Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 20, 2020

A house is on fire.

It has burned more than half; it is “past its peak.”

According to Trump and those over-eager to re-open the economy before it is safe, and without adequate safeguards, it is safe to go back into the burning house without any safety equipment.

Of course we must re-open the economy everyone wants that. But we must do so in conjunction with safety standards and management protocols to reduce (and manage) risk as much as possible.

This includes adequate testing, monitoring and targeted quarantining to ensure that those infected, whether or not they display symptoms, can be isolated (either kept out of work places or in separate quarantined work areas).

Wiley your mind is brilliant!!. You know we’re heading into the abyss. Stay safe everyone

Bear in mind that a bell-shaped curve covers just as much area (in this case, casualties) on the downslope that it did on the upslope. That’s even assuming no resurgence, which is in no way, shape, form, fashion, or manner guaranteed.

To quote Bonespurs, “What have you got to lose?”

My thought is that there will be a massive traffic jam at the bottom of the gap, but I’m being literal and not metaphorical.

That about sums up the current state of things

You go first.

Trumpers=lemmings?

Who is wearing a mask?

Nice analogy. Good analogy.

Apparently the bridge is pretty-well built in Australia. See you all in the good old US not too soon. We’re being very careful to be not TOO triumphal.

AND, according to Captain Clorox, the high numbers of people driving off the bridge is a “Badge of Honor”!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-calls-high-number-coronavirus-020938490.html

Spot on! Wiley, spot on.

I want to Stop! Under Construction! too.

Might as well move this strip to editorial section already

Google: Two southern churches forced to reclose after leaders, congregants get coronavirus

My only comment would be what has the country done during previous pandemics concerning the economy? Absolutely nothing. We as a country have never shut down our economy over a epidemic/pandemic disease. This is a media hyped pandemic because of the election and everyone knows it. I am not saying that the virus is not real, it obviously is. But what we, as a country, have done to destroy our economy is unreal. Open it back up. People are suffering due to not working. Let people live and work.

There is something wrong with this picture. Where are the armed, white gunmen?

Odd how the ones making the most noise about opening are the same ones who refuse to take simple precautions.

Guy standing by with mask on: “OPEN THE BRIDGE. OPEN THE BRIDGE.”

The bridge is either in England or Japan!

I was part of a construction crew repairing a bridge over a medium sized river. There were “road construction” and “bridge closed” signs everywhere. Several times a week people tried to cross the closed bridge. Blocking barriers were left slightly open to allow work related trucks upon the bridge. People who then try to cross the bridge despite work crews being everywhere. On more that occasion the driver would lay on the horn to get the work crew out of their way. Then they demanded the barriers blocking the other end of the bridge be opened. When that didn’t happen they would call the police. Several got tickets other times they would have people driving in the car get out to move barriers so they could complete the passage across the Bridge

a bit of allegory here methinks

How come the other side doesn’t have a big sign

Well, if the majority demands it, I suppose it must be okay. Right? …sigh

The problem here is, not only will those who drive into the abyss hurt themselves, they also will hurt any and all who are nearby. They’re harm is not all self-contained.

There are none so blind as those who will not see. The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.

Jeremiah 5:21 paraphrased over the centuries by John Heywood, Jonathan Swift, and Thomas Chalkley [with thanks to en.wikisource.org]

In the good old days before bridges were really high over rivers and ocean, there were drawbridges where you waited forever, and the kids hung out the windows in hopes of seeing a cool boat.

Those are all the people who don’t want to take the detour because it is inconvenient or denies them their god-given right to be damn fools if they want to. I just can’t get worked up about the lemmings any more just so long as they don’t take me with them.

“President says ‘badge of honor’ US has most coronavirus cases”

The fact that Trump would say this shows how out of touch with the real world he is. The US having the most COVID-19 cases is the result of a colossal failure in leadership that has imposed a huge cost in sickness and death on our country that was unnecessary. As a result of his failures Trump should be thrown out of office and jailed for the rest of his life.

Wash your hands, wear a mask, go about your business. Sweden got this right.

Chris Christie,at it again ;)

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This cartoon shows Repubiklan “thinking” at its finest.

set the people free!!

I love people.

Especially people in large groups.

They’re funny.

And dangerous.

A big problem right now is no one wants to do the protocols. No one is enforcing it. And it’s spreading like wildfire sadly.

What could possibly go wrong? This is a perfect bridge.

Have the drivers and passengers sign waivers first.

COVIDiots

The more apt and pertinent questions:

Who closed what HAD been a perfectly good bridge in the first place?

To be more apt about it, the bridge must still be intact, still have people replacing the guardrail that some other country took out, and the workers are just sitting around on lunch break while they wait for someone to sign off on the proposed reduction from four lanes to three while the guardrail is replaced………..

The “bridge” is NOT “under construction.” It’s been arbitrarily closed.

LOL – way too funny, Wiley.

And with adequate testing, monitoring, and targeting quarantining you can garantee safety, until the next disease.

The ones further back in line will push all the ones in Front of them into the canyon, then squeal like Pigs when They get to the front of the line.

Amen

Open it up…to quote the great prevaricator …“what the hell have you got to lose?…” god, trump has a way with words…I get all goosebumps.

As an ‘essential’ worker, I am fed up with my fellow citizens. We are still under a stay well, stay home order though things are loosening up. We have to limit how many people come into our store so we can attempt to maintain distancing. Do people come alone on their shopping trips? NOOO!!! They bring the whole family. If they would leave the extra people home we wouldn’t have, big lines of people waiting to come in. On top of that, they can be very rude about it. It has stretched our already thin staffing even thinner, with people at the doors counting the people coming in and leaving and then pulling online orders and curbside delivery. Sorry, but remodeling your home is not ‘essential’ stay home! There are many days this comic reflects my wish that they would just send everyone back to work and maybe my work would get back to ‘normal’.

For me, I’ll wait for the bridge to be completed.

What a load of carp this whole fake “pandemic” is. Actually I wish all pandemics had all the hospitals empty for lack of patients.

Live free or die! Fauci is a fake in all his predictions!