This made me chuckle. I used to tell my martial arts students when they weren’t sure what to do pretend they had someone they respected sitting on their shoulder helping guide them. Or watching over the decisions they make.
We live in State College, :PA (pop. 43,000), where this weekend 47,000 undergraduates will return to attend Penn State. Do you think we can assign them each a Fauci for their shoulders?
And some power figure hangs a sign ordering all coming into an essential governmental office to take off their mask. Oh, Beth, that poor Fauci shoulder angel is surely getting a workout around our nation.
Follow directions. Choose to respect science. Be wary of anyone who suddenly is an expert, and happens to have a different approach that is diametrically opposite to facts. Remember that there are nefarious forces at work – and those who support them with foreign influence. Let’s remember the world used to look to us as the country that knew how to lead us out of disaster, not deeper into it.
I loved this cartoon and so much to think about. The Sunshine on my Shoulder song came to mind. I did a few lines with Fauci in place. The “others” make me cry.
And this is the guy who the right is passing off as an evil man who only cares about furthering his agenda? Perhaps they need to take a hard look over their shoulders at the con man they’re enabling?
Dr. Fauci should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart attempts to keep us safe. Instead, he and his family have to have bodyguards to protect them from deranged Trump supporters.
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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I love this: Roz Chast so well encapsulates our anxieties: funny but fraught:)
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absolutely
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So many rules!! 🙄
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things to consider
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Yes
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I think we are all suffering from a monkey on our shoulder syndrome … !!
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our little consciences are speaking, hope people listen to them
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👍👍👍
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❤
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I wish more would listen to this shoulder and not the other.
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same here )
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This made me chuckle. I used to tell my martial arts students when they weren’t sure what to do pretend they had someone they respected sitting on their shoulder helping guide them. Or watching over the decisions they make.
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jiminy cricket
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My mom (89) keeps accidentally calling him Fausti..so much to unpack there..HAHA!!!
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ha, that says so much! )
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We live in State College, :PA (pop. 43,000), where this weekend 47,000 undergraduates will return to attend Penn State. Do you think we can assign them each a Fauci for their shoulders?
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same here in ann arbor, at um. wish they could clone him
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And some power figure hangs a sign ordering all coming into an essential governmental office to take off their mask. Oh, Beth, that poor Fauci shoulder angel is surely getting a workout around our nation.
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exhausting!
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I would say we are our stories, but our choices make interesting stories. 🙂
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They do
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True that 🤓 look at Europe and what they can teach us…I listen to my relatives in Italy, the Netherlands and Spain…smiles from the north Beth…☺️☀️🤓
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Yes, and thank you
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Follow directions. Choose to respect science. Be wary of anyone who suddenly is an expert, and happens to have a different approach that is diametrically opposite to facts. Remember that there are nefarious forces at work – and those who support them with foreign influence. Let’s remember the world used to look to us as the country that knew how to lead us out of disaster, not deeper into it.
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So well said, john
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I loved this cartoon and so much to think about. The Sunshine on my Shoulder song came to mind. I did a few lines with Fauci in place. The “others” make me cry.
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I thought if that song too
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This little downer in our heads…
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It can be loud
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Very loud!
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yes. we are.
Sent from my iPad
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Indeed
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we could all use a Fauci on our shoulder…
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Or 2….)
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Funny!
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I thought so too – a great wit
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We are responsible for out own decisions.
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We are.
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so true!
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each make our own
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And this is the guy who the right is passing off as an evil man who only cares about furthering his agenda? Perhaps they need to take a hard look over their shoulders at the con man they’re enabling?
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at least a glance
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Dr. Fauci should be given the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart attempts to keep us safe. Instead, he and his family have to have bodyguards to protect them from deranged Trump supporters.
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A flipped universe and Trump thinks he should get the ‘noble’ prize
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😂
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Exactly… 🙂 🙂
Spiritulity Awakening
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❤
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For. Real.
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yes
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Funny!
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thanks!
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LOL Thanks for that one.
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))
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