Wizard of Id Classics by Parker and Hart for April 22, 2020

Does it’s feet smell? If so it is built upside down.

THE cold virus? Nay nay!

“Many different viruses (rhinoviruses, adenoviruses, coronaviruses, and human metapneumoviruses) cause colds, but rhinoviruses (of which there are more than 100 subtypes) cause most colds.” https://www.merckmanuals.com/en-ca/home/infections/respiratory-viruses/common-cold

Oh, I get it. It’s a running joke…

Just a suspicion, but I reckon there was originally an erroneous apostrophe in the ‘its’ in the final panel, which was deleted. There’s a slight gap between the t and the s where I’m betting Parker put the offending article. Just a theory…

If your nose runs and your feet smell you were built upside down.

Buttercup is making medical decisions for the nation based on less information than that.

I did not notice the virus’ nose…did you give him a hankie?

There is no “common cold”, common would seem to imply that there is a single, indiscriminate pathogen at large. In reality, more than 200 viruses provoke cold-like illness, each one deploying its own peculiar chemical and genetic strategy to evade the body’s defenses. Hence isolating is not the problem, finding a “common” cure is.

Now to sew millions of tiny handkerchiefs…

Timely.

Wow talk about timing. What a prediction.