Meme-ing our way through

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https://slate.com/technology/2020/07/pandemic-humor-1918-flu.html

When you have appendicitis, parenchymatous nephritis, laryngitis or gastritis, It’s the Flu

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Omg :joy: These are hilarious

The Ina Garten one is killing me. :rofl:

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So true it hurts

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OMG.

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This is…too close to home :sob: :rofl:

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Yeah I’m all raged out, but I feel like I aged a year or two in reading that. This too accurately describes some people I know. People that want to visit my child. F that.

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Unfortunately this is my family…

We saw my parents twice in April-June (but you know…actually outside the whole time, four people total in attendance, peeing in the bushes so I didn’t enter the house, brought our own water/chairs/toilet paper, 10+ ft away, etc.) but had to put a stop to even that when we started hearing things about the places they popped into, or seeing pictures posted of being indoors with people who weren’t wearing masks. Of course, they think they’re being ridiculously careful.

It’s really tough. I miss them a lot. But I’m pregnant and no way am I adding extra risk to my life right now. I go to the Dr.'s office ~1x/month and freak out for 10-14 days after that I may have caught something there and that’s it.

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I suspect it’s very normal that people are fatigued by all the precautions. I see it around me, too, with people who should really know better. Unfortunately, some of them are going to pay for the carelessness with their health or lives. :frowning::-1:

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Some of my family members have said “it’s just the flu” and have their teenage daughter as a camp counselor this summer. That’s the same branch of the family that, when asked about masking to go to the grocery stores way back when, gave a resounding “Uuuuhh…”

Not that I’m bitter or anything. [insert Kermit sipping tea meme]

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I seriously thought that was satire until I got to the very end and there was no punchline.

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We (collectively) ARE the punchline.

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It’s using the Jonathan Swift “A Modest Proposal” satire form. No punchline necessary.

And even though I knew it was satire, I still got stressed reading it from funny because it’s true syndrome.

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McSweeny’s tagline is “Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998” and their other articles include stuff like this

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