The lost year -by Tom Tomorrow

[kpete]

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[Hugin]

1. I'm coming up on my official quarantinneversary sometime in the next two weeks...

My unofficial date was in early February when the first reports of community spread were beginning to hit the news.

I still remember my saying goodbyes to some of the people I'd interacted with on a daily basis for years with assurances that I'd see them again in a few weeks or by June at the latest.

I miss them every day. Some of them I will never see again.

Does anyone have the video of "We'll Meet Again" by Vera Lynn on queue? I need to hear that song right now.

[Bongo Prophet]

10. We live to serve.

There are several versions on youtube, of which this is one.

[Hugin]

13. Thank you, kindly.

:sigh:

[5X]

2. I am the penquin.

[underpants]

5. Coo coo ca choo

[mnhtnbb]

3. One year ago tomorrow--March 2nd-- I flew to Bonaire

for a two week vacation to celebrate my birthday. My son and his partner were booked to fly down on March 7th to join me for a week.

As the news about the novel coronavirus began to get more alarming during my first few days on Bonaire, I began to wonder if they'd come. Or if the airport would suddenly be closed to flights. At 4 am on March 7th, an incoming text message from my son said they were at the airport and not coming. His partner--who already had a fear of flying--just couldn't bring himself to check his luggage and make the trip with the extra anxiety about the coronavirus.

So, I decided to come home a week early and flew back on March 9th. The flight I was originally scheduled to come home on--March 16th--turned out to be the last American Airlines flight out of Bonaire before they closed the airport to traffic from the US.

This year I had intended to really splurge--as it will be my 70th birthday--and spend three weeks at my favorite island resort. Huh. Not happening. There are still no direct flights from the US to Bonaire and none expected to begin again until at least June. Sigh.

Maybe next year?

[oasis]

4. 70 million MAGA zombies walk among us.

[Jakes Progress]

7. You can cure ignorance. Stupid is a death sentence.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. A year ago today my cruise to Hawaii started.

18 days, from San Diego and return there. It was wonderful! I so much want to do more cruises.

I was on Holland America, on a ship that held at most 2,000 passengers, and it was not full. As the cruise progressed, they stepped up cleaning and sanitizing noticeably, and this on an already fastidiously clean ship. We felt totally safe on board. Our very last port of call was Ensenada, Mexico, and we were not allowed off, which was sensible. The return and disembarkation in San Diego went smoothly, I caught my flight back home, and returned to a Santa Fe that was mostly shut down. It was quite weird.

Some day things like cruising will return, although they may be permanently altered. The Hawaii cruise was a delayed 70th birthday present to myself, and I'm figuring my next one will be a 75th birthday present to myself. If not a cruise, I will treat myself to some special trip, or stay in a resort.

[Neema]

8. I got back from a business trip on February 29.

I went out for a family birthday dinner on March 1 and we were already sanitizing and not hugging. In July, 2020, I had to go for one more business trip (couldn't say no to any income at that point), and I just about wore a hazmat suit on the plane, had a near-Silkwood protocol for when I entered my hotel room, and slept inside a sleep sack.

Aside from that, I have been inside a tiny radius in my neighborhood for a year now. I've worn a mask religiously when out and done everything else to stay safe and keep others safe.

I'm tired, I'm so very tired of this. Yet I do it because it's like the barest minimum one should do to be a decent human being living on this planet with other humans.

And for the life of me I can't figure out why people expend so much time, energy and vitriol into refusing to wear masks, having temper tantrums, staging ridiculous protests, printing fake medical cards off the internet just to avoid being decent human beings. It would be vastly easier to just wear a goddamn mask.

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

[Towlie]

11. I'd never get that close to someone wearing a MAGA hat, mask or no mask, virus or no virus.

 
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[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Great cartoon

[colsohlibgal]

14. Funny And Sad

Tom Tomorrow is as good as anyone in highlighting the stunning obstinance and blatant stupidity of Trumpsters.