Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 27, 2022

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    ronaldspence  over 2 years ago

    we have nothing to fear but fear itself…and bears! Those will kill ya!

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    BasilBruce  over 2 years ago

    Was this writing done by a hack?

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    B UTTONS  over 2 years ago

    Soon to close: Kaufman Café next door to the coffin distribution

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Procat Premium Member over 2 years ago

    At least he covered his mouth

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    AndreasMartin  over 2 years ago

    Medieval times: ’It’s the black plague! RUNNN!’Today:’Where’s your facemask, moron?!’

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    juicebruce  over 2 years ago

    You may run … But you cannot hide forever ;-)

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    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

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    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.

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    Ignatz Premium Member over 2 years ago

    No mask and he’s coughing into his hand.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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    Ellis97  over 2 years ago

    Wait a minute. Don’t rats carry diseases, too?

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    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.

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    dexterwhite  over 2 years ago

    You didn’t get sick …..

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    cj7ole  over 2 years ago

    Used to cough to cover a fart, now you fart to cover a cough.

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    Sonic the Hedgehog  over 2 years ago

    Post-pandemic scare. I understand.

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    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.

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    Zebrastripes  over 2 years ago

    RAT & PIG are paranoid…then wear a mask..it’s boils down to COMMON SENSE!

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    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

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    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!

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    Goat from PBS  over 2 years ago

    Everything feels different in the aftermath of a pandemic.

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    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.

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    TheJustinator  over 2 years ago

    Ah-ha! Another “how was your day? good, i was-” [INSERT SOMETHING]

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    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.

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    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!

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    DO_WHAT_DA_DOG_SEZ (NOT THE REAL ONE)  over 2 years ago

    COVID-22 alert.

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    royclark  over 2 years ago

    never belived in the masks, never afraid of dying account 3 combat tours in Vietnam War

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    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.

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    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!

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    Mr.doom  over 2 years ago

    With Covid hysteria, you can become a pariah for coughing.

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    Eddie Brock  over 2 years ago

    yep, thats how it goes.

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    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.

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    Bilan  over 2 years ago

    What do you get when Rat starts coughing?

    Rat-a-patooie

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    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.

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    knight1192a  over 2 years ago

    Pretty soon they won’t even be able to go home.

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    Daeder  over 2 years ago

    Now, anytime anyone coughs they feel obligated to say something about how they “have allergies”.

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    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!

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    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.

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    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.

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    The Never-ending Psychological Trauma in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic….

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