191 Quasi Random Thoughts During a Pandemic 1

I keep running across various “pandemic” related stuff in the papers and online which amuse me, so I thought I’d share some of them in this post.  A pandemic, of course, isn’t at all funny, but one has to find humor wherever one can these days, or it could drive you crazy.  So, here’s a bit of a lighter side to our current situation.
 
I suspect that this little picture may sum up a lot of people’s thinking about the current state of affairs:

Of course, there are SOME folks (high school upperclassmen, for example,) who figured out that, while COVID wasn’t pleasant, the general situation could be improved through engaging in some (frowned upon, but) traditional practices.

Some of these “students:” even managed to make the needs of “COVID care” work to their advantage in.  For example, while studying Hamlet in English class:

This, of course, never would have worked in a class of mine, but I suspect that some of my “students” might have been perfectly happy to try it.  Speaking of dramatic lit. class, did you ever stop to think how simply following safe practices might have changed history, even literature.  Take, for example Shakespeare’s Tragedies:

Not ALL references to Shakespeare, during these times are quite so pointed, however, as witness what I consider the greatest face mask ever designed:

This, of course, is the time of year which is usually FOOTBALL season.  Therefore, it’s the time when the state of Nebraska is determined to indulge in its usual cultish frenzy known as “Husker Mania” in spite of the fact that there is a pandemic raging, and the Nebraska football team has only won ONE of the five games it has actually played (the Big Ten season didn’t actually start until towards the end of October and Nebraska already has had one game cancelled due to COVID).  Still, in NEBRASKA, football is THE most important thing there is, of even greater importance than farm subsidies, selling soybeans to China, etc.  
 
Now, I’ve always enjoyed watching football, even served as manager and trainer for my high school’s state winning team.  I also have enjoyed watching the cheerleaders (who were friends of mine in high school).  On the other hand, I confess that my interest in sports has been reduced by the current pandemic.  See Zits below.

We probably should acknowledge that the COVID pandemic is also going to throw some awkwardnesses and difficulties into the holiday season.  Think of all those department store/mall Santa Clauses, for example.  Their lives are going to be a good deal more complicated during these times.

Also, as any regular reader of these postings would know, I collect various signs and stuff which strike me as amusing.  Here’s a pandemically-related one which I found a while back which I just can’t get out of my mind!

Now, YOU try to forget that!  It's been an "ear worm" in my head for a couple of weeks.
 
LLAP,
 
Dr. B
 
 
P.S. This is NOT “pandemically related,” but I found it the other day and was moved to use it.  The late Ming Cho Lee, the famous designer and educator, is quoted as having said, “Being polite is the death of theater.”  I couldn’t agree more, especially in relation to educational theatre.  My way of phrasing it, as some might remember, always was, “If you don’t offend at least some people at least some of the time, you’re just not doing your job.”