How to Cope

As retirees comfortable in our rural home, well distanced from others with plenty of distractions for entertainment but without the kinds of distractions that add stress and frustrations (like kids or the symptoms of isolation), we don't have much to "cope" with so far in this pandemic. One of the coping mechanisms being shared with us, however, is ancient and proven. Humor abounds on the interweb, apparently, as Bonnie gets a steady flow of copied and shared meme's from one of her horse friends. They've kept us laughing for several days now, so we thought we should share them with the legion of followers of this blog :).

They come in classes based on phenomena unique to this environment. First and foremost is the focus on toilet accessories. In specific, toilet paper:

Warning: Dad Joke ahead

From the crASS: 

To the discerning 

Then there are distancing protocols:

The fact that businesses are forced to close with people losing jobs is not funny, but the impact on customers can be:

Working from home can present interesting conundrum's:

Testing could be a class, but you have to look for it's humor:

And of course there's that whole MASK thing: