The whiny snowflake crybabies refusing to adhere to simple public safety standards are the ones causing the need for them to continue.
Wearing a simple mask is no more a loss of “personal freedom” that wearing clothes in public, wearing a seat belt or complying with laws that “infringe” your “freedom” to drive drunk.
If you want to put your own sorry rear end at risk, have at it. But “freedom” does not include the “right” to endanger others.
In any case, as Mike notes at the end, the virus will have the last word, and then the whiny crybabies will whine that it is a “liberal conspiracy” because somehow the prominent PROgressives who they ridicule for wearing masks somehow stay alive, while the virus somehow seems to strike disproportionately at those who flaunt the rules meant to protect them (and others).
The ones I feel most sorry for are the ones who want to be safe, but are forced by economic necessity and corporate cruelty to choose between safety and economic survival.
Those who refuse to adhere to simple public safety standards should be the one sent to the end of the treatment line when it comes time to triage health care shortages that they caused to occur.
Here in the Palmetto State, our governor refused to make masks mandatory. Last week he and his wife attended a celebration at the White House, no masks. She has tested positive…
Last time it came up, Mike lived in the greater Seattle area, and I’m happy to report that at most of where he shops he’s unlikely to experience this kind of crap. We’re just as tired of it as anyone, but- what DD Wiz said above. Most folks locally are masked in public.
Tragedy is, that mask is more effective preventing the USER from infecting other people. (That is why doctors and nurses wear surgical masks). It does work preventing the user form getting infected by other people, but that is not as effective. Thus, he protects other people, who doesn’t protect him. SAAAD!
Fascinating, isn’t it, that the very same people excusing Trump’s attempt to ban Muslims said “The constitution is not a suicide pact” because they’re firmly convinced all Muslims are out to kill all non-Muslims, yet they shout “The constitution does not permit this tyranny”, referring to the public health measures now? Nah, none of their stupidity is political; nope; none of it at all. Idiots and bigots.
If only we could direct C19 toward the easy pickings…if only.
Of course, even if there was a magical way, the catch-22 is that there is always collateral damage among the innocent, and as is now happening in parts of the country with a few more months remaining the health system is on the verge of collapse.
The reports of the virus mutating now, which presents the possibility of an ineffective vaccine, raises our anxiety and fear levels. It’s as if Mother Nature is saying “OK ‘freedom fighters’, see if you can get this message”.
Stop screwing with the environment and the balance of life!
Here’s a happy thought. The virus may kill all those who don’t take any precautions, leaving the rest of us in the majority. Probably shouldn’t have said that!
The latest is that the Cyber attacks are fake news too. Trump says everyone is wrong about his buddy Putin. I guess his followers will all be in line with him about this too.
I knew Trudeau was a leftist wacko, but this is ridiculous. I really seriously doubt that people cause a scene for someone wearing a mask. I certainly have not seen it. Most public places require it. Obviously they are not doing that much to help, bc most stores, public places have required them now for months and what is happening? They say rates are going up!Go figure. But I wish GBT would leave his politics out of his comic and focus on real comedy.
How did we go from “Your right to swing your arms ends at the tip of my nose!” to “My right to swing my arms is absolute and if you get hit not only is it your own fault for not getting out of my way, your very existence oppresses me!”
That’s pretty much the way it seems in Boulder, CO – except that store employees must wear masks, too. People are supposed to wear masks to shop, but after so many assault and battery cases, most large stores just ignore people who don’t comply. – It’s very disheartening, especially receiving abuse for wearing a mask when you’re rated as “susceptible.” The country is going down the tubes….
Given enough time, natural selection should eliminate these people from the gene pool. One has to wonder why it hasn’t over the last million years or so. I guess there will always be mutations.
Doesn’t Mike live in Washington state? There may be rural pockets of mask resistance, but the whole state, even the conservative eastern part, is observant of mask wearing.
I’ve used the red light analogy many times. Who tells you that you have to stop for a red light? The “gubmint”. What happens if you don’t? Maybe nothing, maybe a citation, maybe injury, maybe death, including yours and others. So go ahead, show us your contempt of common sense.
Two points of advice for Mike:A) Don’t put your hands all over the front of your mask like that.B) If the store is full of unmasked people, get out. Don’t give them any business.
Our small town grocery store requires masks. But the MAGA convenience store the next county up doesn’t like people wearing them. And, yes, they display rebel flags, MAGA flags and Gadsen flags on the wall and the owner wears camo T-shirts.
In my 68 years, I’ve had many reasons and occasions to be cynical and flabbergasted at the depth of stupidity people (including myself) are capable of, but the anti-masking phenomenon truly beats them all.
It’s an embarrassing year to be a Republican. Our psychos now match your psychos. I’m waiting for a new centrist party that will leave both groups on the lunatic fringe where they belong.
Obviously this happens in our world, and GBT used creative license to compile in one setting the different remarks made by the ignorant who believe that their constitutional freedom gives them the right to verbally assault others.
Of all places for it to occur mine was at a municipal compost landfill. I could not risk any chance of infection because I did not want to bring anything back home. My wife was in radiation treatment for cancer.
So, I asked the guy I hired to assist to wear a mask while we were in the truck. The genius self-appointed medical expert sees us as he was about to leave and has to stop to question me. I have too much going on to be confrontational so I give the short curt answer. Here’s the clincher now.
He ends it by telling me that wearing a mask too much will compromise my immune system because I am not allowing it to strengthen. Complete disconnect with what is ongoing in the country.
Most I can say to disengage is “I have never heard about that before now.” Better than saying that I hope you get infected instead of me and you have long close conversations with all those who believe as you do.
I’ve been trying to promote the idea of “net freedom”, defined as ability minus restrictions. I illustrate it with the idea of Daniel Boone trekking thru the Cumberland Gap on his way to Kentucky. Ol’ Dan’l didn’t have to worry about no dam gubmint-imposed 70 MPH speed limit like modern travelers on the interstate highway do. But our modern motorists have way more net liberty than Daniel did, because their ability to do things is so much greater.
Obviously, only imbeciles and lunatics believe these two statements: (1) COVID is a hoax. (2) The election was rigged and Trump actually won. One statement is not more idiotic than the other—they are exactly equally stupid. One statement is not more insane than the other, they are exactly equally crazy. For a third statement, for purposes of illustration, that is EXACTLY as stupid and EXACTLY as crazy as the first two, consider this: (3) Not only is Elvis alive and well, he was the secret love child of the god Apollo and a female T-rex!
This is why I refuse to let the government tell me that I need to stop at stop signs. What makes them think they can substitute their judgement for mine? I’ve done all the research on how to drive and I can make up my own mind if I need to look before pulling out into a cross street. Having the government infringe on my ability to drive the way I want to is unconstitutional! Don’t let your fear of getting in an auto accident get in the way of my driving the way I want to drive – drunk or sober! (And don’t even get me started on seat belts!)
I’m surprised the talking Covid virus is wearing gloves. Wouldn’t he want to increase his potential contagion by opening the door with his bare hand (presuming for cartoon purposes that viruses have hands)?
Since my husband is a medical doctor, he got his 1st Covid-19 shot yesterday. He’s feeling fine. He has a little arm soreness as often happens with vaccinations. Things are still bad out there, it will take time to get through this.
Now be fair! It depends on what part of Washington State you are in. The western side of the Cascades follow the CDC guidelines for all the altruistic reasons. The eastern side believe in their individual rights, screw the other guy. My son is a fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife on the Columbia River System in the Cascade Mountains, so he sees both types of thinkers. As a biologist, he follows the science and altruistic use of masks.
OBTW: may you all have a much better 2021 than 2020… Merry Christmas, belated Happy Chanukah, Blessed Solstice, and may you have a clear view of the Jupiter-Saturn alignment!
As the number of deaths increases, logic would dictate that a disproportionate number of Trump supporters are contracting COVID, since they’re the ones who are refusing to wear masks and thus becoming a danger to themselves and others.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t that be considered “proof” that “we” are correct and “they” are wrong?
Because, if, in direct contrast, there was a disproportionate number of, let’s say, “Trump detractors” being infected — thus “proving” (by Trump standards, anyway) that wearing masks doesn’t accomplish anything - there is no way in HELL that Trump supporters wouldn’t be crowing to the rooftops about that. :|
So what does it mean that neither “we” nor “they” are dying in disproportionate numbers? What does that NOT mean?
(BTW, shouldn’t gocomics or whoever sets the standards for these posts have recognized “COVID”/“covid”/“Covid” as a correctly spelled word by now? Oh well.)
Fortunately, our neighborhood grocery store has the opposite attitude. There’s a big sandwich-board sign in front that says “Mask required, no exceptions!”
BLM protests are almost all outside and the majority of protesters did wear masks. There were even many at the protests who gave out hand sanitizer and masks. It could be said that there should not have been large gatherings of people as one would see in protests, however, other than that, BLM protesters did tend to follow the guidelines. Therefore, it wouldn’t make much sense for GT to criticize BLM protests for not following Covid-19 guidelines, since there was an obvious attempt made to follow them as much as possible.
I live and shop in a Red part of Cali [70%] We all wear masks when going out and have for months now. Rebel that I think I am I take it off in the Truck. I plan on spending Christmas with my 84 year old Dad and none of the 4 of Us will be wearing one.
I don’t like it but I wear a mask in public when required to do so. I’ve NEVER experienced any verbal abuse or disrespect from other people whether I was indoors, outdoors, large groups, small groups, rural or urban.
i hope all in the store are infected with the virus and then are denied medical care because they chose not to take precautions to protect themselves and those around them. you infect me then you get to die too.
me, with so many acting like the people in the comic strip above, my main goal is to do my best to survive them, (even tho, sad to say, many of them will be like the drunk driver going thru the crowd in the mall and killing dozens), and if i do survive them, i figure i can buy a new house they let empty, for pennies on the dollar current prices are. will be nice to get some of the stupid out of he gene pool, tho that won’t last long cuz the stupid breed faster than rabbits
So, in effect, Mike just “turned over” a storeful of people to the Coronavirus, in effect sentencing a noticeable percentage of total strangers to CERTAIN DEATH? But it’s just a comic strip, I should really just relax. ;-)
At least Mike didn’t hold the door open for him. Unlike certain other people who could be named…
The more of those right-wing idiots that get taken out permanently by covid the better. I’m so pissed off that tRump and rudy survived it, while John Prine died.
I suppose that at some point in distant history, stores and restaurants didn’t have
NO SHIRT
NO SHOES
NO SERVICE
signs. I wonder how long it took that to become such an accepted part of reality that almost no one gives it a thought any more. Maybe we just need signs that say
NO SHIRT
NO SHOES
NO MASK
NO SERVICE
so that it’s all just one “decree” instead two old familiar decrees and one new one.
Eighty years or so ago, in the golden age of something or another, men wore hats without anyone telling them to do so or indeed caring if they did so or not. Which has nothing to do with anything, I suppose.
“We were just wondering why you weren’t wearing a hat.” — from MST3K’s riffing of “The Brute Man” (1946)
This strip offers another advantage of remaining isolated: To avoid contact with people like that unless absolutely necessary. Because social interaction was highly overrated to begin with. IMHO. ;-)
BE THIS GUY over 3 years ago
Hey, my freedom is more important than your life.
mwksix over 3 years ago
It’s the novel Coronavirus, but in paperback…
DD Wiz Premium Member over 3 years ago
The whiny snowflake crybabies refusing to adhere to simple public safety standards are the ones causing the need for them to continue.
Wearing a simple mask is no more a loss of “personal freedom” that wearing clothes in public, wearing a seat belt or complying with laws that “infringe” your “freedom” to drive drunk.
If you want to put your own sorry rear end at risk, have at it. But “freedom” does not include the “right” to endanger others.
In any case, as Mike notes at the end, the virus will have the last word, and then the whiny crybabies will whine that it is a “liberal conspiracy” because somehow the prominent PROgressives who they ridicule for wearing masks somehow stay alive, while the virus somehow seems to strike disproportionately at those who flaunt the rules meant to protect them (and others).
The ones I feel most sorry for are the ones who want to be safe, but are forced by economic necessity and corporate cruelty to choose between safety and economic survival.
Those who refuse to adhere to simple public safety standards should be the one sent to the end of the treatment line when it comes time to triage health care shortages that they caused to occur.
Concretionist over 3 years ago
Horrifyingly realistic.
Kurtass Premium Member over 3 years ago
He must be in Montana.
feverjr Premium Member over 3 years ago
Here in the Palmetto State, our governor refused to make masks mandatory. Last week he and his wife attended a celebration at the White House, no masks. She has tested positive…
https://wpde.com/news/local/first-lady-peggy-mcmaster-tests-positive-for-covid-19
ACTIVIST1234 over 3 years ago
And she’ll get far better health care than the dozens she’s since infected.
eolan59 over 3 years ago
US Covid Deaths is now the 63rd largest city in the USA by population.
DangerBunny over 3 years ago
Last time it came up, Mike lived in the greater Seattle area, and I’m happy to report that at most of where he shops he’s unlikely to experience this kind of crap. We’re just as tired of it as anyone, but- what DD Wiz said above. Most folks locally are masked in public.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 3 years ago
And make a good job with that bunch of idiots , ’Rona .
Alabama Al over 3 years ago
FREEDUMB!!!
79nysv over 3 years ago
I live in a Red State. No mask no entry. No excuse.
jmarkoff2 over 3 years ago
I always wear my maskie, in compliance with Gov Newsom’s rule.
Sisterdame over 3 years ago
Tragedy is, that mask is more effective preventing the USER from infecting other people. (That is why doctors and nurses wear surgical masks). It does work preventing the user form getting infected by other people, but that is not as effective. Thus, he protects other people, who doesn’t protect him. SAAAD!
mobeydick over 3 years ago
Does Mike have a folding nose?
californiamonty over 3 years ago
Fascinating, isn’t it, that the very same people excusing Trump’s attempt to ban Muslims said “The constitution is not a suicide pact” because they’re firmly convinced all Muslims are out to kill all non-Muslims, yet they shout “The constitution does not permit this tyranny”, referring to the public health measures now? Nah, none of their stupidity is political; nope; none of it at all. Idiots and bigots.
admiree2 over 3 years ago
If only we could direct C19 toward the easy pickings…if only.
Of course, even if there was a magical way, the catch-22 is that there is always collateral damage among the innocent, and as is now happening in parts of the country with a few more months remaining the health system is on the verge of collapse.
The reports of the virus mutating now, which presents the possibility of an ineffective vaccine, raises our anxiety and fear levels. It’s as if Mother Nature is saying “OK ‘freedom fighters’, see if you can get this message”.
Stop screwing with the environment and the balance of life!
dadoctah over 3 years ago
“Sic ’em, Virus!”
Susan00100 over 3 years ago
I’ve started ordering my groceries online. Saves time and tsuris. AND saves me from contracting this horrible disease.
c.davies over 3 years ago
Here’s a happy thought. The virus may kill all those who don’t take any precautions, leaving the rest of us in the majority. Probably shouldn’t have said that!
Say What Now‽ Premium Member over 3 years ago
https://edmonton.citynews.ca/2020/12/11/creepy-uncle-covid-alberta-covid-19-ad-warns-against-holiday-gatherings/
superposition over 3 years ago
Giving the Novel Coronavirus the freedom to spread shows how dedicated to liberty and freedom they are?
Ontman over 3 years ago
There are anti masking Covidiots in Canada too. Not as many but just as selfishly stupid.
cabalonrye over 3 years ago
Here the fine is 135 Euros for not wearing a mask. Each time. It helps the idiots to make the right choice.
cabalonrye over 3 years ago
Their new motto: Give me liberty and give me death!
scote1379 Premium Member over 3 years ago
To @be this guy, you know you are quite free to die a horrible death !
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 3 years ago
The latest is that the Cyber attacks are fake news too. Trump says everyone is wrong about his buddy Putin. I guess his followers will all be in line with him about this too.
ERBEN2 over 3 years ago
It looks like some form of justice is coming in .
Super Fly over 3 years ago
What shite-hole country do you live in, Mike?
kaylowe over 3 years ago
I knew Trudeau was a leftist wacko, but this is ridiculous. I really seriously doubt that people cause a scene for someone wearing a mask. I certainly have not seen it. Most public places require it. Obviously they are not doing that much to help, bc most stores, public places have required them now for months and what is happening? They say rates are going up!Go figure. But I wish GBT would leave his politics out of his comic and focus on real comedy.
Nyckname over 3 years ago
Li’l Donny gave us vaccines that he had nothing to do with for a fake virus.
MarkMiller2 over 3 years ago
Man, I have been a hardcore GBT fan since the 70s, and he’s completely lost his touch. Trump beat him…
Totalloser Premium Member over 3 years ago
No Mask! No Admittance to the Hospital
Jaymi Cee Premium Member over 3 years ago
Ah! If only.
Ignatz Premium Member over 3 years ago
These people need to get a REAL principle. Because refusing to wear medical protection during a pandemic isn’t one.
Alverant over 3 years ago
How did we go from “Your right to swing your arms ends at the tip of my nose!” to “My right to swing my arms is absolute and if you get hit not only is it your own fault for not getting out of my way, your very existence oppresses me!”
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Letting freedom ring means you hear a ding dong every once in a while. Just do you and let them do them. Whichever, side you land on.
beindevine over 3 years ago
That’s pretty much the way it seems in Boulder, CO – except that store employees must wear masks, too. People are supposed to wear masks to shop, but after so many assault and battery cases, most large stores just ignore people who don’t comply. – It’s very disheartening, especially receiving abuse for wearing a mask when you’re rated as “susceptible.” The country is going down the tubes….
mourdac Premium Member over 3 years ago
Medical care will not be denied the “freedumb” fighters. This nation is compassionate.
KennethPrice2 over 3 years ago
Exercising their Constitutional Right to win a Darwin Award.
Monchoxyz over 3 years ago
Too many comments to read. Just gave it a like.
awcoffman over 3 years ago
Given enough time, natural selection should eliminate these people from the gene pool. One has to wonder why it hasn’t over the last million years or so. I guess there will always be mutations.
guy42 over 3 years ago
Why are there golf tees in that poor ol volley ball?
MichaelHelwig over 3 years ago
I’ll bet every one of the maskless idiots was wearing clothes.
mistercatworks over 3 years ago
The ambulances will be there soon but won’t have anywhere to take them.
gkepchar over 3 years ago
Doesn’t Mike live in Washington state? There may be rural pockets of mask resistance, but the whole state, even the conservative eastern part, is observant of mask wearing.
The Lone Panda Kemo Sabe over 3 years ago
Nothing will knock some sense into a guy, like a visit from the Grim Reaper. (Throw in some blubbering and pleading.)
Whatever happened to common sense? over 3 years ago
Please retire the term “snowflake.” It grew old years ago.
notmoving Premium Member over 3 years ago
This is not even close to being true. Panic about the panicers. So now Trudeau is trading in irony.
Glibster Premium Member over 3 years ago
As an exercise of my personal freedom guaranteed to me by the constitution, I freely choose to wear a mask.
Cincoflex over 3 years ago
Good on Mike for staying strong.
Packratjohn Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’ve used the red light analogy many times. Who tells you that you have to stop for a red light? The “gubmint”. What happens if you don’t? Maybe nothing, maybe a citation, maybe injury, maybe death, including yours and others. So go ahead, show us your contempt of common sense.
marshalldoc over 3 years ago
So, as of this AM the CDC quotes the risk of death from C-19 as 0.8/100K… they’ll probably be okay.
ncorgbl over 3 years ago
Do you wear clothes?
Wizard of Ahz-no relation over 3 years ago
with a month + since the elction I’m surprised we havn’t had a sunday with the orange one in denial
Agapostemon over 3 years ago
Two points of advice for Mike:A) Don’t put your hands all over the front of your mask like that.B) If the store is full of unmasked people, get out. Don’t give them any business.
Seed_drill over 3 years ago
Our small town grocery store requires masks. But the MAGA convenience store the next county up doesn’t like people wearing them. And, yes, they display rebel flags, MAGA flags and Gadsen flags on the wall and the owner wears camo T-shirts.
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Anti maskers may be suicidal but I’m not. They have no right to infect others.
Whoever made wearing masks political should go to prison for killing tens of thousands of Americans.
There is nothing as uncommon as common sense.
NatureBatsLast over 3 years ago
Bahh Zing!
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member over 3 years ago
In my 68 years, I’ve had many reasons and occasions to be cynical and flabbergasted at the depth of stupidity people (including myself) are capable of, but the anti-masking phenomenon truly beats them all.
swanridge over 3 years ago
What’s Mike doing in North Dakota?
swanridge over 3 years ago
Better to be six feet apart than six feet under.
dwagner200 over 3 years ago
It’s an embarrassing year to be a Republican. Our psychos now match your psychos. I’m waiting for a new centrist party that will leave both groups on the lunatic fringe where they belong.
admiree2 over 3 years ago
Obviously this happens in our world, and GBT used creative license to compile in one setting the different remarks made by the ignorant who believe that their constitutional freedom gives them the right to verbally assault others.
Of all places for it to occur mine was at a municipal compost landfill. I could not risk any chance of infection because I did not want to bring anything back home. My wife was in radiation treatment for cancer.
So, I asked the guy I hired to assist to wear a mask while we were in the truck. The genius self-appointed medical expert sees us as he was about to leave and has to stop to question me. I have too much going on to be confrontational so I give the short curt answer. Here’s the clincher now.
He ends it by telling me that wearing a mask too much will compromise my immune system because I am not allowing it to strengthen. Complete disconnect with what is ongoing in the country.
Most I can say to disengage is “I have never heard about that before now.” Better than saying that I hope you get infected instead of me and you have long close conversations with all those who believe as you do.
fbkarl over 3 years ago
Trudeau’s still a major asshole.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 3 years ago
I’ve been trying to promote the idea of “net freedom”, defined as ability minus restrictions. I illustrate it with the idea of Daniel Boone trekking thru the Cumberland Gap on his way to Kentucky. Ol’ Dan’l didn’t have to worry about no dam gubmint-imposed 70 MPH speed limit like modern travelers on the interstate highway do. But our modern motorists have way more net liberty than Daniel did, because their ability to do things is so much greater.
dlaemmerhirt999 over 3 years ago
One word for the f_ing morons that STILL support future prisoner 13000000 and hate science: sad.
Mark Hanson over 3 years ago
And good riddance.
SemperFiMac over 3 years ago
@BE THIS GUY — Bet me. Then bite me.
Godfreydaniel over 3 years ago
Obviously, only imbeciles and lunatics believe these two statements: (1) COVID is a hoax. (2) The election was rigged and Trump actually won. One statement is not more idiotic than the other—they are exactly equally stupid. One statement is not more insane than the other, they are exactly equally crazy. For a third statement, for purposes of illustration, that is EXACTLY as stupid and EXACTLY as crazy as the first two, consider this: (3) Not only is Elvis alive and well, he was the secret love child of the god Apollo and a female T-rex!
briangj2 over 3 years ago
Trudeau missed one comment: “The president doesn’t wear a mask, so why should I?”And yes, I’ve heard this one at work (at a medical facility).
Also, I wonder how much worse the responses would have been if Mike had worn a face shield instead of/in addition to the mask (I wear both at work).
Remember the 3W’s: (1) Wear a Mask, (2) Wash your hands, (3) Watch your distance.
Solaricious Premium Member over 3 years ago
This is why I refuse to let the government tell me that I need to stop at stop signs. What makes them think they can substitute their judgement for mine? I’ve done all the research on how to drive and I can make up my own mind if I need to look before pulling out into a cross street. Having the government infringe on my ability to drive the way I want to is unconstitutional! Don’t let your fear of getting in an auto accident get in the way of my driving the way I want to drive – drunk or sober! (And don’t even get me started on seat belts!)
kauri44 over 3 years ago
I’m surprised the talking Covid virus is wearing gloves. Wouldn’t he want to increase his potential contagion by opening the door with his bare hand (presuming for cartoon purposes that viruses have hands)?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 3 years ago
Most satisfying comic strip I’ve read in ages.
montessoriteacher over 3 years ago
Since my husband is a medical doctor, he got his 1st Covid-19 shot yesterday. He’s feeling fine. He has a little arm soreness as often happens with vaccinations. Things are still bad out there, it will take time to get through this.
JenSolo02 over 3 years ago
Now be fair! It depends on what part of Washington State you are in. The western side of the Cascades follow the CDC guidelines for all the altruistic reasons. The eastern side believe in their individual rights, screw the other guy. My son is a fish biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife on the Columbia River System in the Cascade Mountains, so he sees both types of thinkers. As a biologist, he follows the science and altruistic use of masks.
JenSolo02 over 3 years ago
OBTW: may you all have a much better 2021 than 2020… Merry Christmas, belated Happy Chanukah, Blessed Solstice, and may you have a clear view of the Jupiter-Saturn alignment!
RonaldByrd over 3 years ago
In all (well, quite a bit of) seriousness:
As the number of deaths increases, logic would dictate that a disproportionate number of Trump supporters are contracting COVID, since they’re the ones who are refusing to wear masks and thus becoming a danger to themselves and others.
If that’s the case, wouldn’t that be considered “proof” that “we” are correct and “they” are wrong?
Because, if, in direct contrast, there was a disproportionate number of, let’s say, “Trump detractors” being infected — thus “proving” (by Trump standards, anyway) that wearing masks doesn’t accomplish anything - there is no way in HELL that Trump supporters wouldn’t be crowing to the rooftops about that. :|
So what does it mean that neither “we” nor “they” are dying in disproportionate numbers? What does that NOT mean?
(BTW, shouldn’t gocomics or whoever sets the standards for these posts have recognized “COVID”/“covid”/“Covid” as a correctly spelled word by now? Oh well.)
willie_mctell over 3 years ago
The Second Amendment explicitly states that the right to infect others is an essential part of maintaining a well regulated militia.
thedogesl Premium Member over 3 years ago
Fortunately, our neighborhood grocery store has the opposite attitude. There’s a big sandwich-board sign in front that says “Mask required, no exceptions!”
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 3 years ago
What? Did he drive all the way to Republitown?
carlzr over 3 years ago
Okay Gary. Now show your little virus friend at a Black Lives Matter rally.
montessoriteacher over 3 years ago
BLM protests are almost all outside and the majority of protesters did wear masks. There were even many at the protests who gave out hand sanitizer and masks. It could be said that there should not have been large gatherings of people as one would see in protests, however, other than that, BLM protesters did tend to follow the guidelines. Therefore, it wouldn’t make much sense for GT to criticize BLM protests for not following Covid-19 guidelines, since there was an obvious attempt made to follow them as much as possible.
Ammo is busy training in the hills Premium Member over 3 years ago
I live and shop in a Red part of Cali [70%] We all wear masks when going out and have for months now. Rebel that I think I am I take it off in the Truck. I plan on spending Christmas with my 84 year old Dad and none of the 4 of Us will be wearing one.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Seriously U.S.A?
dimndno over 3 years ago
I don’t like it but I wear a mask in public when required to do so. I’ve NEVER experienced any verbal abuse or disrespect from other people whether I was indoors, outdoors, large groups, small groups, rural or urban.
John Daddy Reynolds over 3 years ago
Oh my god I love how brilliant Trudeau continues to be after all these years!
j.l.farmer over 3 years ago
i hope all in the store are infected with the virus and then are denied medical care because they chose not to take precautions to protect themselves and those around them. you infect me then you get to die too.
bakana over 3 years ago
I wear a mask to protect Myself from the MAGAts without masks.
I could care Less if they all come down with it in a Mass Worship service for Darwin.
bunrabbit99 over 3 years ago
he forgot to have someone asking for his “guvmint check! where’s ma benifits?”
STACEY MARSHALL Premium Member over 3 years ago
We don’t need no stinking masks cause we don’t fear what we can’t see (DUH!)
bike2sac over 3 years ago
Is that the place where the waitresses wear guns. Somewhere near Grand Junction?
Andylit Premium Member over 3 years ago
A country grocery store? In Seattle?
I guess Gary hasn’t been following the reports out of Washington State.
https://www.q13fox.com/news/inslee-extends-latest-covid-19-restrictions-in-washington-state-through-jan-4
“In-store retail, including grocery stores, must be limited to 25% indoor capacity and must close common areas. Food court dining must close.”
Oops.
maxcat631 over 3 years ago
This strip has been a fave of mine since the 70s, glad to see Trudeau still tells it like it is.
tarnrider over 3 years ago
me, with so many acting like the people in the comic strip above, my main goal is to do my best to survive them, (even tho, sad to say, many of them will be like the drunk driver going thru the crowd in the mall and killing dozens), and if i do survive them, i figure i can buy a new house they let empty, for pennies on the dollar current prices are. will be nice to get some of the stupid out of he gene pool, tho that won’t last long cuz the stupid breed faster than rabbits
RonaldByrd over 3 years ago
“They’re all yours.”
So, in effect, Mike just “turned over” a storeful of people to the Coronavirus, in effect sentencing a noticeable percentage of total strangers to CERTAIN DEATH? But it’s just a comic strip, I should really just relax. ;-)
At least Mike didn’t hold the door open for him. Unlike certain other people who could be named…
buzzkillington over 3 years ago
The more of those right-wing idiots that get taken out permanently by covid the better. I’m so pissed off that tRump and rudy survived it, while John Prine died.
RonaldByrd over 3 years ago
I suppose that at some point in distant history, stores and restaurants didn’t have
NO SHIRT
NO SHOES
NO SERVICE
signs. I wonder how long it took that to become such an accepted part of reality that almost no one gives it a thought any more. Maybe we just need signs that say
NO SHIRT
NO SHOES
NO MASK
NO SERVICE
so that it’s all just one “decree” instead two old familiar decrees and one new one.
Eighty years or so ago, in the golden age of something or another, men wore hats without anyone telling them to do so or indeed caring if they did so or not. Which has nothing to do with anything, I suppose.
“We were just wondering why you weren’t wearing a hat.” — from MST3K’s riffing of “The Brute Man” (1946)
RonaldByrd over 3 years ago
This strip offers another advantage of remaining isolated: To avoid contact with people like that unless absolutely necessary. Because social interaction was highly overrated to begin with. IMHO. ;-)
MaggiePhillips over 3 years ago
But FOR MEEEE, see George Hahn on TikTok. ;-)