Jeff Danziger for April 01, 2020

Social distancing…

Sad…

Such are our times.

Nope… this one’s so subtle that it’s opaque… any clues?

King Kong is wearing an M95 mask!!

^ : Well good, no N95 materials were used in making this cartoon…

I’m sure many a New Yorker would feel safer alone up there with him than in the streets with COVID-19.

He’s attempting to socially distance himself, but it’s so difficult in the big city.

Some shut ins and home bound people are asking ’what’s the problem with self isolation’?

King Kong is distancing himself from all the idiots gathering in citIes who are reckless and or don’t believe this is real! They’re on the beach’s, parks, they flocked to the docks to see the Naval Hospital ship, they went, to en mass, to church services….these are the people who Should be arrested…some were but not enough! Can’t fix stupid!

That’s maintaining some social distance – as long as the windows stay closed!

And NOW Dolt 45 is saying that it looks like 100,000 people will DIE, and it’s basically ALL DUE TO HIS bungling of this entire situation from the Git-Go!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-just-admitted-downplayed-threat-014846770.html

King Kong’s wearing a mask.

https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/videos-empire-state-building-transforms-giant-siren-alarming-new-yorkers

NY, we’ve got a monkey on our back. And he’s got cousins. Many cousins!

Where Kong find a mask, let alone one big enough to fit him ?

He’d be safer on Skull Island

Thanks for the laugh today. Just thinking, where would you get a mask big enough for King Kong? Who would put it on him?

Excerpt from a column by conservative pundit Jonah Goldberg (the entire column is well worth reading, but for those who want to “cheat” I’ve posted longer excerpts over at Tom Toles): “For the past three years, as a conservative who just can’t board the Trump Train, I’ve been urged by people, including friends, to put my personal feelings aside and support the president. Such demands to become a cheerleader were easy to dismiss during a time of peace and prosperity as mere exhortations for partisan loyalty.But this is a different time, and it’s a real dilemma. Do you go along, even at the margins, with the fiction that Trump is up to this challenge? Or do you shine a light on his inadequacy?I think the answer depends largely on what lane you’re in. Governors and public-health officials, such as Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, need the support of the president to do their jobs. If that means swallowing hard and praising the president when it’s not warranted, that’s a small price to pay, at least during a crisis.”

Before I realized it was the worlds largest N95 mask, I thought, “WTF, why does King Kong have a Binky in his mouth?”

It took me a while to decide if the background was showing dark buildings or dark headstones.

Chomsky: Ventilator Shortage Exposes the Cruelty of Neoliberal Capitalism

There’s no profit in preventing a future catastrophe. The government could have stepped in, but that’s barred by reigning doctrine: “Government is the problem,” Reagan told us with his sunny smile, meaning that decision-making has to be handed over even more fully to the business world, which is devoted to private profit and is free from influence by those who might be concerned with the common good. The years that followed injected a dose of neoliberal brutality to the unconstrained capitalist order and the twisted form of markets it constructs.

The depth of the pathology is revealed clearly by one of the most dramatic — and murderous — failures: the lack of ventilators that is one the major bottlenecks in confronting the pandemic.

https://truthout.org/articles/chomsky-ventilator-shortage-exposes-the-cruelty-of-neoliberal-capitalism/

the monkey is wearing a mask