Covid jokes

[San Bernardhinault]

Also:

What zombie movies got wrong about the actual apocalypse, part 1,487: they omitted scenes of people on the street demanding the right to be eaten by zombies.

[San Bernardhinault]

It's not really a joke, but I found this funny. Someone went out and did a socially distanced marathon on Marathon Monday in Boston, and did it in such a way as to write "Boston Strong" with her Strava. Except that when she got home she realised that she'd forgotten the last "n"...

[Patrick Thistle]

[Nefertiti2]

hard to know the boundary between laughter and campaigning

this worked for me

https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1252794978037833729?s=20

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1253474772702429189?s=21

[Nefertiti2]

https://twitter.com/socialhotcake/status/1251536794505621505?s=21

[Furtho]

I'm not suggesting this is a *joke*, but it doesn't fit satisfactorily into the other COVID19 threads...

https://twitter.com/KrystalVittles/status/1253227314764283904

[Nefertiti2]

I've always had a soft spot for Pam Ayres

https://twitter.com/PamAyres/status/1253956899692851200?s=20

[sw2borshch]

It's from a recent Viz

[San Bernardhinault]

[Various Artist]

Is that the Pences? They appear to have got their his 'n' hers face masks the wrong way round, too. She's wearing the formal black business mask, while he's sporting the delicate pink lace-edged version.

[ursus arctos]

No

Those are Dr Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Dr Deborah Birx (Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force)

[Paul S]

The boss of Timpsons says he will be re-opening some of his stores this week. I thought they were operating already, aren't they key workers?

[Various Artist]

No

Those are Dr Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Dr Deborah Birx (Coronavirus Response Coordinator for the Trump Administration's White House Coronavirus Task Force)

Ahh, thanks UA. I know their names (and Fauci's growing reputation in recent weeks), but hadn't put names to faces. And it's particularly hard to when you can't see much of the faces except their eyes.

(My point about their masks stands, nonetheless.)

Speaking of which, is the chap dressed like a tree a particularly significant military type? He has the eyes of Jean-Claude Van Damme. Though potentially also the mouth of Marilyn Monroe, as President Mitterand might have observed.

[ursus arctos]

Turns out that he is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but I wouldn't have recognised him even without the mask and I would posit that very few people outside the military or defence establishment would even know his name.

[Various Artist]

That's interesting, because my first assumption was that that was probably what he is, but I couldn't begin to put a name to who he is. Is that quite normal, for this role? Or is it a function of how the Trump regime has installed, fallen out with, then fired from, so many people in official/public/government/Cabinet/advisory type positions it's become harder than usual to keep track of who's actually functioning in any of these roles at the present time?

[ursus arctos]

Some of both.

"We" generally don't get much exposure to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs except during wartime, and not even then in this new era of constant war on someone.

Here's a list starting with Colin Powell, who had by far the highest profile of any of those enumerated

• Gen. Colin L. Powell, U.S. Army, 1989-1993
• Gen. John M. Shalikashvili, U.S. Army, 1993-1997
• Gen. Henry H. Shelton, U.S. Army, 1997-2001
• Gen. Richard B. Myers, U.S. Air Force, 2001-2005
• Gen. Peter Pace, U.S. Marine Corps, 2005-2007
• Adm. Michael Mullen, U.S. Navy, 2007-2011
• Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, U.S. Army, 2011-2015
• Gen. Joseph Dunford, U.S. Marine Corps, 2015-2019
• Gen. Mark A. Milley, U.S. Army, 2019-present

Shalikashvili is the only other member of that list that I could pick out of a lineup, and that has as much to do with his ethnic background as anything else.

[treibeis]

I think ursus arctos' punchlines need work.

[Sean of the Shed]

Well I got it, dummy, but I ain't about to explain it to you.

[San Bernardhinault]

[Nesta]

US COVID-19 deaths now exceed those servicemen and -women who died during the Vietnam War.

N-n-n-n-n-n-ninety

[fatbear]

I thought they died of Covid-nnnnnn19

[Satchmo Distel]

[Nesta]

May as well drop my usual Paul Hardcastle joke here as well: in Vietnam, they have their own version of the song, it's called 'Nine'.

[Patrick Thistle]