You will hear some freaking out but I think this game will wind up being like every event that's preceded by a public freakout: It will be more relaxed than everyone expects.
If the global trend continues for the next 20 years, then global growth in the 21st century will ring in at a clip superior to the historic period we call the Great Dollar Standard Era from the breakdown of Bretton Woods in 1971 through the palliative Y2K freakout.
She also recommends desensitizing the (poor) cat by playing a recording of a baby crying, and perhaps having a friend's child come over to play so the cat gets used to kids, and presumably is then less prone to a full blown freakout when sticky hands grab its tail.