If previous history is worth illuminating, no, not one damn ounce of difference.

And this isn't close to the Y1K prediction of the coming of Christ and Armageddon. A large percentage of some populations gave away everything, so they could be poor and salvation worthy.

Each and every failed "end of the world" prediction has only resulted in the "Gloom n' Doomers" picking up and starting all over again, recalculating their new "eotwawki" dates... I remind the readers, the Y2K scenario? The Rapture? Now for 2012, the musket is reloaded...

Jammer