That headline refers to a Sidney Poitier movie from 1967 so I’m guessing some of the younger readers (assuming I have any) won’t get it and also wonder who the hell Sidney Poitier is.
Google him, it’ll be worth your while.
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner is a movie is about a white woman bringing her black fiancée home to meet her supposedly liberal parents. These days, young, old and in-between people who refuse to follow social distancing guidelines might be bringing a very different guest to the table.
I drew this cartoon after I saw video of kids on spring break acting like everything was normal. One young man said if he got the “corona” that was the breaks, but he wasn’t going to let it interfere with his partying.
Good to have standards, I guess.
Problem was he didn’t think about his parents (who probably financed his trip) and what spring break souvenir he might bring home to them. “Yeah, killed my parents, but I had a kickass time in Daytona” isn’t a story anybody wants to share.
I’d like to blame this dumbass attitude on the young, but I still see plenty of people of all age groups doing stupid stuff that is going to endanger the people around them.
This staying at home stuff sucks, but if we don’t bite the bullet now, we – or someone we love – might bite the dust later.
Great cartoon. I totally get it. But if I were that kid I probably would have done the same thing. And my parents weren’t nearly as old as I am now. And if they were smart parents they probably wouldn’t let him in the house for two weeks.
Now my rant. As Ron White says, “You can’t fix stupid”, and stupidity abounds in the authority around us. State Parks and beaches closed. People told to stay home. Hasn’t everyone heard enough news to know they can be in a parking lot or out of the house and not get within six feet of another person? They haven’t closed the parking lots of stores. But maybe they will. If people aren’t looking after themselves, let them bear the possible consequences. Maybe it will remove some of the stupidity gene.
Precisely.