Of course it’s a pejorative, just as socialism is as cheerful a term as chemotherapy or radIation. We should probably discuss the necessity of painting the concept as pejorative. But they are all, regardless, galloping realities, as the current solutions thrown together in panic certainly demonstrate.
When a crisis hits more people care and things get done. In normal times it is hard to give a hoot, and nothing gets done.
Only during a crisis do people think of being prepared. Like stocking up on N95 masks and p p.e.
Best to do it now, and for giggles make a list of other things that we can do to prepare for the next calamity.
Like fixing our crumbling infrastructure. Before a disaster collapses a bridge from a earthquake or time.
Covid20 or economic collapse.
Also hurricanes.