Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 26, 2021

Can’t do this with strangers ……. well, ever really. But it’s still a bad idea virus-wise at this time.

Well, that’s what you get for being cuddly, Winslow.

Oh! By the way, are you a carrier?

One of the benefits of the vax’d, resuming semi-normal life. But this seems a bit premature.

Its Confederate Heroes Day. There, I just let the dogs out.

Doesn’t anyone wear a mask in this strip? The pandemic is not over, we are in the 4th wave of deaths because American’s are too stupid to follow the rules of Public Health. And then there is the constant flow of disinformation from the vicious lying anti democracy right that murders their base.

MI a right wing state(lege is still hard right despite Dem Gov) is now the worst state in the US for COVID, lots of MAGAts finding themselves in ICU struggling to breathe. All because Faux Opinion and Propaganda Network has been claiming its all a fake(even tho the talking heads do their shows from home and every one of them got a vaccine

Know what I miss. People smiling. Having a casual encounter in public, catching each other’s eyes by happenstance and the both of you spontaneously breaking out in a smile at the same time. Then just going about your business knowing that you just met a total stranger and shared a bit of humanity.

“I am so glad that I no longer have to shake hands with those disgusting people.”

We’re experiencing a resurgence here in Peoria IL.Our Guv’s been trying to stem it. The Guv’s of our neighbors (IN & IA) not so much.

In Ohio, despite the GOP Governor trying, the GOP congress is still intent on being both RED & Dead. All we can do is NOT hug, and hope for the best.