THE SMOKIES Series

The Smokies

Table of contents

#1 If Smokey the Bear Worked at the CDC, Fun Camping Experience 

(Failures of the CDC )

#2 Smokey vs CDC Smokey  How to Put Out A Small Camp Fire  

(Too short isolation guidance; addressing asymptomatic spread)

#3 How to Put Out A Large Fire

(Addressing the need for strategy, organized measures, and planning)

#4 Mandate Masks VS Mandate COVID-19

(Mandating Masks brings no harm; mandating COVID brings a lot of harm)

#5 You Can Stop This Shameful Waste

(Caretaker loss, orphanhood, disabling the primary workers in households)

#6 Smokey vs YOU

(encouraging individuals to take personal responsibility by wearing a mask and doing their research)

#7 Fight vs Surrender

(We can choose to fight with the tools and research we have or surrender because we are too lazy and cowardly to try)

#8 Remember

(Remember the disabled community, they will remember you)

#9 Fire Guidance

(Pointing out how the CDCs tactics would never fly for fire guidance)

#10 Pals

(Friends do not spread misinformation, disinformation, misleading press headlines, and poor takeaways that will cause others to drop precautions prematurely without accurate information)

#11 Choose Carefully

(Government is giving warnings that more people will get COVID but that the choice to protect each other is on us)

#12 What Will It Take?

(Give Masks a chance; Endemic does not mean it is over just widespread, long COVID is spreading, and we need to stop it)

#13 Just Ducky

(Why I draw comics and use humor along with activism and staying informed to cope)

#14 The Way

(Cooperative COVID-19 Prevention or the Never-Ending Cycle of Failure)

#15 Don't Be A Guberif

(Highlighting the CDCs harmful back to school messaging and how it will spread COVID)

#16 The Song

(Highlighting the difference in tune of the Smokey Bear Song, and a mock CDC version)

#17 The Letter

(Highlighting the many individuals who are fighting by writing letters to politicians and leaders, and the absence of response, as well as the mismanagement of the CDC)

#18 A Labor Day Special

(Highlighting the need to protest industries that are not protecting people from the harmful effects of COVID and long COVID)

#19 The Interviews

(Smokey Bear gets his brother CDC Smokey fired, and is looking for a replacement)

#20 Work Together

(The brothers are fighting, but their mom comes in and says they must work together)

#21 The WHO, What, Where (The Elephant in the Room)

COVID IIS NOT THE FLU and The Problem of Ignoring Long COVID

 #22 The WHeN: When Will the Pandemic Be Over? 

(Keep Up the WHN's 5 Pillars)

#23 The Why?

(It is a right of ours to wear/ require others wear a mask in our homes, schools, workplaces, healthcare spaces, businesses) 

#24 The Wheel of MisFortune (I'd Like to Solve the Puzzle)

(Highlighting the meaning of the choice to wear a mask, vs the outcomes of not wearing a mask)

#25 Don't Bear Bad Air

Using Water Logic to prevent disease.

#26 We've Been Replaced?

(Smokey Bear is Replaced in Canada, and the Smokey family in our comic is replaced in public health messaging organizations and are now on their own, unemployed).

#27 Spying on Campers

(Smokey Bear teaches his child that it is still important to mask and ensure others who you are with to mask around you).

#28 Weigh Your Risks

Highlighting what that really means and the true weight of each risk.

#29 Faded Smoke

Highlighting the importance of the messages of the original Smokey Bear (grandpa-pappy Smokey) and remembering what our heroes would do in this situation to protect his family.

#30 Old Smokey

Old Smokey adding CR-BOX and COVID tests.

#31 The Rescue Dream

Old Smokey memory of survival through fires, need to protect children.

#32 Wake Up (Creating a "bubble" or "pod" with masking, testing and isolating protocol)

Need to take tests properly before unmasking with other households.

#33 Positive Test

How to test, read tests, and make a plan for positive cases

#34 Stompy's 14 Days of Isolation

How to properly isolate, tips on dealing with illness, research on acute and long covid.

#35 Stompy Smokey the 3rd- Hibernating (aka taking it easy inside after an infection)

The importance of chilling out after COVID infection. What you can do to self-advocate. 

#36 Stompy's Covid ABC's

Stompy puts the research in ABC order: COVID is Airborne, BA Omicron Variants are Highly. contagious and immune-evasive, CR Boxes and CADR can reduce viral density and make masking more effective.

#37 Like and Subscribe

Stompy scares away a social media spy. Links to places you can follow us.

#38 Trending Now

Stmpy's video goes viral and spooks the secret authorities trying to use propaganda to push for learned helplessness, minimizing, and denialism of COVID-19 and long COVID. Find links to people we follow on the internet for good information you can use to fight disinformation.

#39 Operation Bear Hunt

Links to short-, medium-, and long-COVID info.

#40 Family Reunion

Links to COVID-cautious Writers

#41 The Smokies Friend Pledge

Links to COVID-cautious pledges

#42 Spelunking

(Highlighting the problems of the governments ending of public health emergencies, and removing supports, as well as what we can do to stay safe)

The Smokey family's story continues in "Zorro COVID" series