(April 13, 2020 at 11:06 am)arewethereyet Wrote:(April 13, 2020 at 10:51 am)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: I was a reworker at Radisys working on Intel multibus boards. These were running in power plants and sundry other industrial equipment. The Y2K threat was real because BIOS back then would only index the last two digits so imagine a power plant thinking that the generators hadn't been serviced for 100 years! They would have been unable to turn them on. Around that time I spent lots of hours at work erasing e-proms and loading different firmware into them because they still used UV erasable ROMS. I knew enough kooks back then that were hoarding chicken and other bullshit prepper things like buying generators. sheesh
Not being terribly techno-savvy, even I understood the reason for concern regarding dates and how they were coded.
What still baffles me is the hoarding of toilet paper and paper towels because of a respiratory illness.
I suppose I can understand the lack of cleaning/disinfectant products and antibac soaps but the stockpiling of TP is a head scratcher.
I read an article about that specific response and it doesn't make sense but that's why it makes sense. The gist is that the news about this virus is triggering a fight or flight response and since you intelligently know you can do neither of those you are left with this need to do something, anything, to show your preparedness and protect the things that matter to you. This manifests itself in buying all the soap, buying all the TP (maybe because there were rumors that covid-19 is a poopy cold), or even hoarding cooking oil! Seriously the TP makes more sense than mass buying cooking oil!
