Pandemic memes 2023

a collection of memes, some I’ve made, some found, links and credit where known

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The picture is of a terracotta flue, a part of a chimney, the word flue is written on it spelled F L U E. The caption reads smallpox never became the flu. Thousands of years and smallpox never became like the flu.
Image is quoted text, “Hospitals are documented virus amplifiers and masking should remain in place.” — Rob Wallace, Evolutionary Epidemiologist on the People’s CDC, Covid This Week hashtag #KeepMasksInHealthcare
The photo is of an astronaut on the moon in full space suit and holding a video camera, in his helmet visor you can see another astronaut being reflected. The caption above the astronaut reads I think taking my helmet off would really improve my mental health. (by chloe)
The image is the cartoon of Lucy pulling the football away at the last minute when Charlie Brown tries to kick it and he goes flying into the air while she smiles. The caption says changing airborne disease mitigations based on the end of the PHE declaration. Basing critical medical decisions on a political football. Underneath in quotations is the phrase Following the politics unquote. @teamshumanfox
Image is hello kitty wearing a mask the caption reads make events inclusive. please require masks don’t forget about your community’s most vulnerable! by at safespaceli
A person in a business suit jacket and tie is looking at a sheet of paper in the first picture looking confused and disgusted, in the second picture the man is looking up at someone looking distressed and confused. The caption reads me looking at instagram wondering why everyone is posting their superspreader activities with reckless abandon. Found in a Nature article
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pandemic
from @ChiaWang8 http://aerosol.nsysu.edu.tw/en/scopes/108
from @illingston on twitter
The image is a movie poster for “Christine”, The header says ending the global healthcare. a red sports car’s headlights are coming out of the darkness with a clown head stuck to the grill. In large red letters at the bottom it says because you want to commute. Tegnell’s eyes with spectacles are seen in a rearview mirror, Tedros from the World Health Organization has his fingers at his temple and his eyes look toward the words Brownstone Institute, Some other guy has the caption next to him that says airbags are an overkill just keep your hands clean. Another caption says seatbelts are not letting you develop crash immunity. from @rogerGustafsso2@forall.social / @RogerGustafsso2
Robotnik Pushing Red Buttons meme, the left red button is labeled preserve the status quo, the right red button is labeled lie to hold onto power, the hand is in the hang loose hand gesture position, pressing the left red button with a thumb, and the right red button with a pinky finger simultaneously. The caption below reads elite panic buttons. 
Image includes a screenshot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, includes a black and white photo portrait of Warren G Harding in a business suit with white hair, his elbow on a table, his hand against his cheek with a finger pointing up, his expression is stern. The text from Wikipedia reads quote “Return to normalcy” unquote was a campaign slogan used by Warren G. Harding during the 1920 United States presidential election. Harding would go on to win the election with 60.4% of the popular vote. 1920 election. In a speech delivered on May 14, 1920, Harding proclaimed that America needed “not nostrums, but normalcy”. Two months later, during a homecoming speech, Harding reaffirmed his endorsement of “normal times and a return to normalcy.” World War I and the Spanish flu had upended life, and Harding said that it altered the perspective of humanity. He argued that the solution was to seek normalcy by restoring life to how it was before the war. Harding’s conception of normalcy for the 1920s included deregulation, civic (text cut off) Another screenshot is a graph labeled American Journal of Public Health charts 3 surge waves of influenza and pneumonia mortality through the 1920s, in 1922, 1923, and 1926. A caption on top says Infectious disease does not respect political campaigns nor PR campaigns. A caption on the bottom reads Through the 1920s, the Sanitarians recognized that the problem continued and was in need of solutions and action, including political action, and that call to action written by JAMES A. TOBEY, was published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1928 PMC1580932. link at the bottom of the image is linktr.ee/teamshuman
Gif image with 3 panels of digital cartoon. First is little red riding hood talking to a wolf labeled coronavirus, she says: “I’m not afraid of you” and the wolf says “Take me to Grandma & how about some Long Covid” the second panel is of a trojan horse with a wooden door opened partially revealing cartoon viruses, it’s standing outside a fortress gate, and the guard is saying “Of course we do not need to test. Just let it in.” and the third panel is a zombie in a dark street at night saying “Just one more wave of COVID & we will achieve herd immunity.” A message from Health Watch USA
The Most Interesting Man meme beer commercial guy with white hair and a dinner jacket leaning on the table with one elbow and saying I don’t always need to go to the hospital but when I do I don’t want them to *GIVE* me diseases there.
The drawing is white on a black background simple drawing of 2 astronauts floating in space suits and the caption reads oh please take it off. I can’t see your smile.
There’s a mask image that’s labeled mask at the top the words say you can either mask now or wish you had later and the bottom has images of the coronaviruses. Found posted by @scott_squires
This is not fine meme the dog sitting in a room and instead of flames the dog is surrounded with coronaviruses Found online
The image has the clickhole logo at top, the photo is of a forest fire with a firefighter in a helmet in front of trees sihlouetted by engulfing flames. the caption reads Deeply troubling: new projections suggest that climate change could continue well into next year. The bottom says liked by – redacted – and 2,402 others. clickhole: so much for getting back to pre-industrial tempearature averages in time for Christmas.
The cartoon shows 7 people standing in a circle in a swimming pool surrounded by yellow water to represent that they’re all peeing in the pool and all pointing their fingers at the person in the middle is wearing a mask and the water is clear around that person who looks embarrassed while the people peeing and pointing at the masked person not peeing in the pool look confident and aggressive.
The meme with the beer commercial guy with white hair and an evening jacket leaning into the camera with one elbow on the table, the caption saysI don’t always need to visit the doctors but when I do I don’t want to get covid from them
From https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/how-and-when-to-start-exercising-again-after-covid-19
Healthcare workers, your smiles are killign people. Grow up and be professional. You’re supposed to be helping people, not spreading a deadly disease. Covid is airborne. An N95 mask protects your patients and yourself. Do the right thing. Posted by scott_squires
Picture of a 3M Aura N95 respirator mask and the caption reads Prevention is better than a cure especially when something has no cure posted by scott_squires
Image is holiday themed with pine branches, candy canes, a santa hat, a ball ornament, and snowflakes. Text says: Don’t risk your family and friends this Christmas season on covid-test wish-casting. Take a test. And if it’s positive, treat it as a positive. False negatives are common. False positives are very rare. Rest, stay home, mask if you must go out, and check in with your doctor. google: FDA Reduce Your Risk of False Negative Results
Image is holiday themed with pine branches, candy canes, a santa hat, a ball ornament, and snowflakes. Text says: Don’t risk your family and friends this holiday season on covid-test wish-casting. Take a test. And if it’s positive, treat it as a positive. False negatives are common. False positives are very rare. Rest, stay home, mask if you must go out, and check in with your doctor. google: FDA Reduce Your Risk of False Negative Results
The image is of christmas decorations including ferns and roses some bells with ribbons and holly berries, and the text reads holiday cheer depends on community care please wear a mask while you’re out and about to reduce the spread of respiratory illness, so that the seniors and disabled in your community can spend the holidays with their families instead of at the hospital. Happy holidays.
The head text reads upgrade your masking. Upgraded masking is a good idea. Universal masking is even better.  the chart shows you and another person, with a table graph where nothing and nothing is a thumbs down, and goes through the combinations of you and another person wearing a cloth mask, surgical mask, and N95, in succession of  different combinations, with the most beneficial being both people wearing N95 masks denoted by 2 masked emojis one with hearts and the other also wearing a party hat. Bullet list of text at the bottom says 3M.com: “There is no time limit to wearing an N95. Respirators can be worn until they are dirty, damaged, or difficult to breathe through.” Look for the youtube video: “The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks by MinutePhysics” on how and why N95 masks work as an effective filter.  PMID: 34407516: “11 out of 16 RCTs that underwent a pairwise meta-analysis revealed a substantially lower infection risk in those donning medical face masks” there is an instagram icon with at teamshumanfox and a little fox icon.
Image has graphic holiday trees and a string of Christmas lights. Text says: Holiday shopping PSA Lots of businesses don’t want you to know about this, but because of labor shortages, workers are being required to report to work while sick and contagious. In some of these places masks are forbidden by the employer so as to not remind people of the pandemic. These sick & contagious employees are working maskless right now. Their bosses don’t care if you get sick, or if it spreads to your grandma, they just want your money. Mask for shopping if you don’t want to get sick happy holidays
The image with the NYC Health logo is a flat design graphic art picture of a snowman wearing a N95 mask the background has snowflakes and the words Mask Up – found on NYC Health social media
The image is a photo of a flyer with a drawing of a N95 respirator mask that says give us care not covid universal masking now and next to the flier is a calendar that says Wednesday 20 December 2023 and it has a photo from the sick bay in Star Trek Enterprise with a patient on the exam table with 3 people standing nearby the captain of the graphic says we don’t have star trek doctors with anti-pathogen force fields and includes the hashtag Keep Masks In Healthcare