Weeell....
I remember when legitimate IT and IS administrators would get online and talk about how we were not prepared for Y2K. What they saw wasn't wrong, but sometimes, personal anecdotes about unusual events doesn't always amount to the apocalypse....
True, this recession is different in some ways, but... it seems to me all the recessions have been different in some ways. Kind of like all the car accidents I've had in the past.
Despite all of them being accidents, they were all different in some ways as well. But I'm still alive!
So, we'll just have to see.