[xyzelement]

Or, you could fly and eat (and have children) to your hearts content and find out in a few years or decades that all the doomsday predictions turned out to be wrong (or, postponed another few decades again) and come out the winner.

[morsch]

Pretending like that's an option is certainly the most convenient way to go about it.

[xyzelement]

Could have been said about any prior crisis.

It seems empirically born out that continuing your life and alternating things slowly is the winning strategy, compared to changing everything on a dime because some thing is scaring you at the moment. Is seems that there's always the thing that is obviously going to kill us, that in retrospect, hasn't and just got replaced with the next anxiety.

[rcme]

> Could have been said about any prior crisis.

There is an element of survivorship bias here. The only people around are those who have survived past crisis. So you'll never meet people who didn't plan for a crisis and perished as a result of their lack of planning.