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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (7554)	8/1/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: daffodil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

>>I think your question presupposes a mild Y2K scenario--civilization is still with us, but some states and localities are having problems getting out welfare checks and perhaps providing city services In that case, government and non-profit organizations who are equipped to handle relief would be there to help. If additional support were required, they would make appeals to the public on TV and people like you and me would pitch in with time, cash, materials, or whatever was requested. I would imagine that welfare recipients are in somebody's contingency plan. If not, organizations geared toward providing food and other emergency support would come up with something pretty quickly.<< Karen, thanks for your thoughtful reply to my query. As usual, your analysis is dead on. What I'm struggling with, however, is my own personal and typical assumption that "somebody else will take care of the problems, if they occur." I'm trying to resist my own inertia, laziness, and smugness and answer the call to be part of the solution now rather than later. I've been resisting it for some time, but I think I've finally determined that, at a minimum, I need to contact the people who are running our town, the local newspaper, and some key people to try to find out who's doing what about planning for our senior citizens, handicapped people, and others less fortunate in the event of severe problems. Since I'm in one of the frozen places, problems could be significant. BTW the American Red Cross's Y2K website is excellent. As one would expect, their approach is very reasoned: they think it's always a good idea to have 2-3 days of food and water on hand, and feel confident that, in the case of a severe emergency, people would be able to get to their shelters. Read all the way down on the page for an excellent list of links, many of which I hadn't seen before: redcross.org