Just once i'd like to have experienced a mitigated disaster

@sonictyrant fun fact: the last person who mitigated a disaster was Jimmy Carter.

@sonictyrant The mitigation usually comes long after the fact. Like building codes mandating sprinklers long after a fire has killed hundreds...

@sonictyrant Y2K was a mostly mitigated disaster.

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Is that the same as a near miss with a happy ending? Like a close encounter with an earth rending asteroid that rains platinum?

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@sonictyrant This is, of course, for laughs, but solving "The Y2K problem" was an excellent example of a mitigated disaster.

It was so well mitigated that there are folks today who think it wasn't actually a big problem at all.

@chadgeidel @sonictyrant Ha! Exactly the example I thought of!

@chadgeidel @sonictyrant Also, all the pandemics that haven't happened or have been on a much smaller scale because of vaccination? The measles outbreaks and the whooping cough outbreaks that spread only so far? Mitigated disasters... That likewise make people think maybe the mitigation wasn't necessary, since in the end, it wasn't such a big deal...