What did Sun Tzu say? "To surround an enemy, you must leave a way of escape."
On the other hand, one of my favorite quotes is from Anton LaVey: "It's too bad stupidity isn't painful." People are masterful at avoiding pain and responsibility. I know positive reinforcement works best. But it's hard to resist the urge to clock people when they do something stupid. On 6/25/20 1:15 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > Just after I posted my own rant about my mother's context in an assisted > living, I got a cryptic txt from my sister who lives in Tucson where my > mom is. She got a call from the Assisted Living that a (the first) > COVID19 case was reported there and they were increasing the > restrictions/care and planning a facility-wide testing starting > today. They couldn't tell us (or her) if the case was among staff or > residents or if it was in the assisted living (~50) who interact more > with staff but don't come and go much, or the fully independent (~500) > who come and go freely. > > My MAGA hat wearing sister/family are speaking on issues as if they > somehow became democrats... I highly doubt it... but I think maybe > they are trying to eat their MAGA crow in small doses so they don't get > the double-stuffed footlong MAGA hoagie handed to them all at once in > November. AZ is key and I *hope* they are somewhat typical of their > demographic (upper-middle/professional/boomer/white). -- ☣ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
