.@DouthatNYT is falling for what disaster mgmt folks call the "paradox of preparedness": that when preparedness efforts prevent really bad things from happening, people who didn't see all the planning then claim that the threat of those disasters was exaggerated to begin with. https://t.co/buliKojyUO

— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) November 7, 2020

Most people fall for that, e.g. Y2K where “nothing happened.”

Well, fuckfaces, there’s a reason nothing happened!