Robert Ariail for August 14, 2020

We know it’s Putin because he has his shirt off.

The entirety of Russia will make up the Phase 3 trial. There’s plenty of room in Siberia to bury the bodies.

Run, Kid! RUN!

Never trust a dictator…or wannabe dictator with 6 bankruptcies…

We don’t need no stinking clinical trials. Clinical trials are for sissies who are afraid of taking risks on an unproven vaccine.

Clinical trials? Sure — we’re going to inject 3-4 million Russians and see what happens.

Russians hacked everyone else’s data.

A modern Norman Rockwell, the Twilight Hour version.

I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw the Kremlin.

Norman Rockwell just rolled over in his grave.

Norman Rockwell lives on!

The odds are actually pretty good that this will work out okay: most  vaccine trials end up showing that they were safe as well as being as effective as the early trials showed. But, of course, not all.

One of the “Views of the…” ‘toons today pointed out that Putin’s the author… or at least facilitator… of the attacks on Aleppo hospitals.

As for “clinical trials”, inject political prisoners and photograph the ones who survive.

Good one! Even Rockwell is in stitches.

Putin your family’s life in danger; Not Putin your family’s life in danger; you’re doin’ the hokey pokey.

Sadly, 30% of Americans said they would not take a vaccine, even if we had one proven safe and effective. There is no cure for stupid.

I’m glad to see that some readers recognized this as a Norman Rockwell rip-off, with no acknowledgement. Plagiarism strikes again.