Reply #81: Okay, then let's put a gun in our mouths and pull the trigger

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I have two economists telling me that the crises of '80s were worse and that we'll just have a bad recession.

I also had so-called experts telling me that I was "too optimistic" in thinking there would only be moderate
disruption to society on January 1, 2000. I was wrong -- there was no disruption.

The world's foremost astrophysicist said in 1957 that "many generations would pass before man went to the moon".
We all know what happened a little more than ten years after it.

Even the experts are guessing. All we have is a moderate amount of preparation available to us -- the rest is
a choice between optimism and pessimism. One has been shown to kill you, the other doesn't.

I'll take optimism and doubts about experts coupled with reasonable preparation.