Ready for 2023 to be the warmest year on record?

Like, everyone: "But Americans have COVID fatigue..."

Smart people: "Um, better than Long-COVID chronic fatigue, brain fog, and heart failure, right? Masks and vaccines aren't hard."

Might be a good time to buy a new console and a game or two. This could be a not-worst-case scenario. Pull up a big ass dog bed and some snacks and chill.

What could possibly go wrong? Humans are rational, logical beings who...oh no.

Greeted with a smile, guarantee!

"The hoarder has yet to be found. Several roaches are being questioned."

They should really jail that iguana if it keeps doing this.

And built-in masks.

One of the few (but too many) states where trash bandits can be kept as pets. They're adorable and curious and cuddly, but they are not nice critters, and they're rabies vectors (as most mammals can be).

Maybe more. If it's cold out, you can put your food outside.

Lot of talk of docs over-prescribing cortisone shots, but it's partly our fault too. We want that tangible, immediate fix--a "cure," rather than months of rehab, weight loss, exercise, lifestyle changes, etc. Hell, I've taken the shot just to get through a performance--and later spent months rehabing that joint to near new. But I don't think a shot every 10 years is causing much damage.

From a scientific/therapy standpoint, the increased arthritis in this case could partly be people continuing the behaviors that sparked the arthritis in the first place--without the usual pain/inflammation, they don't take extra care (OP's comment elsewhere highlights this too).

Wait, is that how that works? What if I have a drug test coming up? Where are my front teeth and Mountain Dew!

mpox? VLC opens those too.

Fighting the good fight I see.

This guy's done meth...wait.

Doesn't he have like 9 or 10 kids? Sex is already ruined for him at least.

You know. I kind of wish they wouldn't do that.

No problem here.

Never mind that there are hardly any religions that actually forbid vaccinations or bathing or any other standard medical practices.

Deer COVID? Sure, put it in the basket and let's go.

But, but, the lower taxes! The economy! Biden cancelled the Keystone XL!

-some whiny Republicans who would rather support Nazi beliefs and pseudoscience than women and the environment

Oh, damn. I've had nearly constant headaches too, but that's been happening since COVID started at least (I assume that is heat/stress related).

Just for discussion purposes, my headaches feel like mild to moderate hangover level, sometimes one-sided, and acetaminophen/NSAIDS do almost nothing. And they come on with no apparent cause. Yours?

Haven't heard about the loss of reading ability, but for a couple weeks after COVID I would regularly lose pretty common words and spoken sentences would just dissolve into pauses.

Thanks! Knew that didn't sound right.

Gimp Man: worst Mega Man robot master ever. But he can take a beating.

edit: fixed a word