I had a big chuckle over the whole Y2K thing.
My parents are the sort who stockpile food. My mother has twice bought another fridge or freezer on sale in case an old one died, and then filled the new one too.
She was in a panic that Y2K power outages might ruin her cache of frozen eats.
She lives in Wisconsin. Y2K was to hit in ... January, of course!
I told her she could just put the frozen stuff in boxes and put it in the garage on top of her station wagon with the rest of her Christmas leftovers, and it would be safe til about March.
I was working for a telecommunications company back during Y2K ... we had spent over a year fixing and testing, luckily all the work paid off.
We'd already had a dry run on Sept. 9, 1999. A lot of old mainframe programs for phone circuits demanded a date in various date fields, no matter what. Provisioners used to get around this by putting 9/9/99 in the field for years and years ... so millions of circuits were due to shut off or have various other things happen to them on 9/9/99!
There really were loads of Y2K bugs in software, luckily, nearly all were fixed and Y2K was a non-issue.
For that other stuff you're tossing around, tin foil hats block the government mind-control rays.