Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 10, 2020

Calvin wants to do his part to create herd immunity.

I believe this is the doctor’s last appearance.

Really stinks. He was a fun character.

I believe that twitch started the minute Calvin started walking and talking.

Keep him in a box, and under the stairs!!!

Mom, it’s really simple: Lock away Calvin and put on earplugs.

With good reason, Doc.

haha, I forgot about this one. Calvin’s mom’s face is a classic. Just this dreaded feeling of horror dawning on her.

Well, we always knew Calvin had something to give to the world! Hope Hobbes is immune!

Chicken pox, the gift that returns as shingles decades later. Not fun at all (I know from personal experience). :(

I had chicken pox during the summer (this was before the vaccine was avalable).

“That’s it’s all just a little bit of history repeating. " Shirley Bassey + The Propeller heads

Calvin in lockdown for three months, it doesn’t bare thinking about… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8

I know his mother will either have a nervous breakdown or become an alcoholic!

And there goes Mom’s sanity!

“What is this guy, a veterinarian?” “Sue him, drive his malpractice insurance rates up.”

Calvin has become quite the comedian. I love it.

You better prescribe some medication for Mom, Doc….SHE’S GONNA NEED IT!

Inner city Chicago, 1947, parents would send their healthy children to visit sick kids so they would catch the sickness; thereby getting it over with. Does that still happen?

Back in my day, it was “Put all you kids together. They’ll all get it at once and I’ll give you a group rate and you’ll be done with it forever.” Didn’t know about shingles then.

So, where does one purchase a week’s worth of kiddie heroin?

Calvin should be grateful he doesn’t have to go to school for a whole week. He can stay in bed, hang out with Hobbes, and read comic books.

The part where he calls the doc a veterinarian really cracked me up.

This represents almost every mom in March…lol

I had chicken pox. Loved it. Felt fine, no school, could go outside as long as no other kids were around, got to play with whatever I wanted and didn’t have to share. Of course now I got the shingles vaccine to keep it from coming back, I hope.

Don’t remember which adult wasn’t vaccinated.

Re Panel 3: I grew up when the theory was to allow kids to NOT Social Distance, so we all got measles, mumps, and chicken pox at the same time and got it over with.

You better stop, look around

Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes

Here comes your nineteenth nervous breakdown

I got chicken pox and mumps, both during the middle of the school year. I hated having to stay home from school.

The mother’s reaction in the last panel is very relevant now.

Hahaha, panel 4: just like Calvin to try and monetise every opportunity!

My little brother got Chicken Pox when he was 6. He gave it to me. I was 20. Him no problems. Me miserable. Fortunately there was no ill effects on my guys. Got the shingles vaccine as soon as my insurance company said I was eligible. No shingles so far. Hope it stays that way.

David Letterman’s “Top ten thins about having shingles” March 31, 2003

10. There’s nothing good about the ****ing shingles. The ****suckers are so *damn painful, every minute you pray some giant son-of-a-bitch will shove a red-hot poker up your *.

9.

8….

I think Calvin is really a crazy old man trapped in a little imp’s body! ;o{

Laughing.. every panel is a laugh.

When my Dad was dying, he spent a couple of weeks screaming in pain. His immune system was compromised by other ailments that would have caused little pain on their own, but the compromised immune system allowed shingles to cover the entire left side of his head and shoulders. This was a guy who made it through the depression, WWll, and a major car wreck with a sense of humor about the whole thing. His doctor, also his golfing buddy, finally gave him an overdose of morphine and killed him. We thanked him and he warned us that he would lose his license and possibly go to jail if we said anything to anyone, and besides, he didn’t know what we were talking about.

When my dog became sick and old enough that his life was more pain than pleasure, the vet stuck a needle in his leg and he was gone with no pain in about 30 seconds.

I’m 76, and I have been trying to get my vet to accept me as a patient , but she has an unreasonable prejudice against my species. When will we learn that when it comes to fatal pain, being treated like a dog is a really good option?

Just imagine what Calvin would be like if he had Covid.

When my kids had that, the doctor figured that’s the last outbreak he’d see as all the younger kids were vaccinated for chicken pox. My two did not have much trouble with it.

Ha, Typhoid Calvin sees his opportunity!

This might be one of the funniest Calvin strips I’ve ever seen! By the way: Mom – ask the Doc for a Valium prescription while you’re there.

Mom hell.

Imagine having Calvin these days

LOL!!!!!!!!!

LOL

The doctor didn’t say INSIDE. He said to keep him away from other kids. The kid will be fine in the back yard under a tree with a bowl of water.

Before vaccine.

Mom looks like she just seen Michael Myers come through the door.

Patient Zero

I wonder what present-day parents of Calvins are doing? Lockdown is hard on us all, but it has to be really hard for the parents of hyper kids. They have all my sympathy.

The strip shows a 1990 date; the vaccine for chickenpox was available in the 60s. I remember because I was just a year or two too old to get it.

Keeping him away from other kids will be easy, he has no friends.

That’s no physician. It takes a technician to completely ignore a patient that effectively.

Good luck Mom! All the time you and Dad have been lax about disciplining Calvin all these years is about to come home to roost.

Ha—I love Calvin’s responses, and Mom’s face in the last panel. Made me laugh.