Baby Blues by Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott for February 28, 2025

I don’t ordinarily comment to this strip, but I don’t find its current fixation on the notion of “germs” particularly humorous. It presents the immature Zoey character as showing that “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing”. One must infer that whatever she has heard has failed to present a comprehensive picture of human interactions with microscopic organisms — some of them symbiotic, others antagonistic, some quite neutral — and the balance between them. But I don’t see any mechanism for concluding this story arc with any education for either the character or the readers to be presented with such information.