Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 20, 2022

4- About to go to war in the Ukraine.

3

Sorry, Pig.

1, 2, or 3, depending on where you live.

“Three is the number thou shalt count…”

It’s going to be a repetitive loop of #2 and #3 until everybody realizes that we just have to buckle down for two months. It won’t be over until that happens.

It remains the case that time will tell…

It actually ( 1 ) but they wants you to believes it is ( 3 ).

why are we going to war in Ukraine?

Go to war in Ukraine? Not going to go directly to war over Ukraine, but the response to Ukraine may escalate to war. But Putin is playing a dangerous game. If too many of his supporters go broke, then he probably can’t survive as the last of the kleptocrats.

Technically we’re in 2, but everybody thinks it’s 1 which puts us in 3.

The last time we got to take the masks off it lasted for about a month. In the beginning of February Denmark lifted all COVID restrictions.

“At the beginning of February, Denmark became the first major country to lift the last of its COVID-19 restrictions and effectively declare its part in the pandemic over.

Around the world, and especially in the United States, Denmark’s “liberation” from indoor mask mandates, vaccine passports and nightclub closures was heralded as a watershed moment — the shape of things to come. Democratic governors across the U.S. started rescinding their own mask rules a few days later.”

“Since then, however, Denmark has continued to record more COVID-19 cases per capita than nearly anywhere else in the world, and both COVID hospitalizations and deaths have shot up by about a third.”

https://news.yahoo.com/in-warning-to-us-covid-rates-soar-after-denmark-lifts-all-restrictions-183342093.html

I’m ordering a green mask.

Option 1 is in effect here and have been for a few weeks.However I feel for Ukraine, which are under heavy thread by an evil dictator with dreams of expanding his evil empire – something was sadly easy to predict back in January. It really sucks and if events turn out really bad it could be the start of the last World war.

I’ll go with Option 1.

Sorry, Pig, I’m on option. If everything remains okay worldwide in the next 4 to 6 weeks then I will lean towards option 1

i guess that they need more money at thermol dynamics……

I choose #1.

“You have chosen…poorly.”

We don’t get to choose — the choice is made by others, in their determination to stomp their feet in the name of personal freedom.

Definitely THREE!

3

1 if you are wealthy enough to attend the Super Bowl or be in politics. Then you can make your own rules or practice special breathing/holding your breath techniques which exempt you from the mask that you force upon the rest of society.

Closer to #1 than the media would like to admit. Stats are dropping like crazy. Where I live (Michigan) we are approaching the magic 50/100,000 per week new cases threshold where CDC drops the indoor mask mandate. It was nearly 100 times that around Christmas. Telling is all of the school districts that are dropping the masking requirement.

The kid on the right of Option #2 lost his mouth. That’s disturbing. Or is it a flesh colored mask?

Watching the Daytona 500 and not giving a flip about other options.

“Oh, NO!! We’re stuck in a never ending loop of Stephan Pastis Pears Before Swine Worst Puns of 2022!!!!”

Whatever you chose makes no difference.

Factual situations can’t be changed by wishful thinking, only by prudential action.

Lol, it’s a lot of pressure, methinks! PIG, go to your room!

None of the above.

Bad news, Pig . . .

There was never a pandemic. ~ Your Friendly Moronic Politician From Texas

3 No doubt about it!

What swear words are those symbols for?

And guest writers have to come up with a 6-week storyline in a couple of days because they panic about deadlines. We then sit back and wonder how a character we cant recall adding pops up in the middle of the story.

I have a seasonal discount with my therapist, and he’s buying his third yacht.

I opt for #1!

I choose panel 4, the pun. Where is it?

Ticked 3 :-(

I would say the strip overall is option 3.

I’ll pick 1 but the government, news, & social media will pick 3 every single time.

is there an option 5 that I could pick?

Doesn’t compute. You knew we were going to be wrapping up the Olympics.

How many here have read the “Left Behind” series? ………………

How about we stop all the hate and destruction and try to get along.

If only picking an option could make it happen.

Laugh about it, talk about it, when you have to choose; anyway you look at it you lose.—-Paul Simon

My whole world lies waiting behind door number three.

Considering who you ask and where you are, all three options are true.

Will you please stop telling the Truth?

#1+#2+#3

Third opion seems the best.

Schoolhouse Rock tried to warn us; 3 is a magic number.

III …until Brandon resigns.

Yeah, it’s 3. Sorry.

You know you don’t need us, Cartoon-Boy, especially when we’re trying to respond to January-8-you while we’re here on February 20.

But, joining in the spirit of this ploy for more interactive readership: sorry, Pig, but it’s got to be Option ③!

In a way option 3 seems prophetic.

Well…

3

D…

5: Everything is fine now, but the Apocalypse is coming in a week. The Four Horsemen need some time to suit up before they wreck the world.

Sorry.I’ve got to pick “3” because it’s true.

It’s probably in option 3. But option 4 is: We’re about to go to war and the whole world might end if it becomes a nuclear war with Russia.

Tucker Carlson quotes are prominently displayed by the Russian propaganda machine these days.