Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 24, 2021

According to a report by Trump’s own Council of Economic Advisers from September 2019, an influenza like pandemic should last about 2 years.

Leave your mask on and you will ready for Rio or Venice carnival.

Pig has been visiting California again.

That’s what’s happening right now witih the local school boards. The masks are now on, and some idiot parents are screaming about it. Meanwhile, a bunch of kids and teachers have been put into quarantine because they have or were around Covid. Sigh.

Halloween is coming up which should allow us to get more creative with our masks.

Today’s background music: “Stuck in a Loop” by Devo.

Today in line at Walgreens some Karen said " I’m fully vaccinated, can I take off this mask, this is stupid" She got 5 death stares.

Why did the nonsense phrase “mask incarceration” just pop into my head?

Some kid at school stole my mask.

Why does this sequence sound like it could be in a modern remake of “Groundhog Day”? ;D

That’s an unfortunate choice of words, Pig.

that’s another totally new experience…

The message has NEVER been that the pandemic is over. Only certain politicians ever said that. CDC guidance has changed as information on this novel virus has become clearer, but the CDC never once said it was over. It’s the idiots who refused to believe this thing was serious who have caused the magnified death count and the dragged-out time frame.

Pandemics can go on for years in wave after wave. And the longer it takes to get everyone vaccinated, the longer this will drag out.

Rather wear a mask than a ventilator, so I never complain about having to wear the former. However, I do blame the anti-vaxxers for the state we’re in (in large part).

I’m brainwashed! On with the mask! I’m red-pilled! Off with the mask!

Endemic now, not pandemic.

The pandemic is here to stay, so hopefully evolution will soon give us virus-filtering nosehair.

“No One Here Gets Out Alive” ….. The Doors

DELTA COVID?

I wonder how long the government will…uh, how long the virus will continue to “loop?”

Karate Kid 2021: “Mask on. Mask Off. Mask on. Mask off”

too bad there’s no way out, we’re doomed! :O

“Stop the comic! I want to get off!”

It’s just for two weeks, to slow the spread and flatten the curve. We aren’t trying to assert any weird sort of authoritarian dystopian agenda where we control you.

It’s groundhog day again; all over the world tonight. Sorry, Pig. Not that kind of ground hog.

This stupid pandemic will never go away. I’ve had it! Why are the medics and scientists so slow with the cures?

Ha! The same day this headline appears ‘Groundhog day has to end’: Australia plots path beyond covid zero and lockdowns

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/australia-delta-covid-lockdown/2021/08/24/6bb6131c-03b8-11ec-b3c4-c462b1edcfc8_story.html

Notice how Rat is not wearing a mask himself.

Yes, we really have been that stupid.

Wasn’t this the storyline on a TNG episode back in the 90’s?

doesn’t it go up when people remove their masks? and why do people believe the virus follows a signature in a paper. If somebody signs a paper the virus magically disappears, and obviously is subject to laws that people make up

I doubt it will ever be really over!

Then GET VACCINATED!

The best part is a study was just published that shows those stupid paper masks have an effectiveness rate of about 10%.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Sign me up Pig.

You’ve got to stop listening to the government, Pastis.

’Let’s do the Time Warp again!’

The virus is here to stay. Part of the myriad of things waiting in the wings to cull our herd. So, do everything you can to protect yourself and others, and then resolve to step off the Covid carousel.

They will do it as long and as often as they can…….

We all do, Pig. We all do.

The dog ate my mask !

Republicans politicized the wearing of masks and covid shots and are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Stop voting for murderously stupid anti Public Health disease spreading Republicans.

Why can’t we be stuck in a time loop in Wallace the Brave today?

We will get out… eventually. I’m positive.

Groundhog year.

Not a time loop. IMVPO the COVID pandemic is different and there will soon be still another variant in the US because the unvaxed are the perfect breeding ground for another, possibly more virulent variant.

Just my opinion but I hope Health insurance companies refuse to pay for any unvaccinated person who winds up in the hospital with COVID. Because there is vaccine available, and its free

https://youtu.be/4xmckWVPRaI

Veritas

Stuck in a Time Loop thanks to the Fruit Loops (you can decide if they’re the unvaccinated or the CDC)

We’re already looking at Delta and Lambda variants, who knows how many variants there will be next year.

Reality – we had to come to a comic strip to find it.

We’re stuck in 2 loops, Rat. One goes over each ear.

We’re not in a loop at all. The pandemic was never over. People just wished it was.

Anyone got Bill Murray’s number?

Don’t we all, Pig, don’t we all?!

Whiplash.

This may very well be my favorite daily strip of all the Pearls before Swine Posts.

We all want out, Pig. We all want out …