It's hard to believe it's been a year since the official start of the Covid-19 pandemic. I could never imagine our lives would change in such dramatic ways. Since the beginning of lockdown, I've been drawing Covid Life cartoons to blow off some stress, and thought I'd just make a few and would run out of ideas, but the new ideas kept on coming and coming.
Just because everything changed so much, everyday things became surreal. For instance, since all doctor visits became virtual, I was joking the other day that "going" to a doctor would require showing different body parts on a video call, so I turned this conversation into a drawing.
As Zoom fatigue has set in and summer plans have been canceled, it's hard not to feel tired at the end of each day. Drawing has helped lift my mood each evening, it's been a great way to laugh and share some joy with others.
Hope you enjoy this fresh new batch! Previous posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and Part 5.
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Things I Don't Miss
100% still grocery retail life. Nothing changed for us except seeing what it was like to work black Friday crowds for a year.
I definitely don't miss the colds... but dr office's are still a thing so I do not know how to get around that....
Colds were replaced with horrible headaches from masks tho
Co-Workers
me too! (even though I'm still in elementary school and not close to getting a job at all.)
Load More Replies...And they actually let you sleep instead of screeching all night
Load More Replies...Pandemic End
There are only two viruses we eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest. Today they only exists in highly specialized laboratories
Load More Replies...if anyone actually expected the vaccine would 100% end covid then they are an idiot. Of course it's going to mutate to survive. It's never going to fully go away. Same as Flu, it will weaken and be less dangerous to the majority of people, but the elderly and vulnerable could need booster shots yearly or so, as with flu. Each year the flu vaccine is different and is decided through guesswork as to what strain will be more predominant that year. :P
This is true. Though to help deal with that problem they now vaccinate against multiple flus. The season just gone was a quadrivalent vaccine.
Load More Replies...So basically get on with it today because tomorrow won't be any different?
well, no not really. The pandemic is coming around. The virus will mutate as will the different vaccines. I just thought of something. I wonder how many people are going to start misusing the word pandemic. About a year ago next week I think is when I first looked up the word and the difference between epidemic and pandemic. And now I haven't used epidemic for over a year.
Same as influenza. Every year you need a new vaccine since it mutates.
Load More Replies...Vaccine Rollout
actually, i watched coronavirus explained in netflix and it said we only need 4 billion vaccines lol
2021
Pandemic Doctor Visits
Other than moving an eye doctor appointment, none of these changed for me last year. It was all still in person.
The 3rd and 6th sure are flexible! I’m POSITIVE the last guy was really calling the doctor for turning into rubber!
Covid In Hell
"Naw, my victim recovered." (Hey! Why can't we be positive here? (Or negative, as it were.))
Weekend
that weekend is WAY too much for me. Though I would take away yoga, brunch and shopping and replace it with flying.
The problem with the left graph is the play date and visiting friends. Remove other people and you can still do yoga, brunch, watch movies, shop and have coffee during covid. Other people are hell
Us Tech Jobs
I think that it is a good thing, and please don’t call me Shirley.
Load More Replies...And this is leading to the housing market in medium sized cities to go crazy when people who made 150K in San Fransisco and couldn't afford to buy a tiny condo move to say...Madison, WI and can afford to buy a 4bdrm house...average house prices here are soaring faster than usual
Getting Vaccine
Absolute morons, the lot of them. Stick all anti-vaxxers on an isolated island and see how they survive on lavender oil and patchouli.
Load More Replies...lot of moron who still don't wnat vaccine... i say just let them die. don't care.
I don’t care if they die either but they will get everyone else sick and help the mutations spread
Load More Replies...Pandemic Day 562
Honey I'm Home All The Time
Covid Case Count
People have been dying from the effects of the vaccine (only the elderly)
Hope
That used to be associated with heroin junkies and look how we are right now
love this, but imagine getting stabbed by a needle coming from thousands of feet above you!
There’s so much hope I can literally FEEL it every time I go outside now (which is increasingly more often thanks to vaccinations).
Load More Replies...Pandemic Valentines
Butt —- toilet paper ? Hmm what about those retards who hoarded all the toilet paper when it’s started lol
The last one should be a bidet since all the Americans had to learn the hard way when the TP ran out lol
Auckland pandemic Valentines: Until 7:00: normal 7:00: Jacinda is like “Roses are red, violets are blue, Auckland’s in lockdown and everyone else is Level 2” Shortly after that: Civil Defence notification to everyone’s phones *restaurants empty out very fast* (the lockdown was actually from 11:59pm but people wanted to play it safe)
Screen Shot
Pandemic Dating
Still Waiting For Vaccine
You have to drive your own medical bus. They don't make it easy, so you must be aggressive.
Public Transit
Valentines Day
Nah - you'd have the glasses of wine in your hands not on the table.
Load More Replies...Auckland before and after 7:00pm lol (Jacinda put us in a short lockdown because of community cases)
laughed so hard i gave myself a nosebleed, dunno why but this is so funny
The World
Sry if this is offensive, but I don't really get it. Is it like the world is seperated and social distancing?
How Pangea was 1 continent then it split into today’s continents
Load More Replies...Bikini
That bikini does not belong in 2021! Send it back to 2009 where it belongs.
It may not be amazing, but it's better than nothing.
Load More Replies...Getting my first at 1035 today. Pfizer, which my RN cousin says is the best.
Load More Replies...It may not be amazing, but it's better than nothing.
Load More Replies...Getting my first at 1035 today. Pfizer, which my RN cousin says is the best.
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