The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for August 12, 2020

Oooh… cold one, Burl.

This panel is dated 2004.

Julie said years ago that she tried to keep the strip in the 1990’s… and the Pennys and Shemps in their late 50’s.

They look older sometimes, but one will occasionally have maybe a 58th birthday.

Some that we’re seeing are actually 1990’s strips.

But as the cartoonist admittedly reused panels, into the early 2000’s, she gave the characters cell phones and a few other more modern touches.

I think Burl’s digs at Jerry’s ambiguity became a bit more obvious as well.

It seems hard to believe that in the 90’s or in 2004, people in their late 50’s would be last in line for flu shots.

Seniors would be first… but I don’t remember who was next… or exactly what year they became available for everybody.

I do remember a vaccine shortage in the winter of 2009-2010… it was the only year I was volunteering in a certain community program.

Everybody in the program was passing around the flu.

You had to be at least 65, or under two, to get a flu shot… and I was neither.

I couldn’t get one… and I did eventually get the flu, a bad case, when everybody else was over it.

I was sick for months, so I’ve made sure to get vaccinated every year since.

I recommend it.

Hey… the pig really is a pig.

I expected it to be something else… even kinda had my eye on another “candidate”.

But no… it’s a pig!

Even though our Fake President doesn’t believe in the virus, he insists that he be first in line for a vaccine shot. Then all the registered Republicans come next. Then the MAGA people. If you’re really good, you get the dregs.

Timely.

I don’t like green eggs and ham

Burl’s shirt logo says Fale instead of Yale… and what’s with that picture of Joy…?

If there’s anything ahead of them in line for swine flu vaccine, it must be real swine. And they DON’T want to be seen with the Penny’s.

Found it

When I was working they had our health plan set up on campus for a couple of days for everyone to take off work and get the vaccination. Then the health plan set up vaccination stations in their lobby during peak times, taking only a few minutes to get vaccinated. Now CVS, Target, Walgreens, Kroger, etc give flu shots free if you have insurance.