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Nega-Doomers...Here's what YOU think By Richard A. Fleetwood - May 2001 (originally written after January 2000) Below are some of the replies I have received after posting the emails from a few "Nega-Doomers"...folks who have a misguided sense of what preparedness is all about. I will post several more of these to this page as replies and comments come in from visitors. Thanks for your support. Richard Fleetwood rafleet@gmail.com January 2000 Subj: Bravo! Date: 1/5/00 11:44:11 AM Central Standard Time From: ReehlSh (Reehl,Shaun) To: rafleet@gmail.com I would like to thank you for the humor you have enlightened me with this lunch hour. I sat at my desk, surfing survival sites to see what the response to Yawn2K would be. Your section Y2K Nega-Doomers Page had me rolling on the floor in laughter as you verbally flogged those two. Kudos! Priceless material! I didn't prepare to the extent that you or others may have, but I did make sure I had enough food, a heat source, and water to survive a few weeks if need be. Hey, you never know, right? And being a software engineer, I have some seen some pretty bad code in my life. I think that there will be some problems, perhaps minor in nature, that will surface as the weeks roll on. Thanks again - I will be sharing your material at a dinner this Friday night with friends. Good job! Shaun Subj: Had to laugh ! Date: 1/4/00 2:13:25 PM Central Standard Time From: LaLunaPagana To: Rafleet Dear Richard: So sorry, but I just had to laugh when I read the e-mail you posted from the "doomers." You are too, too correct in your responses, and I'd like to commend you on your fine efforts and your feedback to these babbling fools. True, many people feel that there was much too much hype played on the Y2K events that seemingly did not happen as the clocks began to roll-over around the globe. But, isn't that a good thing? So the people didn't take into account what MIGHT have happen on January 1, 2000, back in the 80s when they began to slap together programs for computers, and we all rushed around like chickens without heads for the past few years trying to update the outdated, and see? We managed to sail through this one, this time! But that's not what your site and web-ring is ALL about, and I'm sure if these fine, upstanding citizens ..... ooops, I just choked ..... bothered to read into what's being said on your site, and many of the other sites in the ring, they'd know that this is for those who want to survive ANY disaster that may arise as we move into the next millennium, and the next - if we're lucky! I, for one, wasn't one who was all that worried, in fact, I just went about my life as if it was to be just another day, and perhaps I'm too much of an optimist for my own good, while my brother-in-law was waiting up all night with shotgun loaded and ready for looters and the like. I'm optimistic, but I'm not stupid! I'm quite aware that things can happen when least expected - so expect them to! I can't blame him, nor anyone else who had their valid reasons for fearing what might have happened that night, or any other night to come. Y2K may be over, but we'll always have other problems and disasters to prepare for. After all, space flight was once a fantasy, and now it's real. Artificial intelligence is now a reality too, and what's to say that the machines don't take over someday? Laugh as much as the mundane and ignorant people want to ... when the shit hits the fan, we'll just have to look at them all and say - "I told you so!" Keep up the great work! Sarah Triplett Subj: anti-y2k weenies (or, I-told-you-so's) Date: 1/6/00 11:08:38 AM Central Standard Time From: bkhosken (Brian Hosken) To: rafleet@gmail.com I'm amazed at the dingdongs who email just to say "ha-ha, see, nothing happened" etc. I personally have been getting prepared and I guess you could say "being a survivalist" for 10+ years, and I look at the bright side of the Y2K thing. #1, I'm a lot more ready now than I was BEFORE y2k. #2, I hope it fired up a lot of people who will now STAY ready for the most part for the unexpected To all those anti-y2k'ers: I'm ecstatic that almost nothing happened! Am I going to sell all my food/supplies/etc., forget all my survival knowledge, never to need it again? Heck no! I'm going to be the guy holding the neighborhood together if there's a major disaster. I'm the guy who's going to provide food to half the poor chuckleheads on my block in a hurricane destruction situation, as well as preventing looting, providing emergency medical care and means of communication, and training everyone how to use bleach to purify water, how to turn off damaged gas & water lines, where to find water to drink in their home, how to make an emergency toilet, and dozens of other things needed in a disaster. I say to the y2k-i-told-you-so's, don't berate those who are prepared, be DAMN GLAD that we're here, and at least SOMEONE'S prepared, because if something DOES happen we're going to be there to help save your ass... More to come ... from you. Read this... Isn't it amazing that folks CAN agree that there are MANY things to prepare for in any place, for anything, at any time? As I mentioned FREQUENTLY before January 1, 2000, the Y2k "Problem" was always a technological disaster, NOT a natural or manmade disaster. It was something that could have been completely avoided, at minimal cost, decades ago, instead of remediation and mitigation after the fact....at a cost of more than $300,000,000,000 (three hundred billion dollars) to the nation's governments and corporations. As a human being, you KNOW that you can die or be easily injured in a fraction of an instant, in a heartbeat, in the blink of an eye. You may or may not have direct control of when or where....but with some study and true concern on your end, you can prepare and live thru anything that MIGHT happen...if you know how. That is why these pages are here. Share, care, and prepare...always. Pass the word. Living is easy when you know how. Updated May 2001 - © 2001 By Richard A. Fleetwood

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