Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for April 23, 2020

Don’t scare me like that!!!

I would often cough and say, “Man, this coronavirus is rough.”

(the joke was not well received, go figure)

My favorite is “Nope, still can’t breathe water.”

I hate that when that happens.

Arlo, the least you could do is put your drink down before you do your coughing fit.

That was scary for one hot second (gulp of tea).

I’ve done that with my snot.

Don’t worry Arlo, there are a lot of accusatory looks from people when they hear someone cough these days.

Who hasn’t learned to sneeze or cough into their elbow?

Hey, Janis? Er, where do you live? Sleep? Eat? “Recreate”?

I find the older I get, the more that happens.

Situationally unaware humanoids dumbwittingly blocking the aisle at the Costco? I find a few well-rehearsed hacking sounds parts the waves.

Try going grocery shopping with mild allergies and a little post-nasal drip. Desire to scratch face and the occasional cough.

my boss’s kid was outside doing yardwork and got sweaty, was sneezing. called doc and they told him to quarantine for 2 weeks. maybe i should go do some of their yardwork & i can get some time off, too!

It’s bad that the virus is here in the middle of pollen season!

she acts like it never happened to her.

As soon as you have suspicious symptoms, check your oxygen level on that nifty little pulse oximeter you have or are going to get at any drugstore, no prescription needed, ASAP. People are presenting showing very mild symptoms and roaring silent pneumonia with oxygen levels at 50% when normal is 95% or better and anything below 90% is low. See https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/opinion/coronavirus-testing-pneumonia.html for more.

Coffin-g

My sweetie freaks out every time I cough like Arlo above. My standard reply is, “If I got it, you’ve ALREADY got it too!!!”

Man, it was an accident; from Janis’ face you’d think he’d done it on purpose. Lighten up, Jan!

As long as you are coughing, you are breathing.

Coughing happens, don’t get paranoid. Course that’s easy for me to say, I cringed when somebody coughed coming toward me the other day.

What’s the difference between a “cough” and a “coff”?

Everybody coughs, but you have those people who have like a constant hacking a lung out cough and those are the ones that you don’t wanna be around anyways.

Without making any assumptions – someone want to explain the “joke” to me? As usual here, I don’t get it.

He should have coughed into his elbow

The term now is a “productive” cough, meaning phlegmy…so that’s a good cough to have as well as “down the wrong pipe” been there done that..

I have had to go out a few times since all this started and until the other day didn’t have a mask. I have allergies and tend to cough fairly often. I’ve been taking Lyft rather than public transportation, so I when I get into the car I alert the driver that I have a chronic cough. One driver from a former USSR country told me he wasn’t worried about the coronavirus because it was a hoax. He listens to a Serbian radio station and they assured their listeners that fewer than 100 people worldwide have it.

Husband is just like this – every time I cough I have to explain – tea dries my throat, food hit back of my throat etc. He takes his temperature – it is 98.1 instead of normal 97.6 he panics.

Here I am November 2020 and hoping all these people are still alive and hopefully well. It’s worse than ever use your head stay safe.