It's just dawned on me that if somebody is unkind enough to point out to the doom mongers that the 80,000 deaths in 1968/9 didn't result in the country being paralysed, their respond would doubtless be - 'But if we had been in charge then (they would have been children at the time) our measures would have saved thousands of those 80,000'.
Trouble is, had they been around back then and had those measures been implemented, heaven alone knows what state the country would have been in, and how much it might have recovered even by now
Mike