Woulda, coulda, shoulda, mighta, if it, what if, maybe, possibly, if, if, if, if, if....
“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
— Robert A. Heinlein
That would make a great tagline, but it won’t fit................
“What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!”
— Robert A. Heinlein
Well worth remembering, and by one of my favorite authors no less.
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Does the Pope wear....
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If a bear shlts in a Japanese forest, what in the hell would some EU Bureaucratic Pope know about it?
Amen. Don’t assume, and when you are just an observer, don’t act to the psychological stresses of those actually dealing with the problem. Gunther’s statement is itself deadly. Words, too, in the wrong place at the wrong time can be radioactive. Gunther is committing murder with these words.
Fear and panic cause death.
Trouble is that for those of us not intimately involved, there are few facts.
But what we do have is not promising.