It's true that misery loves company. If you ever doubt that, look at a No-Pest Strip. It's covered with flies. You'd think that the first fly would tell any others "Go around! Go around!"

The quip riffs on the proverb “misery loves company,” arguing that people (or creatures) are drawn to trouble even when it’s plainly dangerous. By pointing to a No-Pest Strip—an insecticide strip that ends up “covered with flies”—the speaker uses dark, observational humor to suggest a kind of contagious self-defeat: the evidence of harm doesn’t reliably warn others away, and may even attract them. The imagined dialogue (“Go around! Go around!”) underscores how rarely the first victim can effectively signal the risk to those who follow, a satirical comment on herd behavior and the limits of cautionary examples.