On NPR this morning, they described the greek thing as keeping it going in the hope of someone coming up with some as yet undiscovered solution to this mess that could fix the situation.
IOW, the situation is still them jumping off a 100 story building and now they are all the way to the 3rd floor, and they shout through an open window to the guy inside, “so far, so good!”.
But the pavement is very close now and they are still accelerating. It will not be pretty. For any of us.
I don’t remember who posted this analogy, but it’s apt as well -
two guys are “training” to jump the grand canyon.
One sits on the couch eating junk food and watching Jeopardy reruns.
The other runs, takes supplements, weight trains, and practices jumping technique.
He’s still gonna plunge to his death.
Check.