Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 13, 2021

He just wants the money; he doesn’t want to get sick or make anyone else sick.

Guy with a mask: Good guy or bad guy?

Don’t rat him out Rat.

I think I’ve seen this movie; “Everybody be cool, this is a robbery!”

So where’s his foul-mouthed girlfriend?

someday

Still feels weird wearing a mask into the bank…

If you only wear a mask because you HAVE to, you’re part of the problem.

The pandemic is still going and right now the people that are dying and spreading covid while creating new variants are the idiots that won’t get vaccinated and refused to wear masks in the first place.

After all is its original use.

He should have done that, when everyone was wearing a mask. Wig would help also.

Every says I should put my mask back on.

He’s putting his newly quarantaine-aquired multitasking skills to good use.

“Thank you, Mask Man.” – Lenny Bruce

I remarked to a person in a bank, “Who would have thought it would be necessary to wear a mask to go into a bank?” Strange time we live in!

When he told his crime buddies that he was going to a robbery, they said to get all of their lettuce. He misunderstood.

The robber should of used Cyber Crime ! He could do it from home ;-)

In Seattle, Portland, or San Fran, he’s a hero; in Texas he’s a crook.

STEPHAN REMOVE YOUR EAR PLUGS (FACT) If you have not been completely vaccinated you can get COVID 19 VIRUS and pass it on to your unvaccinated FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND ANY UNVACCINATED PEOPLE YOU COME IN CONTACT WITH. DON’T BE STUPID!!! THE STUPID PEOPLE ARE DYING EVERY DAY!!!

ALL OVER THE WORLD UNVACCINATED PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING!!!

Strikes a bad note these days.

Uh, call the police

The pollen index is finally coming down, just in time for the forest fire index to take off.

Why would he stand in line if he’s robbing?

Still wearing my mask in public closed spaces. Hate to be mistaken for a dupe of the orange menace.

My answer to that sort of thing is “You don’t know what i’ve got, so mind your own (effing) business!”

I still see people wearing masks. This will take some getting used to.

Amen, Rat.

A person at work that sits near me got COVID and I was not affected (surprised they did not have me go home and quarantine). And this is before I got vaccinated

Two things. 1, that teller looks like Han Solo. Two, whenever I went to a store during COVID and I had to put on a mask, I felt like I was robbing the place.

because of course, the sickness floating around follows the instructions of some signed paper and behaves according to some decree

Well – duh! Quite obvious it isn’t for safety – notice that he is not 6’ away from the teller!

Hello? Earth to Rat? Bank robbers have always worn masks since forever!

A pull down winter mask would be proper for a while yet.

Must be Texas open carry. Maybe you don’t need a mask, but body armor is a must!

We can only hope that a significant amount of anti-vaxers continue to go mask-less and catch the current contagious variant.

I’m still wearing a mask in places like stores and gov’t offices because the same people who pissed and moaned about masks in the first place are the ones who will lie about getting vaxxed just to not wear a mask now.

Didn’t rat work there?

Chris Mann, everyone’s favorite music parodist, just did a great “Beauty & the Beast” song on the subject. And, yes, that’s him as all the characters.https://youtu.be/9rAr6TGXBOM

Weirdest thing happened today! At the BMV, they took a pic of a kid with his mask on….I don’t agree with this…..as soon as he went out the door he took off the mask! All the employees had masks but no requirement for patrons to mask up. There were over 25 people in the small room….Im feeling very uncomfortable about that…who knows who’s not vaccinated? Where they’ve been and with who?

This was obviously drawn six or more weeks ago before the rise of the delta variant.

I still do wear mine more often than not. They’re not required if you’re fully vaccinated, which I am, but people have no way of knowing that, so if I can knock the tension level down even a tiny bit, I’m happy to do so.

yes.

Spot on… (whatever that means){[ I’m a boomer ]}

It’s a free country. I can wear one if I want to.

Eat at Joe’s.

“I’m redistributing the wealth!”

Ahh, for the Good Old Days, when someone wearing a mask was either a Bad Guy intent on perpetrating a crime or the Lone Ranger (or similar masked hero).

Rat is right. These are confusing times….

I felt sorry for bank tellers

I’m going to stop wearing a mask once the CDC stops considering CoViD a “public health emergency”.