JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for October 23, 2023

A reminder that some haven’t got or don’t want to get the message…

Um, is that a bomb-sniffing sheep?

Some people need masks like cancer patients.

Spoken too soon?

Covid seems to be cranking up again, but they just took down the plexiglass germ wall around the pharmacy counter. I’m getting mixed messages here.

A friend stopped by this weekend; she put a mask on when she came into the house. She said she was closing a real estate transaction this week, and couldn’t afford to get sick, but didn’t insist that I put one on, too..

Looks like an early Halloween

Not by a long shot.

Relax Crunchy, those are just Halloween costumes.

Haven’t seen it that bad, but I do see people still wearing masks, sometimes outdoors! I think in some cases, though, they’ve just discovered it helps with allergies or something.

it sure has… not! it just upgraded to full body suits. :\

dozens of studies show masks are next to useless, but none show effective, strange huh?

never stopped wearing it

Want to avoid the flu this winter? Wear a mask when you go out shopping and use hand sanitizer, and get the flu shot.

Remember a few years ago walking into my bank with a mask on and feeling just a little more than a comfortable!

Do they know something we don’t?

“What do they know that we don’t know yet?”

“I obviously don’t know either but I’m afraid to find out.”

During cold and flu season I wear a mask on the bus. You never know when someone’s going to sit next to you and cough all over you.

Don’t speak too soon! I read an article (not in its entirety), that Covid is back but I don’t think it’s as potent as it was.

Maybe they are protecting others from what they may have.A concept antivax/anti mask wearers, cannot understand.

Today in History (according to my local newspaper) in 2009 President Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency and in 2014, an ER physician who had recently been in Africa treating Ebola tested positive. Pre-1930s the board of health placed my mother, aunt, and grandmother in home quarantine for scarlet fever. Life is not without risk from infectious diseases which have always been around. Masking is a personal choice that reflects the degree of risk you wish to assume and people who are risk averse and favor caution should not be shamed or judged.

Sometimes, when I go to a particular library branch, I want to wear a Hazmat suit. I SWEAR everybody there has TB or something !

As an MD I have worn those at work everyday. And changed them for every patient when I had my practice.

Their pet is right… looks like another sheep.