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Wounded Bear

(58,601 posts)
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 08:20 PM Mar 2020

Message to the non-Stay Home states...

It's a lesson I learned many years ago as a young engineer.

Learn from other people's mistakes. We don't have time to make them all ourselves.

When following narcissists like Trump, who apparently never learn anything, it's easy to fall into the trap of having to repeat mistakes others have made over the last few weeks and months.

Please don't. You have to learn from other people's mistakes, or you're going to repeat them. Trust me, I know. In states where stay home orders are active, there are signs the rate of infection is gradually starting to slow a bit. In the abscence of comprehensive testing schedules it's the best tool we have.

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Message to the non-Stay Home states... (Original Post) Wounded Bear Mar 2020 OP
I'm in Florida and most people I know want it shut down. dewsgirl Mar 2020 #1
Preferably, but failing that Dagstead Bumwood Mar 2020 #3
Nooo...screw it, I wouldn't blame ya.🤣 dewsgirl Mar 2020 #4
They want to re-invent Turbineguy Mar 2020 #2
Reminds me of what I told my kid as a teenager customerserviceguy Mar 2020 #5

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
5. Reminds me of what I told my kid as a teenager
Mon Mar 30, 2020, 10:31 PM
Mar 2020

and he'd screw up.

"Son, people learn from mistakes. But it's always cheaper to learn from the other guy's mistake."

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