Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 27, 2022

we have nothing to fear but fear itself…and bears! Those will kill ya!

Was this writing done by a hack?

Soon to close: Kaufman Café next door to the coffin distribution

Folsom and nearby California towns thumbed the nose to lockdowns beginning in August 2020 or so. Large fairs and market gatherings are common by April 2022. I was the only one wearing a mask on April 24 on Sutter Street. The sky hasn’t fallen as a result.

That’s one reason I prefer to wear a mask. So if I cough, people don’t look  at me like that.

I have an intermittent cough unrelated to any infection, I always wear a mask when among others. This reaction is common.

At least he covered his mouth

Medieval times: ’It’s the black plague! RUNNN!’Today:’Where’s your facemask, moron?!’

You may run … But you cannot hide forever ;-)

God forbid if you sneeze! Could be allergies, or just a random sneeze, but everyone looks at you like you’re Typhoid Mary

I hate this time of year. My cough is annual, consistent, a pain in the arse, and entirely driven by allergies.

No mask and he’s coughing into his hand.

I cough because I have a non-Covid related lung disease. I feel compelled to explain for the comfort of people around me. And I am still wearing a mask because I can’t afford to get sick since I have compromised lungs already. It’s a health issue.

I have allergies so I’m coughing and sneezing right now. Some tiny part of me feels guilty. It’s irrational, but people are so sensitized, as if the only possible reason could be COVID.

oh, and by the way, make the businesses you’re in suffer by not going back. good luck cooking EVERYDAY when they all close

Wait a minute. Don’t rats carry diseases, too?

On a somewhat tangential topic…for those suffering from seasonal allergies I highly recommend Flonase(not a sponsor). I have been using it now for a couple of years and it saved me from the annual springtime torture sessions.

You didn’t get sick …..

Used to cough to cover a fart, now you fart to cover a cough.

Post-pandemic scare. I understand.

Rat & Pig are programmed just like the pandemic purveyors planned, run for your lives, quick show them the picture of the virus before they forget.

RAT & PIG are paranoid…then wear a mask..it’s boils down to COMMON SENSE!

I hope you don’t get it ….. a lot of really healthy and young people have actually DIED, you know. Plus, I hope you don’t lose any relatives or close friends to it…I’ve lost 3 relatives and 2 friends….and another friend has long term COVID and they are not sure they will ever be able to totally recover from it! Good Luck

Thank goodness for they Hybrid schedule at work. Somebody tested positive for Covid but the suspected day they got it, and the last time they were in the office were both my work-from-home days!

Everything feels different in the aftermath of a pandemic.

When I post a source that disagrees with trump republicans, I am not posting it for them. They believe only conspiracy sources (from an unknown “person” named “Q”) that reinforce their worst beliefs. I post for those who are impartial and openminded.

Ah-ha! Another “how was your day? good, i was-” [INSERT SOMETHING]

It sure does. Not getting better either. Shanghai locked down, Beijing panic buying emptying stores. Gonna be rough going the rest if the year. Good thing the variants are getting milder though, so we’ve got that. So far.

They’re never going back to that café? But isn’t it the only café in town? As far as I know it’s been their one and only hangout since the strip debuted over twenty years ago.

I mean hell, you can clearly see on the door in the last panel that its name is just “Café!” You don’t get to use a name like that unless you’ve cornered the market!

COVID-22 alert.

never belived in the masks, never afraid of dying account 3 combat tours in Vietnam War

Medical doctors are beginning to shake hands - I haven’t given one the thumb yet, but it does give one pause for alarm.

That is the one bad thing now. Is the cough from a cold, clearing your throat, or Covid!

With Covid hysteria, you can become a pariah for coughing.

yep, thats how it goes.

There was a time when you coughed to cover up the sound of a fart. Now you fart to cover up the sound of your cough.

What do you get when Rat starts coughing?

Rat-a-patooie

True story: I tried explaining my cough was caused by me shoveling woodchips and sawdust for several days. I don’t think anyone believed me.

Pretty soon they won’t even be able to go home.

Now, anytime anyone coughs they feel obligated to say something about how they “have allergies”.

I actually do have covid presently, day 10, coughing stuff up from my lungs still, so I get it. Yesterday I think I OD’d on Ricola Duals (they have cough syrup at the center) .. made for a nasty tummy ache after consuming 10+. But until that point, my throat felt better!

You guys are the ones acting like you still live in a ‘fear society’. Like the late Charles Krauthammer said, decline is a choice.

December 2019, there was a guy in the grocery store buying up every pork shoulder they had, and continually coughing like he was trying to hack up a lung.

The Never-ending Psychological Trauma in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic….