Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 30, 2020

Schools are even worse around here.

Local (Obnoxious) Morning DJs plan to spend the week talking about all the COVID problems with sports. I’m sure it is a slow lead up… probably going to be Friday… but they plan to discus Football Players in big plastic bubbles while in play.

There is nothing that is “Normal” any more. We should give up looking for it.

IF and I say IF we had used the closure in March and April well, we could  have re-opened carefully by now. But that’s quite apparently not possible for most humans… and utterly impossible for democratically elected officials.

That the fat one singing?

I get the feeling that the learning curve has dropped significantly below the X-axis…

We managed to do it, but it has taken 3 months of relentless grind and we are still not back to normal yet.We have not had a single new case in the past month. At the end of this week we transition to CoVid-Normal. Where the price is constant vigilance, frequent testing, ubiquitous contact tracing and wearing of masks in indoor public spaces.

The return to normal will only be accomplished when our federal government is no longer infested with scientific illiterates who don’t have enough common sense to listen to scientists or deem it unprofitable to listen to them. Sadly, many small businesses will never recover but billionaires increased their net worth by over $600 billion in the first six months of the pandemic.

I’m checking out hazmat suits on Amazon. I need something to wear to go grocery shopping.

If you think it’s bad now, wait until 2 weeks after the Thanksgiving family gatherings and the Black Friday crowds. https://tinyurl.com/y6o8ghuj

It may be more frightening. Somehow there is a dangerous (to the rest of us) mentality that has developed with the recent announcement.

“Hey! We have a vaccine. We can do what we want and go wild.”

For the lowly educated a vaccine does not mean cure and it will take months, if there are no bad effects in the general population, to make it to everyone. Probably the same people who think that being tested negative on Tuesday means you can safely visit Granny on Friday.

I’m positive that being negative is a positive.

Off-panel, that virus cloud is waving flags that say “COVID 2020: F*** Your Feelings”.

I think that’s a snowflake that fluttered down onto the sign

Three weeks ago, Maryland’s positivity rate was 3.9%. Two weeks ago it was 5.5%. Last week is was 6.6%. The curve, she is not flattening!

My little county in Kentucky, with less then 15,000 people now has close to 550 cases, up from a total of 2 in early September! THANKS, trump!

It’s smaller than the flea that transmitted the plague, and probably smaller than the 1918 flu virus, but, like many pests, it wins by out-producing its hosts, being able to attack from almost any direction, immune to most preventive measures, and relying on the ignorance of its target population. That last one is its greatest weapon.

I was told that the media is spreading unwarranted fear and terrorism by reporting on Covid cases and deaths. Wiley is just contributing to it to their sick opinion.

Here is another example of spreading unwarranted fear and terrorism!! That is what I hear from Covidiots!

Yeah, there’s no going back to the way it was. After the new normal normalizes, it’ll be a welcome relief to have a strong central-powered government come in and bury the bodies and quell the anarchy.

The more we test, the more people with postive anti-bodies will show up…meaning, they had it, they got over it, they got on with their lives…BTW, if you had SARS 15-20 years ago, you will show positive on your Covid test.

Where most is defined as 37%, an odd number almost exactly the same as the percentage who support the Traitor.

Sure brings out the “best” in us.

There will never be a back to “normal”, that boat has sailed. To much has been lost and to much has been learned. Adapt or die. It’s what we do.

I want to hear from the tooth fairy on this subject

As the toon shows, this has been the pattern of Covid 19 namely that it seems that when the virus is under control, the damn thing comes back. The vaccines will have to be our salvation as we haven’t got the sense God gave a tick.

“I fought the bug and the bug won / I needed money ’cause I had none / I fought the bug and the bug won.” Apologies to “I Fought the Law and the Law Won” – Music and lyrics by Sunny Curtis (1959).

We have 4 times more covid than any other country because republicans keep spreading it around.

No children, expanding the March/April closures would not have meant we could have reopened carefully now, because the purpose of those closures was to try to ensure we didn’t run out of hospital beds, not eliminate the disease. We still would have this cycle.

What is sadly ironic about this cartoon is that the same thing happened during the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 as well as earlier plague outbreaks in the 1800’s in Europe- people did what was necessary to get the outbreak under control, then decided they had done enough and reopened in all cases against the advice of the scientists and medical experts of the day and had a second surge that was far worse than the first. Hence my both least and most favorite quote- ‘Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it, those that know history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it….’

People, huh? Desperate for extinction.

I speculated this would yo-yo for a year. I’m not even right, just sad.

People learned too late that it is in the air; the air you breathe in and the air you breathe out. Masks that don’t fit over the nose (but it keeps slipping, FIX IT!), greedy failing to help the needy, distributing lies as though they were a vaccine.

This won’t be the last, but one of the viruses, someday, may be the end of us. Is this how global civilizations end? In ignorance and disbelief?

Or not.

Isn’t it more like the Covid Era denial curve?

Just a reminder, a long learning curve means slow progress. Time is the horizontal axis. This is a great example. We’re moving with great deliberation.

We have multiple vaccines waiting for distribution, wear the mask and stay 6 feet apart until you get your shot, but business needs to stay open. When you get your second shot, you can take your mask off. If I still had a business, I would give a big discount to every customer that proved they had the shots.

I saw a social media post from a business today that said “Now that a vaccine is available, we’re taking reservations for January.”

I had to wonder whether the business owner realized that the vaccine doesn’t do anything until some critical mass of the population has it inside of them (and that ain’t happening in 4 weeks).

…and right behind the virus comes the lawyers to sue the sign maker for faulty product.

OMG!!! I wonder if there are lawyer viruses!?!? They must be making a killing…oops, my bad.

What is interesting is that if everyone had a year supply of food and such and stay out of debt and have a substantial savings account, as a certain church has told their members for years, we could stay locked down for 6 months. (Some people would still go nuts though)

Had Trump invested the time, effort and money, he spent on the ‘Big, beautiful, impenetrable wall’ and all his other nonsense around immigrants, on COVID, he would probably still be President. But then if he as smart enough to do that he wouldn’t be Trump.

A message from God?

Nothing like fear mongering to whip a populace into submission…

and IF it weren’t for china none of this would have happened. IF my grandma had balls she’d be my grampa.

They’re too smart for that. Those are the idiots that are going to give them fertile reproducing space! For Free!

People are leaving the GOP in droves…

In pine boxes.

But isn’t the vaccine to stop COVID-19 on the way from Pfizer and/or Moderna?

Do you think if we spread the rumor that one of the side affects of surviving Covid 19 is a propensity for same gender attraction it might result in more mask wearing? Such is of course ridiculous and I do not want people thinking that such is unnatural or a disease but those who think this virus is a hoax and that mask wearing is the first step to fascism might be the most ardent mask wearers if they believed something so preposterous.

I don’t think they’re learning anything

If our govt had funded the smaller business over the few giant ones people wouldn’t be so keen to start things up again. But the Cons only like big business and Plutocrats.

here in japan the geniuses in our government decided to support the travel industry with a discount travel promotion, called ‘go to travel,’ and then the restaurant industry with a ‘go to eat’ campaign. the unsurprising result has been a huge surge in new infections, which my wife and i have named ‘go to die’…

I’m still employed. If we can make it to Christmas with sales of at least 80% of last years for the month of December I will have a fighting chance at staying employed next year

IF all open areas were raining machine gun bullets…………. I find I’m stuck to dream up an end to this scenario, save for the fact that there’d be a LOT fewer anti-bullet-proofers in this world….

Got that right! Da— liberals! They are trying their best to destroy this Great Country! Of course, they don’t think of it as great because they hate it!

Suck it up. It here to stay like the other 3 or 4 types of flu we have every year. Turn the economy back on!

Hmmm…… most people believe the Economy lives to serve the People….. not that the People die to serve the Economy.

As yes, all those celebration parties came back to haunt us.

Yea, nothing like destroying the economy and putting our school children back two grades in the name of supposed safety.