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> Having lived through several such episodes

No, you have not ;) Noone has, and it shows what unfortunately leads to the opposite bad of hysteria (which is an much exaggerated claim for the minimum we are doing, if there'd be anything like hysteria except for activists I may find some hope back): downplaying it too much.

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I believe you may have misread them. I read this as saying they have been through several episodes of mass hysteria ( which is eminently believable, and many of us have in fact lived through several such episodes in our lifetimes, even if we aren't that old ;) ).

Nope, I read it exactly as that and imo it is ridiculous, top three episodes to clarify?

Covid-19, Y2K, Cold War. Not in that order.

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