Gary Varvel for December 16, 2021

(pfft). I do kind of like the artwork. Not that it’s actually art. Or that it works…

“We WANT them infected!”, right Varvel?

Let him go and take his filthy rat-kisser germs with him.

Biden is only making mandates because people are being too stupid, ignorant and misanthropic to get the life-saving free vaccine; choosing instead to waste their money and risk their health with fake “cures” and “treatments”.

If ya’ll don’t like vaccine mandates, then maybe you shouldn’t have made them necessary and essential.

Shakespeare would be crying in his grave

No great loss Juliet. Find a real man with the integrity and intelligence to mask up.

You can’t cure stupid !!!

^^ One Note Simpleton shows why he’s ’special", while Varvel continues to dabble in #JustPayneStupid.

Yeah, well 71% of democrats don’t want to date today’s republicans. The republican fantasy world and echo chamber is more than they are willing to deal with.

https://www.axios.com/poll-political-polarization-students-a31e9888-9987-4715-9a2e-b5c448ed3e5a.html

Well, Mr. Varvel, how often do you dine out in a restaurant or ride public transportation without a mask?

And by the way… are you or are you not vaccinated?

Wow, Gary Varvel has found a way to rewrite the ending so they both live! Congratulations GV.

Excellent, Mr. Vavel, excellent!

I wouldn’t wish covid on anyone, but Gary please stop!

Such whining over something so small. Not a great sacrifice.

Another pro-death conservative. I don’t like ‘em. But Covid does.

Yes, you show them that you are not in need of a silly vaccination. Son called other night because a friend of his had covid, hospitalized and then had a massive stroke. No vaccination because he didn’t believe in it. Obit said he would do everything for his wife and 2 little girls. No, he didn’t and now they are widowed and fatherless. 38 years old and he sure showed how he wasn’t going to give in to the vaccinations and rules!

Canst NOTRomeo was wearing a mask when he first saw Juliet. They were having a secret relationship and wouldn’t be going out anyway.In this scenario, they both would have lived to see their fourteenth birthdays. Or, at least Juliet. Romeo is engaged in adolescent rebellion and risk taking behavior.

Romeo…hasten thine exit, yon Karen is no Juliet! :P

Varvel and his cadre will never understand you can’t have rights without responsibility.

Didn’t Romeo and Juliet die in the end of their story?

Both appear to be taking due precautions, based in sober science, so as not to be part of the pandemic problem. Masks are good. So is social distancing. Think of it as a dance we are taught by the lord of the dance, whether you call him Apollo (literally “Destroyer,” and god of plague as well as of the healing, prophetic, and fine arts) or Shiva (Nataraja).Shakespeare’s drama, by contrast, requires and features a decidedly more foolish pair than these. Teen romances that end in double suicide are not good things in real life, as masks and social distancing are during a pandemic. But thy can and do make a good play, written to be performed between waves of contagion.

Good job Gary.

Encourage mindless contrariness to prolong the misery.

At least he’s distancing.

Obviously, Varvie has never read, nor seen a production of Romeo and Juliet.

Both of the kids died.

So, maybe, if Romeo walks away, Juliet lives, finds someone who isn’t a hormone-driven doofus, and has a happy family.

fusilier

James 2:24

Good for you, Juliet – you don’t need to saddle yourself with a MORON.

AHem…it would be “Thou canst not travel nor dine with me….” Now, if you wished to emulate Braveheart’s accent, you could try “…cannae trrrrravel norrrr sup …” But it’s all a bunch of hooey much like your condemnation of mask mandates.

Yep, I’d walk away too if my date start espousing a bunch of alt-right BS.

Is that not the truth!

Varvel must think that 800,000+ deaths are something to joke about!

The people who refuse to mask and refuse to vaccinate are the ones causing current conditions. Hopefully, the ravages of Omicron will largely be limited to those people as well, like Delta.

Personally, I’m waiting for “Omega” to come along and finish the job so the rest of us who actually understand science can get on with our lives.

Instead of a story of woe, they live happily ever after.

Haha! Great strip, Gary. Let’s Go, Brandon!

“Romeo must die”

Love it!!!!!!! Right on cue!!!!!!

Au reservoir, Romeo (as they don’t say in France).

Methinks this is much ado about nothing

Hahaha, great one Gary! C’mon guys, I don’t care on what side of the issue you’re on, you have to admit this is a funny ‘toon and the artwork is excellent. Lighten up a little people.

Think back to when Romeo and Juliet was written. It was an age of mass plague epidemics, and no one understood how diseases were spread. Some of those ignorant folks still seem to be around, including in Congress and state legislatures.

At least she will be alive to go to his funeral.

Juliet asked Romeo to do far more than just wear a mask…Though he does that as well at the Capulet’s party…but, what can I say, Varvel is a traitorous idiot philistine. Like all Republicans.

She is probably infertile from taking the vaxx anyway. Ironically, their separation will save both their lives in the story.