Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 24, 2021

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    BE THIS GUY  over 2 years ago

    According to a report by Trump’s own Council of Economic Advisers from September 2019, an influenza like pandemic should last about 2 years.

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    Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Leave your mask on and you will ready for Rio or Venice carnival.

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    B UTTONS  over 2 years ago

    Pig has been visiting California again.

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    marilynnbyerly  over 2 years ago

    That’s what’s happening right now witih the local school boards. The masks are now on, and some idiot parents are screaming about it. Meanwhile, a bunch of kids and teachers have been put into quarantine because they have or were around Covid. Sigh.

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    sirbadger  over 2 years ago

    Halloween is coming up which should allow us to get more creative with our masks.

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    BasilBruce  over 2 years ago

    Today’s background music: “Stuck in a Loop” by Devo.

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    LastRoseOfSummer 1 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Today in line at Walgreens some Karen said " I’m fully vaccinated, can I take off this mask, this is stupid" She got 5 death stares.

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    Concretionist  over 2 years ago

    Why did the nonsense phrase “mask incarceration” just pop into my head?

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    Cornelius Noodleman  over 2 years ago

    Some kid at school stole my mask.

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    Baarorso  over 2 years ago

    Why does this sequence sound like it could be in a modern remake of “Groundhog Day”? ;D

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    Caldonia  over 2 years ago

    That’s an unfortunate choice of words, Pig.

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    _lounger_  over 2 years ago

    that’s another totally new experience…

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    cdward  over 2 years ago

    The message has NEVER been that the pandemic is over. Only certain politicians ever said that. CDC guidance has changed as information on this novel virus has become clearer, but the CDC never once said it was over. It’s the idiots who refused to believe this thing was serious who have caused the magnified death count and the dragged-out time frame.

    Pandemics can go on for years in wave after wave. And the longer it takes to get everyone vaccinated, the longer this will drag out.

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    socalvillaguy Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Rather wear a mask than a ventilator, so I never complain about having to wear the former. However, I do blame the anti-vaxxers for the state we’re in (in large part).

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    lavender headgear  over 2 years ago

    I’m brainwashed! On with the mask! I’m red-pilled! Off with the mask!

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    MayCauseBurns  over 2 years ago

    Endemic now, not pandemic.

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    AndreasMartin  over 2 years ago

    The pandemic is here to stay, so hopefully evolution will soon give us virus-filtering nosehair.

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    juicebruce  over 2 years ago

    “No One Here Gets Out Alive” ….. The Doors

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    Darryl Heine  over 2 years ago

    DELTA COVID?

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    tripwire45  over 2 years ago

    I wonder how long the government will…uh, how long the virus will continue to “loop?”

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    wrd2255  over 2 years ago

    Karate Kid 2021: “Mask on. Mask Off. Mask on. Mask off”

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    Chris  over 2 years ago

    too bad there’s no way out, we’re doomed! :O

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    Major Matt Mason Premium Member over 2 years ago

    “Stop the comic! I want to get off!”

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 2 years ago

    It’s just for two weeks, to slow the spread and flatten the curve. We aren’t trying to assert any weird sort of authoritarian dystopian agenda where we control you.

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    Jeffin Premium Member over 2 years ago

    It’s groundhog day again; all over the world tonight. Sorry, Pig. Not that kind of ground hog.

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    Ellis97  over 2 years ago

    This stupid pandemic will never go away. I’ve had it! Why are the medics and scientists so slow with the cures?

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    grocks  over 2 years ago

    Ha! The same day this headline appears ‘Groundhog day has to end’: Australia plots path beyond covid zero and lockdowns

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/australia-delta-covid-lockdown/2021/08/24/6bb6131c-03b8-11ec-b3c4-c462b1edcfc8_story.html

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    The Waffles are my friends  over 2 years ago

    Notice how Rat is not wearing a mask himself.

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    rugeirn  over 2 years ago

    Yes, we really have been that stupid.

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    GreenIrishEyes  over 2 years ago

    Wasn’t this the storyline on a TNG episode back in the 90’s?

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    redback  over 2 years ago

    doesn’t it go up when people remove their masks? and why do people believe the virus follows a signature in a paper. If somebody signs a paper the virus magically disappears, and obviously is subject to laws that people make up

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    SheMc  over 2 years ago

    I doubt it will ever be really over!

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    gigagrouch  over 2 years ago

    Then GET VACCINATED!

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    pontiac59  over 2 years ago

    The best part is a study was just published that shows those stupid paper masks have an effectiveness rate of about 10%.

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    Snolep  over 2 years ago

    It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

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    LaughterIsJoyMuliplied  over 2 years ago

    Sign me up Pig.

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    RonaldDad Premium Member over 2 years ago

    You’ve got to stop listening to the government, Pastis.

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    khcm1157  over 2 years ago

    ’Let’s do the Time Warp again!’

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    Holden Awn  over 2 years ago

    The virus is here to stay. Part of the myriad of things waiting in the wings to cull our herd. So, do everything you can to protect yourself and others, and then resolve to step off the Covid carousel.

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    raybarb44  over 2 years ago

    They will do it as long and as often as they can…….

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    Wizard4168  over 2 years ago

    We all do, Pig. We all do.

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    RACerri32  over 2 years ago

    The dog ate my mask !

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 2 years ago

    Republicans politicized the wearing of masks and covid shots and are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Stop voting for murderously stupid anti Public Health disease spreading Republicans.

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    WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Why can’t we be stuck in a time loop in Wallace the Brave today?

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    Goat from PBS  over 2 years ago

    We will get out… eventually. I’m positive.

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    mpolo11 Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Groundhog year.

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    timbob2313 Premium Member over 2 years ago
    Not a time loop. IMVPO the COVID pandemic is different and there will soon be still another variant in the US because the unvaxed are the perfect breeding ground for another, possibly more virulent variant.

    Just my opinion but I hope Health insurance companies refuse to pay for any unvaccinated person who winds up in the hospital with COVID. Because there is vaccine available, and its free

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    falcon_370f  over 2 years ago

    https://youtu.be/4xmckWVPRaI

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    alexius23  over 2 years ago

    Veritas

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    Another Take  over 2 years ago

    Stuck in a Time Loop thanks to the Fruit Loops (you can decide if they’re the unvaccinated or the CDC)

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    knight1192a  over 2 years ago

    We’re already looking at Delta and Lambda variants, who knows how many variants there will be next year.

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    Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Reality – we had to come to a comic strip to find it.

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    franki_g  over 2 years ago

    We’re stuck in 2 loops, Rat. One goes over each ear.

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    Daeder  over 2 years ago

    We’re not in a loop at all. The pandemic was never over. People just wished it was.

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  over 2 years ago

    Anyone got Bill Murray’s number?

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    Sisyphos  over 2 years ago

    Don’t we all, Pig, don’t we all?!

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 2 years ago

    Whiplash.

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    jannichols2000  over 2 years ago

    This may very well be my favorite daily strip of all the Pearls before Swine Posts.

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    Laurie Stoker Premium Member over 2 years ago

    We all want out, Pig. We all want out …

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