under their desks. I looked around at them and they all started crying and got under their desks. I thought, what good is getting under the desk going to do? If a torpedo hits the school, I'm on the second floor, and being under the desk isn't going to help. Well, then they sent us all home and I found it out later it was a tornado warning, and the tornado never came. Then there was Y2K. Programmers made serious bank from that. Old programmers. It was hyped every day for about a year with increasing frequency until it hit the apex on New Year's Eve. When the clock struck midnight, the power was supposed to go out and bedlam was supposed to ensue. People had stocked up on supplies, cancelled their New Year's plans and I can't even remember the full extent to it because I didn't pay that much attention. It may have been some sort of mass programming experiment because that is something no one connects to Sept 11. But the two events were just more than a year and a half apart. Now we're in the midst of my sharona hell. We are all seeing the panic in our communities. The assault from the media is relentless. Thank God I don't watch television. I'm restoring an old building and will continue working on that today. Meanwhile, the library has closed, the theater has closed, and the grocery stores are running out of food.  Amazing Polly retweeted two tweets that I think best exemplify my feelings. One is from my favorite game show host as a child, and the other is from that man who may be a maniac but is usually interesting. Meanwhile, I am sitting this tornado out. John McAfee @officialmcafee We are destroying our economies, And giving up our freedoms to assemble And move freely ... For fear of a virus That has killed 100 times fewer people than the flu ... In the same period of time. We are watching a society In the throes of insanity. Chuck Woolery @chuckwoolery I have no idea why some people, a lot of people, would believe a news media that, has by any measure, has lied to them for 3+ years.