Planning Does not Equal Panic

I’m a cautious person by inclination, especially when the consequences of the risk are dire. Heard of Covid-19 lately? Even if the risk is low, if people are going to die, I’m not a fan. I have been called pessimistic, and I’m enough of a pessimist that I think acknowledging the possibility of bad outcomes is valuable. If nothing terrible happens, great, and don’t think your smug condescending attitude towards caution is going to sway me. The light you see at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of a fast-approaching train.

And I’m enough of a rhetoric-adjacent expert to be frustrated by the implication that any show of caution is essentially an unjustified panic.

Sometimes the annoyance of disruption is worth it, and a global pandemic is one of those times.

Meanwhile, stock up on books.