• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    1871·
    4 months ago

    I had a mask on in the grocery store yesterday and got some weird looks. Like people I’m not afraid of getting sick…

    I AM sick

    This is for you, you morons

  • niktemadur@lemmy.world
    801·
    4 months ago

    A full century after the Spanish Influenza and we still got to witness how so many imbeciles remain untouched by education and empathy.
    What a dismayingly timeless old comic.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        17·
        4 months ago

        i hate this quote. it just doesn’t change anything. “history repeats itself” means the exact same thing. it’s not like people mean that the exact same people do the exact same things in the exact same circumstances… it’s just meaningless distinction without difference.

        • Klear@lemmy.world
          4·
          4 months ago

          If the quote at least itself rhymed, then you could call it an improvement, but no…

          • pyre@lemmy.world
            3·
            4 months ago

            it’s a much older quote, often misattributed to Mark Twain, possibly because he has another quote about history not repeating. but it isn’t this. this is possibly a humorous remark of some sort, but it’s not that funny or clever imo. the main problem is that for it to work you need to completely misunderstand the saying “history repeats itself” to mean some sort of Battlestar Galactica’s “all of this has happened before…” type mystical statement, which it isn’t.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
    15·
    4 months ago

    I’ve only got a single comment about wearing a mask in public. Somebody cattily asking “why are you wearing a mask?” to which I replied “How about you mind your own business?” Did not go any further than that.

    Because I have stupid little bitch-ass immune system, I’m ridiculously susceptible to being sick, which I don’t enjoy. So I’m either 1 germ away from being sick, or I’m already sick.

    • qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website
      15·
      4 months ago

      One of the nice things about post-pandemic life where I am is the normalization of wearing masks if you’re sick, vulnerable, or just feel like it. Someone shows up at work — or on public transportation — with a mask and no one bats an eye.

      (I’m in the USA in a very blue, VHCOL area, YMMV…)

      • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
        101·
        4 months ago

        It’s nice! I don’t like my health situation being outed, so I’m glad that it’s now less acceptable to ask.

        Unfortunately, I’m in a very red area. My last boss kept exasperatedly telling me that I “don’t have to wear a mask while I’m at work”— which gave me more of a reason to wear a mask at work. Turns out, I was right. None of them were vaccinated, and my boss ended up having a heart attack which forced him to permanently close down the shop. Oh well.

    • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 months ago

      I got that a few times, and I ignored them, and then they all continued to make loud insults to themselves.

  • ripcord@lemmy.world
    14·
    4 months ago

    Hey, you’re taking over Picard’s job :)

    One thing I’ve been surprised about with Everett’s comics after buying a collection is how many I have sympathy for, or connect with - considering it’s over 100 years old (and I’m not particularly a fan of violence as a response to anything).

  • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    I missed a family member’s wedding because of covid. A few days later I saw a guy at the store not wearing a mask and I kind of went ballistic on him. I’m not proud to admit that I vented a lot of my frustration over the whole management of the pandemic on that guy. I was fully ready to fist fight over it. In the end, he decided he did not want to fight me, despite being twice my size and half my age. I made him go stand in the corner of the store until I finished my transaction and left the store.