“What about your friends and relatives who are not vaccinated?”
“Anyone who refuses to be vaccinated have shown themselves to be too dumb with which to associate. I have no friends who are not vaccinated. Everyone in my immediate family are vaccinated. As for the other acquaintances and relatives who are not, [expletive] ’em.”
From the standpoint of the coronaviruses, there’s nothing more glorious than a 7-billion-Petri-dish breeding ground in which they can try out new and interesting ways of propagating themselves. Omicron may be the most recent variant, but absent worldwide vaccination, it will certainly not be the last. COVID doesn’t give a rip that omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. After it blows by that designation, it’s on to Cyrillic.
They are determined to polarize, divide, and destroy America.
Lincoln believed in government of, by, and for the people and he saved the Union.
The #zombies of today’s #fake_GOP want government of, by, and for the Donald. They just need to dump the last believers in government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%.
Peaceful democracy in a republic? They’re against it.
And a failed practice insurrection “led” by cowards and losers is still an #insurrection.
I have to wonder if the health insurance companies will refuse to pay any ICU costs if the person simply refused the vaccine. Of course any who can provide Dr.’s excuse might be exempt. Wonder now many Dr.s will want to get pulled into those lawsuits.
Sorry, the case of “religious exemption”, should not apply. I don’t know an example, in any religious text. Hmm… maybe if a mega church makes those claims they get stuck with the bill.
There is a hope that the virus will tend to mutate to be more transmissible but cause less severe illness, like the common cold. It is, in evolutionary terms, not in the ‘best interest’ of the virus to kill its host. The best for the virus is to infect some one, multiply and pass its copies of itself onto new hosts. Need to wait and see with Omicron, but in the mean time, vaccinate, keep a window open, wear a mask, wash hands for 20 seconds every hour and keep your distance.
What are we going to do when the Drews of this world finally collapse under the strain? I wish my frail elderly catholic friend, who lives in the “certain knowledge” that all vaccines are made from murdered babies (source: The Internet) and would literally die rather than be vaxed, could be reached by pictures of Drew’s ICU. But that’s a dream.
Read some article where an avid antivaxxer died of Covid and then the father started getting hate mail as if his son causing the death of himself and who knows how many more is a good thing and they should not be criticized for it!! Anyway 41 and left a family. Boy did he own me!!
As far as the strip itself, I’d say Darwin was right about survival of the fittest (smartest). The only people I feel sorry for are the kids who have no say in the choice of vaccination or not and the health care providers who will end up caring for these people. Any adult that doesn’t take the shot because of the BS on FaceCrook, Faux (not) News or any of the other disseminator sites that hawk about the supposedly side effects, well you’ve made your choice and now you have to suffer the consequences of that choice.
My wife just got her booster. I’ve been trying to schedule mine, but so far, most of the time slots I want are full up. In a way, that’s a good problem to have. It tells me more and more people are being responsible and doing the right thing.
Too many people need incentives or even threats to get the shots.
With smallpox, polio, and many, many other diseases people didn’t complain, whine, or need to be prompted – they thought of others (and not just their own family), lined up, rolled up their sleeves, and said “Thank you!” to those giving them the immunizations.
This nation has fallen into the sewer over just a few simple pricks.
It’s not all doom & gloom. What I’ve not seen mentioned, at all, is that it’s highly likely that the nascent anti-viral drugs from both Pfizer and Merck will be just as effective against any new SARS-CoV-2 variant as they’ve been shown to be in trials. The drugs work by completely different biochemical mechanisms than the vaccines. (Details are readily available on the web.) Consequently, they’re likely to be entirely immune to the development of resistant variants. There are some real downsides to the drugs, however. They may be inadvisable for pregnant women (or must I say “pregnant people?”), the drugs MUST be given early in the infection to be at all effective, and they’ll be expensive. In any case, they’ll require even faster and more accessible COVID testing and they’re no replacement for getting vaccinated.
Another positive is that the current and remarkably effective mRNA vaccines are, by design, readily modifiable. It’s very likely that they can be rapidly changed to address any new variant that isn’t controlled by the current mRNA vaccines.
The vaxxed are the superspreaders. They get covid and spread it asymptomatically. They mutate it first. THe Naturally immune are the heroes. Those who have gotten it and are creating natural her immunity to prevent spread and stop the pandemic.
Not this Ed. I’m all vaxxed up, three shots so far, plus the flu shot. And, I’ve had my shingles and pneumonia vaccines, too. I’m as keep away bug-Ed as possible.
Got my booster as soon as I could, October 12. Pfizer may have to do some tweaking. I’m ready for a 4th shot in the spring. Mainly because some Americans won’t get it and folks in other countries haven’t been able to get it yet. Unfortunately, it was predictable since folks aren’t taking proper measures because they can’t or won’t depending on geography. Just because the numbers went down was no reason to stop wearing masks. We need to stay the course until we stomp it out. We are not General Custer. We can do it if enough people stay the course.
Forgive me for being spiteful, but I’m just waiting until we get the Omega variant, which I sincerely hope will finish off all the anti-maskers, political anti-vaxers, and the rest of ’em that are too stupid to protect themselves and too selfish to protect everyone around them!
The anti-vaxxers refuse to take the pandemic seriously, so here’s a joke in their honor. Q: What did one casket say to another casket? A: Is that you coffin?
I find it interesting that this has turned into a liberal vs conservative thing. Getting vaccinated doesn’t automatically mean one is liberal. Neither does not getting vaccinated mean that one is necessarily a conservative. In general, this might be true, but not always. I’m a political moderate who got vaccinated because I wanted to avoid getting the virus, and I know a person who is liberal-leaning, but didn’t get vaccinated because two different doctors told her not to because her medical issues.
Really Trudeau? You’re going to attempt to push the “it’s the conservatives that won’t get the vaccine”, BS line? Sorry, stupidity knows no political affiliation, or ethnic boundary. If you want to go there, Florida, which is conservative, has one of the lowest infection rates right now. Michigan which is liberal has one of the highest. Get you head out of your arse and just start attempting to get people vaccinated, rather than dividing the country. Amazing how you haven’t addressed the racial killing, and no cities burning over it, in Waukesha Wisconsin.
My next door neighbor is a lead ICU nurse who is totally exhausted. She and her coworkers are pissed off that ALL of the covid patients in their unit are there because they are unvaccinated. She says they are selfish and taking advantage of the health care system. One of her nurses asked, “When will the insurance companies stop paying to treat unvaccinated people?” Please be kind to our health care workers they are under a lot of pressure.
And now the GQPs are trying to claim that the new Omicron strain was engineered by Democrats, and released in time to influence the upcoming midterm elections…
Yep – that’s the intelligence level of anti-vaxxers & other Q-nuts & MAGATs, alright – “Who cares how stupid and disastrous the results, as long as it pisses off intelligent & decent people?”
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been very effectively “owning” all of those idiots who are dying to “own” the libs. The covidiots have utterly humiliated themselves, and they know it, but they’d rather die than admit that they’ve been fools, and by golly they are dying, like flies…
If Traitor Trump fools you once, shame on him. If Traitor Trump fools you 1.00001 times, shame on you. (For those unskilled at math, that would be one POINT zero zero zero zero one times.)
Went to a doctor about a week ago. He mentioned he got his booster shot and was kind of achy. I traded my story of being booster eligible the beginning of December.
A day later I realized, he could be saying this to every patient every day to probe and find their true vax status.
I got my Moderna booster a week ago. It had been seven and a half months since my second shot. I went over and walked into Walmart after church. There was no line, no one else there for a shot but me. The side effects were about the same as the first shot. I’m glad I now have added immunity. My county here in Texas is only 42% vaccinated. SMH
The decision-making ability of the Human Race is amazingly limited. You can’t build immunity against COVID-19 unless you become infected and live, dying pretty much ends in permanent immunity, but in a real bad way. Or you could get vaccinated and skip the dying altogether.
I got my booster in October, walked into my pharmacy and got it. In the “bible belt” there was no wait. People in my community think no vaccine is being “free” or something. I just do not understand repug thinking.
got my vaccines in March and my booster earlier this month and wearing my mask in all stores, malls, and any crowd of people. everything i have done so far to prevent me from getting Covid is working; no reason tto make any changes at this time! i pray all who have chosen to do the right thing will stay safe and those that have not will ASAP!
Destroying society to own the libs. Then after it’s destroyed, blaming libs for not stopping society from being destroyed. What “courage” these people have.
Keep on “owning” us, Pal. I ran out of sympathy for you anti-vaxxers a long time ago. https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/jeremy-bartlett-49-killbuck-oh-technician-anti-vaxxer-dead-from-covid
If they truly think they have one over the libs??? There are times when the evil me wishes the virus would just wipe them all out, starting with certain members of Congress…
Me too. But now another variant is on the loose. A vaccinated and boostered friend became infected with the Delta variant and is recovering slowly. I will not go to restaurants from now on. Sad. :-(
Some idiots on the far left have engaged in schadenfreude at the prospect of vaccine resistors failing the “Darwin test” and thinning the ranks of Republican voters. But I always remind them that each new infection gives the virus another opportunity to pass the “Darwin test” and mutate into a variety that thwarts current vaccines.
This is also the reason that “vaccine nationalism” is shortsighted. Yes, we need to see that all Americans have access to a vaccine, and find ways to nudge resistors so they do not endanger themselves and others. But “vaccine generosity” with the developing world also reaps long-term dividends for Americans. If a more contagious or more resistant strain of the virus develops anywhere in the world, it is bound to find its way here. Does the word “Delta variant” ring a bell?
This Thanksgiving, I’m especially thankful for scientists and medical professionals who have enabled me to resume something like a normal life, and for journalists who are combatting lies and rumors that endanger us all.
What if, when a loved one contracts COVID, it was possible to determine from whom said loved one contracted it? What if it turns out said loved one contracted it from an anti-vaxxer who’d had every opportunity to get vaccinated yet refused? What would you call that? Anyone? Anyone?
Younger kiddo got her second shot today. Older isn’t eligible for a booster, but DH and I both got our boosters in the last few weeks (his was Pfizer and was last month, I got Moderna through the hospital where I work so got my booster as soon as I could schedule it).
Getting mine on the 8th….SO wish those who haven’t gotten ANY would do so – maybe we could THEN end up surviving as a country….can’t help but wonder where it (or WE) will end!!
My family just found out the hard way that it’s really not the flu and vitamin D won’t prevent it. Luckily all survived but one did land in the hospital for 4 days after he infected his whole family.
WHOOSH!!I’m writing this before I read the comments.
A knockout blow to the jaw to be sure.But as a certain redneck comic likes to say—“YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!!”.Those who complain about this strip are the guilty parties who don’t like being found out.
Now,I’ll educate you on Drew.She was Alex’s ultra-beautiful Odd Couple roommate at M.I.T..
Alex envied her because she was so beautiful.Drew enviedAlex because she wished SHe looked that “plain” so guys would stop pawing her and respect her for her mind.
I’m just curious. You all seem so concerned about getting vaxxed and beating the COVID virus, how do you feel about the 200,000 illegal aliens that cross our southern border EVERY MONTH, without being tested or vaxxed for COVID? It’s safe to assume that a significant number of them are infected with the virus. Biden then has them transported by bus and plane to undisclosed locations, all over the country. Then he gets on TV and whines about masks and getting vaxxed! By the end of 2021, there will be more than 2 MILLION illegal aliens that are untested and unvaxxed in our country! Are you at least a little concerned about that?
Two questions for Mr. Trudeau: You draw Trump with blood on his hands because of all the COVID19 deaths under his administration, yet more people have now died from COVID19 under Biden than under Trump. Do you plan to accordingly put blood on Biden’s hands too, if you ever get around to mentioning him on your strip? And are you a cartoonist or a propaganda sheet for the Democrat party?
Sorry for your covid vax reactions. I am not anti vax but my wife and I seem to have immunity to everything. We have not had a flu shot in over twenty years and never had the flu or any kind of cold. We have been very active, ballroom dancing, professional photography conventions, weddings, portraits, groups large and small, bowling, dinner with friends, plane flights, etc. Every chance to get sick seems to skip over us. I do social distance and wear a mask in certain stores not because of strong conviction but because I know some people feel safer when I do, and I respect their truth even though it is not my truth. Science needs to study the ultra healthy to see how and why we are ultra healthy and find out what elements would transfer to the general population.
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
Got my booster on Friday.
Tammycrookshanks over 2 years ago
Now Omicron.
RAGs over 2 years ago
Imagine coffins with anti-vax stickers on them…
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 2 years ago
You go, Ed. Hope it’s a fun ride.
Plumb.Bob Premium Member over 2 years ago
My fear is that they are testing grounds for the vaccine resistant strains.
LookingGlass Premium Member over 2 years ago
Nothing says “owning the Libs” better then being dead, that’s D-E-E-E-E-D, dead!!!
<:-|
Alabama Al over 2 years ago
“What about your friends and relatives who are not vaccinated?”
“Anyone who refuses to be vaccinated have shown themselves to be too dumb with which to associate. I have no friends who are not vaccinated. Everyone in my immediate family are vaccinated. As for the other acquaintances and relatives who are not, [expletive] ’em.”
claus.rogge over 2 years ago
What does “Owning the Libs” mean? Never heard that expression …
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 years ago
From the standpoint of the coronaviruses, there’s nothing more glorious than a 7-billion-Petri-dish breeding ground in which they can try out new and interesting ways of propagating themselves. Omicron may be the most recent variant, but absent worldwide vaccination, it will certainly not be the last. COVID doesn’t give a rip that omega is the last letter of the Greek alphabet. After it blows by that designation, it’s on to Cyrillic.
nosirrom over 2 years ago
R.I.P. Bob Enyart, Phil Valentine, Jimmy DeYoung Sr., Marc Bernier, Dick Farrel, Robert David Steele, Pressley Stutts, Caleb Wallace.
reedkomicks Premium Member over 2 years ago
Who’s Ed?
shanen0 over 2 years ago
They are determined to polarize, divide, and destroy America.
Lincoln believed in government of, by, and for the people and he saved the Union.
The #zombies of today’s #fake_GOP want government of, by, and for the Donald. They just need to dump the last believers in government of the corporations, by the lawyers, for the richest 0.1%.
Peaceful democracy in a republic? They’re against it.
And a failed practice insurrection “led” by cowards and losers is still an #insurrection.
Shinrinder Premium Member over 2 years ago
#SAD!
JoeStoppinghem Premium Member over 2 years ago
I have to wonder if the health insurance companies will refuse to pay any ICU costs if the person simply refused the vaccine. Of course any who can provide Dr.’s excuse might be exempt. Wonder now many Dr.s will want to get pulled into those lawsuits.
Sorry, the case of “religious exemption”, should not apply. I don’t know an example, in any religious text. Hmm… maybe if a mega church makes those claims they get stuck with the bill.
FreyjaRN Premium Member over 2 years ago
I feel for my fellow nurses and their exhaustion.
Differentname over 2 years ago
The longer it goes on, the worse the stories about the vaccines get.
Apparently, it’s a plan by the New World Order to kill off all the sheeple who obey the rules, so they can go after the independently minded???
robertthomasson over 2 years ago
There is a hope that the virus will tend to mutate to be more transmissible but cause less severe illness, like the common cold. It is, in evolutionary terms, not in the ‘best interest’ of the virus to kill its host. The best for the virus is to infect some one, multiply and pass its copies of itself onto new hosts. Need to wait and see with Omicron, but in the mean time, vaccinate, keep a window open, wear a mask, wash hands for 20 seconds every hour and keep your distance.
martin.midgley over 2 years ago
What are we going to do when the Drews of this world finally collapse under the strain? I wish my frail elderly catholic friend, who lives in the “certain knowledge” that all vaccines are made from murdered babies (source: The Internet) and would literally die rather than be vaxed, could be reached by pictures of Drew’s ICU. But that’s a dream.
kaffekup over 2 years ago
Drew’s back!
Maybe now she can tell Alex the awesome news we never heard many years ago.
burkeen over 2 years ago
Watch out for that “almost”.
For a Just and Peaceful World over 2 years ago
What a difference a few days can make in the wacky world of COVID-19. Forget Delta, the new monster is Omicron.
NeedaChuckle Premium Member over 2 years ago
Read some article where an avid antivaxxer died of Covid and then the father started getting hate mail as if his son causing the death of himself and who knows how many more is a good thing and they should not be criticized for it!! Anyway 41 and left a family. Boy did he own me!!
Aladar30 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Stay strong Drew. You and all nurses and doctors.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 2 years ago
If THIS is what it takes to “Own the Libs”, then GO FOR IT!!!
jkurko over 2 years ago
As far as the strip itself, I’d say Darwin was right about survival of the fittest (smartest). The only people I feel sorry for are the kids who have no say in the choice of vaccination or not and the health care providers who will end up caring for these people. Any adult that doesn’t take the shot because of the BS on FaceCrook, Faux (not) News or any of the other disseminator sites that hawk about the supposedly side effects, well you’ve made your choice and now you have to suffer the consequences of that choice.
You may judge me cold but it is rational.
gantech over 2 years ago
My wife just got her booster. I’ve been trying to schedule mine, but so far, most of the time slots I want are full up. In a way, that’s a good problem to have. It tells me more and more people are being responsible and doing the right thing.
WilliamFurr over 2 years ago
Where’s the usual handful of Russian trolls that comment here? They seem suspiciously quiet today….
Display over 2 years ago
Too many people need incentives or even threats to get the shots.
With smallpox, polio, and many, many other diseases people didn’t complain, whine, or need to be prompted – they thought of others (and not just their own family), lined up, rolled up their sleeves, and said “Thank you!” to those giving them the immunizations.
This nation has fallen into the sewer over just a few simple pricks.
Alexander the Good Enough over 2 years ago
It’s not all doom & gloom. What I’ve not seen mentioned, at all, is that it’s highly likely that the nascent anti-viral drugs from both Pfizer and Merck will be just as effective against any new SARS-CoV-2 variant as they’ve been shown to be in trials. The drugs work by completely different biochemical mechanisms than the vaccines. (Details are readily available on the web.) Consequently, they’re likely to be entirely immune to the development of resistant variants. There are some real downsides to the drugs, however. They may be inadvisable for pregnant women (or must I say “pregnant people?”), the drugs MUST be given early in the infection to be at all effective, and they’ll be expensive. In any case, they’ll require even faster and more accessible COVID testing and they’re no replacement for getting vaccinated.
Another positive is that the current and remarkably effective mRNA vaccines are, by design, readily modifiable. It’s very likely that they can be rapidly changed to address any new variant that isn’t controlled by the current mRNA vaccines.
mrwiskers over 2 years ago
Me too and my spoons still won’t stick to me. So disappointed.
Free or Not? Premium Member over 2 years ago
The vaxxed are the superspreaders. They get covid and spread it asymptomatically. They mutate it first. THe Naturally immune are the heroes. Those who have gotten it and are creating natural her immunity to prevent spread and stop the pandemic.
rugeirn over 2 years ago
I’m just like a good puppy—I’ve had all my shots.
IshkaBibel1 over 2 years ago
It is an epidemic of the unvaccinated. Because.. well they all are, really.
RonaldByrd over 2 years ago
Could that guy be THIS guy? Perhaps.
https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2021/03/28
William Robbins Premium Member over 2 years ago
It’s become a tired old joke, sadly. More sadly, it’s all too true.
preacherman over 2 years ago
Not this Ed. I’m all vaxxed up, three shots so far, plus the flu shot. And, I’ve had my shingles and pneumonia vaccines, too. I’m as keep away bug-Ed as possible.
Bruce388 over 2 years ago
Ed’s pretty impressive, talking with a tube shoved down his throat. I feel owned.
hermit48 over 2 years ago
Flag that idiot.(not you puppy)
forusingyt over 2 years ago
Three words: “Darwin At Work”.
phboles over 2 years ago
My wife and I got our booster and flu shots a few weeks ago.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Darwin.
Bakkie over 2 years ago
Hmmm. Anyone have a link to the story line about the AIDS deaths where Joanie kept vigil?
Radish the wordsmith over 2 years ago
Unvaxed Republicans are becoming a smaller minority every day.
mindjob over 2 years ago
They were going to call it the Xi variant, but WHO caved to his majesty
Redd Panda over 2 years ago
Just heard. An improved variant, Omichron, heading our way.
Back into the bunker. Eating spam and graham crackers.
montessoriteacher over 2 years ago
Got my booster as soon as I could, October 12. Pfizer may have to do some tweaking. I’m ready for a 4th shot in the spring. Mainly because some Americans won’t get it and folks in other countries haven’t been able to get it yet. Unfortunately, it was predictable since folks aren’t taking proper measures because they can’t or won’t depending on geography. Just because the numbers went down was no reason to stop wearing masks. We need to stay the course until we stomp it out. We are not General Custer. We can do it if enough people stay the course.
Linguist over 2 years ago
Forgive me for being spiteful, but I’m just waiting until we get the Omega variant, which I sincerely hope will finish off all the anti-maskers, political anti-vaxers, and the rest of ’em that are too stupid to protect themselves and too selfish to protect everyone around them!
positivethinker05 over 2 years ago
Anyone walking much?
montessoriteacher over 2 years ago
The anti-vaxxers refuse to take the pandemic seriously, so here’s a joke in their honor. Q: What did one casket say to another casket? A: Is that you coffin?
alibey over 2 years ago
With a survival rate of 99.9+%?
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
Remember there were people who thought fighting seat belt laws was worth dying for . This is an EXACT analogy.
brick10 over 2 years ago
Don’t be taking up a needed bed.
Lola85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
I find it interesting that this has turned into a liberal vs conservative thing. Getting vaccinated doesn’t automatically mean one is liberal. Neither does not getting vaccinated mean that one is necessarily a conservative. In general, this might be true, but not always. I’m a political moderate who got vaccinated because I wanted to avoid getting the virus, and I know a person who is liberal-leaning, but didn’t get vaccinated because two different doctors told her not to because her medical issues.
PoodleGroomer over 2 years ago
They need to add him to the lung transplant list. The nonvaccinated list is at the bottom of the trash can.
GaryCooper over 2 years ago
Yep. Those anti-mask, anti-vaccine protesters are showing us. Proving they’d rather die. Quite literally.
BeniHanna6 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Really Trudeau? You’re going to attempt to push the “it’s the conservatives that won’t get the vaccine”, BS line? Sorry, stupidity knows no political affiliation, or ethnic boundary. If you want to go there, Florida, which is conservative, has one of the lowest infection rates right now. Michigan which is liberal has one of the highest. Get you head out of your arse and just start attempting to get people vaccinated, rather than dividing the country. Amazing how you haven’t addressed the racial killing, and no cities burning over it, in Waukesha Wisconsin.
ron over 2 years ago
The pandemic will be over when the last of the anti-vaxxers is dead.
dbradway1 over 2 years ago
And now it’s omicron. Never ending. But the important thing is that you can’t let the damned libs own YOU.
Egjen Skis Premium Member over 2 years ago
My next door neighbor is a lead ICU nurse who is totally exhausted. She and her coworkers are pissed off that ALL of the covid patients in their unit are there because they are unvaccinated. She says they are selfish and taking advantage of the health care system. One of her nurses asked, “When will the insurance companies stop paying to treat unvaccinated people?” Please be kind to our health care workers they are under a lot of pressure.
dlaemmerhirt999 over 2 years ago
Pretty much!
ferddo over 2 years ago
And now the GQPs are trying to claim that the new Omicron strain was engineered by Democrats, and released in time to influence the upcoming midterm elections…
Cozmik Cowboy over 2 years ago
Yep – that’s the intelligence level of anti-vaxxers & other Q-nuts & MAGATs, alright – “Who cares how stupid and disastrous the results, as long as it pisses off intelligent & decent people?”
Alexander the Good Enough over 2 years ago
The SARS-CoV-2 virus has been very effectively “owning” all of those idiots who are dying to “own” the libs. The covidiots have utterly humiliated themselves, and they know it, but they’d rather die than admit that they’ve been fools, and by golly they are dying, like flies…
Godfreydaniel over 2 years ago
If Traitor Trump fools you once, shame on him. If Traitor Trump fools you 1.00001 times, shame on you. (For those unskilled at math, that would be one POINT zero zero zero zero one times.)
donut reply over 2 years ago
Went to a doctor about a week ago. He mentioned he got his booster shot and was kind of achy. I traded my story of being booster eligible the beginning of December.
A day later I realized, he could be saying this to every patient every day to probe and find their true vax status.
sisterea over 2 years ago
More is the pity
monya_43 over 2 years ago
I got my Moderna booster a week ago. It had been seven and a half months since my second shot. I went over and walked into Walmart after church. There was no line, no one else there for a shot but me. The side effects were about the same as the first shot. I’m glad I now have added immunity. My county here in Texas is only 42% vaccinated. SMH
Dragoncat over 2 years ago
So… Will we need a 4th booster for Omicron?
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 2 years ago
The decision-making ability of the Human Race is amazingly limited. You can’t build immunity against COVID-19 unless you become infected and live, dying pretty much ends in permanent immunity, but in a real bad way. Or you could get vaccinated and skip the dying altogether.
ann.m.kennedy over 2 years ago
I got my booster in October, walked into my pharmacy and got it. In the “bible belt” there was no wait. People in my community think no vaccine is being “free” or something. I just do not understand repug thinking.
j.l.farmer over 2 years ago
got my vaccines in March and my booster earlier this month and wearing my mask in all stores, malls, and any crowd of people. everything i have done so far to prevent me from getting Covid is working; no reason tto make any changes at this time! i pray all who have chosen to do the right thing will stay safe and those that have not will ASAP!
moondog42 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Destroying society to own the libs. Then after it’s destroyed, blaming libs for not stopping society from being destroyed. What “courage” these people have.
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
As James T Kirk said in ’The Undiscovered Country, ’ “Let them die.”
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 2 years ago
Keep on “owning” us, Pal. I ran out of sympathy for you anti-vaxxers a long time ago. https://www.sorryantivaxxer.com/post/jeremy-bartlett-49-killbuck-oh-technician-anti-vaxxer-dead-from-covid
JenSolo02 over 2 years ago
If they truly think they have one over the libs??? There are times when the evil me wishes the virus would just wipe them all out, starting with certain members of Congress…
The Wolf In Your Midst over 2 years ago
If an anti-vaxxer dies of COVID, I don’t get mad. I don’t get happy. I don’t feel anything. I just say “good riddance” and carry on with my life.
MFRXIM Premium Member over 2 years ago
Me too. But now another variant is on the loose. A vaccinated and boostered friend became infected with the Delta variant and is recovering slowly. I will not go to restaurants from now on. Sad. :-(
waltkamp over 2 years ago
Some idiots on the far left have engaged in schadenfreude at the prospect of vaccine resistors failing the “Darwin test” and thinning the ranks of Republican voters. But I always remind them that each new infection gives the virus another opportunity to pass the “Darwin test” and mutate into a variety that thwarts current vaccines.
This is also the reason that “vaccine nationalism” is shortsighted. Yes, we need to see that all Americans have access to a vaccine, and find ways to nudge resistors so they do not endanger themselves and others. But “vaccine generosity” with the developing world also reaps long-term dividends for Americans. If a more contagious or more resistant strain of the virus develops anywhere in the world, it is bound to find its way here. Does the word “Delta variant” ring a bell?
This Thanksgiving, I’m especially thankful for scientists and medical professionals who have enabled me to resume something like a normal life, and for journalists who are combatting lies and rumors that endanger us all.
willie_mctell over 2 years ago
It’s like the various internet challenges. Eating detergent pods to become famous.
RonaldByrd over 2 years ago
What if, when a loved one contracts COVID, it was possible to determine from whom said loved one contracted it? What if it turns out said loved one contracted it from an anti-vaxxer who’d had every opportunity to get vaccinated yet refused? What would you call that? Anyone? Anyone?
liberalnlovinit over 2 years ago
And the Omicron variant is on the way…
schillil over 2 years ago
Younger kiddo got her second shot today. Older isn’t eligible for a booster, but DH and I both got our boosters in the last few weeks (his was Pfizer and was last month, I got Moderna through the hospital where I work so got my booster as soon as I could schedule it).
writerofstories over 2 years ago
Getting mine on the 8th….SO wish those who haven’t gotten ANY would do so – maybe we could THEN end up surviving as a country….can’t help but wonder where it (or WE) will end!!
lindz.coop Premium Member over 2 years ago
My family just found out the hard way that it’s really not the flu and vitamin D won’t prevent it. Luckily all survived but one did land in the hospital for 4 days after he infected his whole family.
GaryCooper over 2 years ago
Got a COVID booster shot and a flu shot last week. Neither is 100% effective, but 90% effective is better than 0% effective.
198.23.5.11 over 2 years ago
WHOOSH!!I’m writing this before I read the comments.
A knockout blow to the jaw to be sure.But as a certain redneck comic likes to say—“YOU CAN’T FIX STUPID!!”.Those who complain about this strip are the guilty parties who don’t like being found out.
Now,I’ll educate you on Drew.She was Alex’s ultra-beautiful Odd Couple roommate at M.I.T..
Alex envied her because she was so beautiful.Drew enviedAlex because she wished SHe looked that “plain” so guys would stop pawing her and respect her for her mind.
droid714 over 2 years ago
I’m just curious. You all seem so concerned about getting vaxxed and beating the COVID virus, how do you feel about the 200,000 illegal aliens that cross our southern border EVERY MONTH, without being tested or vaxxed for COVID? It’s safe to assume that a significant number of them are infected with the virus. Biden then has them transported by bus and plane to undisclosed locations, all over the country. Then he gets on TV and whines about masks and getting vaxxed! By the end of 2021, there will be more than 2 MILLION illegal aliens that are untested and unvaxxed in our country! Are you at least a little concerned about that?
miamidude over 2 years ago
Two questions for Mr. Trudeau: You draw Trump with blood on his hands because of all the COVID19 deaths under his administration, yet more people have now died from COVID19 under Biden than under Trump. Do you plan to accordingly put blood on Biden’s hands too, if you ever get around to mentioning him on your strip? And are you a cartoonist or a propaganda sheet for the Democrat party?
jwebphoto over 2 years ago
Sorry for your covid vax reactions. I am not anti vax but my wife and I seem to have immunity to everything. We have not had a flu shot in over twenty years and never had the flu or any kind of cold. We have been very active, ballroom dancing, professional photography conventions, weddings, portraits, groups large and small, bowling, dinner with friends, plane flights, etc. Every chance to get sick seems to skip over us. I do social distance and wear a mask in certain stores not because of strong conviction but because I know some people feel safer when I do, and I respect their truth even though it is not my truth. Science needs to study the ultra healthy to see how and why we are ultra healthy and find out what elements would transfer to the general population.
Call me Ishmael over 2 years ago
Thanks to the V.A., all three shots on first day eligible! Amazingly organized mass vax of hundreds per day! Yay for “Socialism” !