Folsom and nearby California towns thumbed the nose to lockdowns beginning in August 2020 or so. Large fairs and market gatherings are common by April 2022. I was the only one wearing a mask on April 24 on Sutter Street. The sky hasn’t fallen as a result.
I cough because I have a non-Covid related lung disease. I feel compelled to explain for the comfort of people around me. And I am still wearing a mask because I can’t afford to get sick since I have compromised lungs already. It’s a health issue.
I have allergies so I’m coughing and sneezing right now. Some tiny part of me feels guilty. It’s irrational, but people are so sensitized, as if the only possible reason could be COVID.
On a somewhat tangential topic…for those suffering from seasonal allergies I highly recommend Flonase(not a sponsor). I have been using it now for a couple of years and it saved me from the annual springtime torture sessions.
I hope you don’t get it ….. a lot of really healthy and young people have actually DIED, you know. Plus, I hope you don’t lose any relatives or close friends to it…I’ve lost 3 relatives and 2 friends….and another friend has long term COVID and they are not sure they will ever be able to totally recover from it! Good Luck
Thank goodness for they Hybrid schedule at work. Somebody tested positive for Covid but the suspected day they got it, and the last time they were in the office were both my work-from-home days!
When I post a source that disagrees with trump republicans, I am not posting it for them. They believe only conspiracy sources (from an unknown “person” named “Q”) that reinforce their worst beliefs. I post for those who are impartial and openminded.
It sure does. Not getting better either. Shanghai locked down, Beijing panic buying emptying stores. Gonna be rough going the rest if the year. Good thing the variants are getting milder though, so we’ve got that. So far.
They’re never going back to that café? But isn’t it the only café in town? As far as I know it’s been their one and only hangout since the strip debuted over twenty years ago.
I mean hell, you can clearly see on the door in the last panel that its name is just “Café!” You don’t get to use a name like that unless you’ve cornered the market!
I actually do have covid presently, day 10, coughing stuff up from my lungs still, so I get it. Yesterday I think I OD’d on Ricola Duals (they have cough syrup at the center) .. made for a nasty tummy ache after consuming 10+. But until that point, my throat felt better!
December 2019, there was a guy in the grocery store buying up every pork shoulder they had, and continually coughing like he was trying to hack up a lung.
ronaldspence over 2 years ago
we have nothing to fear but fear itself…and bears! Those will kill ya!
BasilBruce over 2 years ago
Was this writing done by a hack?
B UTTONS over 2 years ago
Soon to close: Kaufman Café next door to the coffin distribution
jmarkoff2 over 2 years ago
Folsom and nearby California towns thumbed the nose to lockdowns beginning in August 2020 or so. Large fairs and market gatherings are common by April 2022. I was the only one wearing a mask on April 24 on Sutter Street. The sky hasn’t fallen as a result.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
That’s one reason I prefer to wear a mask. So if I cough, people don’t look at me like that.
DennisinSeattle over 2 years ago
I have an intermittent cough unrelated to any infection, I always wear a mask when among others. This reaction is common.
Procat Premium Member over 2 years ago
At least he covered his mouth
AndreasMartin over 2 years ago
Medieval times: ’It’s the black plague! RUNNN!’Today:’Where’s your facemask, moron?!’
juicebruce over 2 years ago
You may run … But you cannot hide forever ;-)
SusieB over 2 years ago
God forbid if you sneeze! Could be allergies, or just a random sneeze, but everyone looks at you like you’re Typhoid Mary
Joseph Shelby Premium Member over 2 years ago
I hate this time of year. My cough is annual, consistent, a pain in the arse, and entirely driven by allergies.
Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago
No mask and he’s coughing into his hand.
dialyn Premium Member over 2 years ago
I cough because I have a non-Covid related lung disease. I feel compelled to explain for the comfort of people around me. And I am still wearing a mask because I can’t afford to get sick since I have compromised lungs already. It’s a health issue.
tripwire45 over 2 years ago
I have allergies so I’m coughing and sneezing right now. Some tiny part of me feels guilty. It’s irrational, but people are so sensitized, as if the only possible reason could be COVID.
HOTLOTUS1 over 2 years ago
oh, and by the way, make the businesses you’re in suffer by not going back. good luck cooking EVERYDAY when they all close
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
Wait a minute. Don’t rats carry diseases, too?
Znox11 over 2 years ago
On a somewhat tangential topic…for those suffering from seasonal allergies I highly recommend Flonase(not a sponsor). I have been using it now for a couple of years and it saved me from the annual springtime torture sessions.
dexterwhite over 2 years ago
You didn’t get sick …..
cj7ole over 2 years ago
Used to cough to cover a fart, now you fart to cover a cough.
Sonic the Hedgehog over 2 years ago
Post-pandemic scare. I understand.
F-Flash over 2 years ago
Rat & Pig are programmed just like the pandemic purveyors planned, run for your lives, quick show them the picture of the virus before they forget.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
RAT & PIG are paranoid…then wear a mask..it’s boils down to COMMON SENSE!
writerofstories over 2 years ago
I hope you don’t get it ….. a lot of really healthy and young people have actually DIED, you know. Plus, I hope you don’t lose any relatives or close friends to it…I’ve lost 3 relatives and 2 friends….and another friend has long term COVID and they are not sure they will ever be able to totally recover from it! Good Luck
dragonbite over 2 years ago
Thank goodness for they Hybrid schedule at work. Somebody tested positive for Covid but the suspected day they got it, and the last time they were in the office were both my work-from-home days!
Goat from PBS over 2 years ago
Everything feels different in the aftermath of a pandemic.
librarylady59 over 2 years ago
When I post a source that disagrees with trump republicans, I am not posting it for them. They believe only conspiracy sources (from an unknown “person” named “Q”) that reinforce their worst beliefs. I post for those who are impartial and openminded.
TheJustinator over 2 years ago
Ah-ha! Another “how was your day? good, i was-” [INSERT SOMETHING]
artmer over 2 years ago
It sure does. Not getting better either. Shanghai locked down, Beijing panic buying emptying stores. Gonna be rough going the rest if the year. Good thing the variants are getting milder though, so we’ve got that. So far.
John Jorgensen over 2 years ago
They’re never going back to that café? But isn’t it the only café in town? As far as I know it’s been their one and only hangout since the strip debuted over twenty years ago.
I mean hell, you can clearly see on the door in the last panel that its name is just “Café!” You don’t get to use a name like that unless you’ve cornered the market!
DO_WHAT_DA_DOG_SEZ (NOT THE REAL ONE) over 2 years ago
COVID-22 alert.
royclark over 2 years ago
never belived in the masks, never afraid of dying account 3 combat tours in Vietnam War
zeexenon over 2 years ago
Medical doctors are beginning to shake hands - I haven’t given one the thumb yet, but it does give one pause for alarm.
j.l.farmer over 2 years ago
That is the one bad thing now. Is the cough from a cold, clearing your throat, or Covid!
Mr.doom over 2 years ago
With Covid hysteria, you can become a pariah for coughing.
Eddie Brock over 2 years ago
yep, thats how it goes.
Cadi Fuhler over 2 years ago
There was a time when you coughed to cover up the sound of a fart. Now you fart to cover up the sound of your cough.
Bilan over 2 years ago
What do you get when Rat starts coughing?
Rat-a-patooie
Ray Helvy Premium Member over 2 years ago
True story: I tried explaining my cough was caused by me shoveling woodchips and sawdust for several days. I don’t think anyone believed me.
knight1192a over 2 years ago
Pretty soon they won’t even be able to go home.
Daeder over 2 years ago
Now, anytime anyone coughs they feel obligated to say something about how they “have allergies”.
Eric S over 2 years ago
I actually do have covid presently, day 10, coughing stuff up from my lungs still, so I get it. Yesterday I think I OD’d on Ricola Duals (they have cough syrup at the center) .. made for a nasty tummy ache after consuming 10+. But until that point, my throat felt better!
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
You guys are the ones acting like you still live in a ‘fear society’. Like the late Charles Krauthammer said, decline is a choice.
neatslob Premium Member over 2 years ago
December 2019, there was a guy in the grocery store buying up every pork shoulder they had, and continually coughing like he was trying to hack up a lung.
Sisyphos over 2 years ago
The Never-ending Psychological Trauma in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic….