Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 22, 2021

Sugar-free is a good idea…

Something makes this 25-year-old cartoon somehow topical today…

can’t quite put my finger on it.

Hopefully the side effect is sterility.

I have a long time suspicion that most prescription drugs are named after the researchers’ Dungeons and Dragons character.

I would get the COVID vaccine, but I want one that will let women know that I’m secure in my masculinity. Maybe a wolf picture on the syringe?

“I know I should get a covid shot (I’ll never admit that around my buddies) but the government told me I should so now I don’t want too. I have rights”

Thanks to Republican Anti-Vaxxers, the U.S. May Never Reach COVID-19 Herd Immunity — The huge percentage of GOP voters refusing to get vaccinated is likely to drag out the pandemic. (vanityfair.com)

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If you refuse to get vaccinated, you should:

Not be permitted to cross state lines

Not be permitted to travel by air or rail

Not be permitted on federal grounds or in federal buildings

Not be permitted within 100 yards of a public school

Not be eligible for federal programs

Not be eligible for health insurance

Only exception from the above per a signed examination from a licensed physician, renewed annually.

Any violation of the above should be subject to charges of bioterrorism.

Fifty varieties of the same brand of toothpaste.

“In other news, the 2002 rollout of the Panacea pill was postponed indefinitely, when Big Pharma realized that they would never make another dollar.”

“Kids are different today,” I hear every mother say

Mother needs something today to calm her down

And though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill

She goes running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper

And it helps her on her way, gets her through her busy day…"

Too bad they couldn’t plan a version for people who are anti-vax or distrust doctors…

The cartoon’s concept of Pharma making the same product and then giving them all different packages to make more $$ is sad and true. The other sad thing is that most of the research and development of drugs is done by the NIH, a federal agency. We pay for the development and the high prices Pharma asks.

There is a panacea but it’s not a pill, anyone can grow it and it’s likely to put a significant dent in big pharma’s profits. Hint-it’s mostly green.