I should have just agreed, because it is manageable if you have enough undertakers.
Yes, you should have. <g>
Manageable means manageable, not curable. Manageable means that we know what steps need to be taken, that we have an infrastructure set up to take those steps, and that we can take them. You're right that that would have to include having enough undertakers.
Manageable is distinguished from unmanageable, which means chaos, panic, hopelessness, oblivion.
Or, rather than agreeing, you could have just said that "manageable" isn't good enough for you, that if a lot of people die it matters not to you whether the process of them dying is manageable or unmanageable, that both are beyond your threshold of fearsome or beyond the publics threshold or panic so differentiating between manageable and unmanageable is splitting hairs. I could understand that argument. Had you made it. |
