Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 09, 2020

Looks like someone has varicella.

Calvin, have you been letting chickens peck you?

Of course YOU think it’s cool, Calvin.

His Mom should get Calvin to the Doctor and at least have him checked out. Probably just needs some Calamine lotion or something.

Chiggers

My mother “didn’t hold” with vaccines, so I’ve had them all. Except rubella, which we were vaccinated for in school. I remember the measles epidemic in my small rural town. I was 12, my sister 16. She got it first (at school), and nearly died. I was told to sleep in her bed so I’d be sure and get it.

Apparently Calvin thinks he’s metamorphosing into a tiger.

When my sisters and I had chicken pox, we were covered in calamine lotion and our mom put socks on our hands so we wouldn’t scratch.

Get out the Sharpie and play ’Dot-to-Dot".

He’s got the ’Rona!

Cool! No school!

Measles? Chicken Pox? He wasn’t feeling so good yesterday (in the strip).

I would think if it’s Chicken Pox, he would be sick. I know he didn’t feel well in yesterday’s strip, but he doesn’t seem to be sick in today’s strip…. I guess we’ll find out tomorrow.

a pox on him ;)

Knowing Calvin he’s going to play connect the dots.

“HEY SUZY…CHECK THIS OUT”…

COOTIES! I knew he shouldn’t have been around Susie so much.

Yup. Looks like Calvin got Chicken Pecks. No school for a few days. Woo ..wait. It’s a weekend. Phooey!

Better not be tick bites.

I’ve read this comics In the books he goes to the doctors office I’m pretty sure next comic

Mumps said the Doctor, measles said the nurse, harrumph said the lady with the alligator purse.

I had a mild reaction of an antibiotic for my lungs years ago. The doctor was a stand in for my regular and perscribed a new drug (at the time) he said take it for 7 days and if you still have symptoms go another 7 days. what he forgot to say was take a week off between the 7 day lots. i’m good about taking medicine at a set time and into the 2nd batch, every day at 7 pm i’d start itching and by 10 i’d be covered in a rash that would fade over night.

I was lucky that was the only reaction, but i’d OD’ed on the medicine.

Scabies?

I’ve had them twice. I wish that vaccine was available when I was tiny.

Whatever it is… is also going to drive your Mom crazy as well.

For sure its cooties.

I had chicken pox, ,measles, German measles, mumps, and mononucleiosis all before age 18. I’m still here in my 60’s and reading funny comics!

measles?

He thinks having chicken pox is cool

When I was his age, Measles was just one of the childhood diseases you were expected to get. Carol got them and had a really bad time of it. The doctor came and gave Karen and I shots. When it was our turn, the most annoying part of measles was not getting to go outside. A friend lost his twin brother and his hearing to measles.

Measles!

DON’T TELL MOM! Or you’ll be stuck inside for a couple of weeks.

Yep, the mandatory chicken pox plotline for media that stars kids…(And hey, it’s the 100th comment here!)

I will tell everone my email:

Or chiggers.

Uh-Oh Calvin!

A friend of mine was the youngest in his family and missed chickenpox as a kid. So he got it later as an adult. Megacorp had strict rules on when he could come back, he had to be examined by the company doctor to make sure that all poxes were scabbed over and dry.

Well spotted, Calvin!

I don’t remember chicken pox, but I got shingles during my freshman year in high school. Three months of misery and exhaustion. My kids got all the vaccines.

My Mother-in Law has hallucinations about this sort of thing.

Back in the ’40’s, area mothers would toss all us kids “a little party” just to get the ‘chicken pox siege’ over with.. Worked, edivently..Later: fun times, us kids picking each other’s ripe boogers off each other…

Looks like the barnacles of life all over my body from being a sun worshiper when I grew up. Now paying for it.

Poor Calvin is doomed to pay out about $380 for the two new shingles shots. This is what anti vaxxers will to their poor children.

Ah, good old fashioned measles…

Another good storyline that was one of its cartoonist’s best. Nice move by Watterson to have a chicken pox story at the start of summer. It heightened the humor level.

Chicken Pox in the summer? Well, speaking from experience, that truly sucks for Calvin. Both me and my sister caught it back to back one summer when we were kids many moons ago. Which meant that a whole month of our summer went right down the drain, since we couldn’t go outside and play with our friends or anything. Still kinda ticks me off to this day….

I had chicken pox and measles at the same time. Talk about itching. Heavy layers of socks on both hands but still have the scars from it. My most vivid memory about having the mumps was my Grandmother offering me a dill pickle to see if I really had them, I tried it and

Not cool.

Ouch