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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 242 points 8 months ago (59 children)

Similar with Y2K

it was only a nothingburger because it was taken seriously, and funded well. But the narrative is sometimes, "yeah lol it was a dud."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I can't remember the name but I think this is some kind of paradox.

Like the preventative measures we're so effective that they created a perception that there was no risk in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's called the prevention paradox: It's when an issue is so severe that it is prevented with proactive action, so no real consequenses are felt so people think it wasn't severe in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago

Case in point: Measles. It was a thing when I was a kid. Then it wasn't. Now my kids have to deal with Measles because we can't teach scientific literacy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

that waste of effort cold war... /s

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