Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 21, 2022

Because staying inside the house will protect you from nuclear war.

No, Rat—those are a speech balloon, a heart, and other symbols.

Will cave tours suddenly become more popular?

THE LOCUST INVASION IS HERE!! RUNNNNNN!!

It is definitely a tough time…

At first, I thought this was a rerun…

Remember Chamberlin, piece in our time, and what that go us.

After initial fears in March 2020 of a Randall Flagg “Stand” level death toll, this “pandemic” hasn’t come close to the danger of the 1919 version. War, plague, famine, and murder have always been with us. The mainstream media has been crying wolf for 2 years, it’s time to stop allowing them to tell us that the sky is falling. Here in Folsom, California, we stopped following quarantine strictures in August 2020 or so, and we haven’t all dropped dead. History shows that societies get through plagues faster by disrupting normalcy as little as possible, but we have a bunch of paranoid scaremongers telling us what to do.

No, they’re murder hornets. They just look like locusts.

I am waiting for the frogs to rain down.

No, they are not locusts, those are murder HORNETS ! >dun dun dun<

And by the way, nobody responsible is saying that the pandemic is ending.

BA.2

Nope, locusts come after lices, flies, livestock pestilence, boils and hail

Worse than locusts… tourists!

Krakatoa was a volcano that affected world wide weather for a year, a nuclear war would be worse due to radiation and fallout. Maybe I will take Pig’s advice. No, One day at a time!

Every now and then we are being reminded that life is dangerous. Sometimes nature is overdoing it though .

War brings nothing but misery and it destroys everything you once held dear. Russia needs to stop harassing Ukraine at once!

Pastis chose the date for this strip perfectly. This is the first day that we in Ontario, Canada, can leave our masks at home. While shopping yesterday, I asked several cashiers if their store was going to follow Monday’s no-mask recommendation. I got all yesses and smiles that I could see through the mask.

The lucky among us will die immediately.

No, they’re murder hornets.

August 9, 1945 to now is a long time…

In the immortal words of Douglas Adams, Don’t Panic!

We’re all going to die. Eventually. Of something.

When I go, I want to go peacefully and quietly in my sleep like Grandpa. Not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car.

If Russia hadn’t invaded the Ukraine, would we still care about COVID?

Low cussing.

2020: “I’ll be the worst year EVAR!”

2021: “Here, hold my beer!”

2022: “Pfft! Amateurs!”

Meh. If you’ve seen one nuclear war, you’ve seen them all.

I remember back in the 60’s that one of the Jesus freaks, that’s what they we called them back then, had a step van, and one of the signs on the van read, " Read your Bible, it will scare the hell out of you". Maybe we need to read our Bibles?

locusts, by the way, are kosher

hide in the bath tub… oh wait

And the pandemic is not ending, merely taking a breather. There’s a new strain in Europe.

“On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.” Tyler Durden (Chuck Palahniuk)

Just wait until the war in Ukraine ends. Something new will come up and destroy us all.

We got locusts last year (at least on the East Coast). This year we’re due for rains of spiders.

Sadly, these are our times…

Probably….

Rat is a neverending pessimist.

It’s always something…foreign pestilence, crazy loon Russian troll, etc

BTW…the pandemic has slowed has but not ended….

I saw a news story during lockdown of a man who had been on a religious retreat in the mountains without access to news. He came down to absolutely no one being around. When he finally found someone to tell him about the Pandemic, he seriously considered turning around and going back to the isolated cabin he’d been in for months.

“So long mom! I’m off to drop the Bomb.”

It is always something. And right after they post the doom and gloom which is or is not as bad as they say, the follow it with some entertainment oddness or some obscene sport star news.

I have been wondering if anyone who was able to invest the million+ it cost to have a living spot in what I think was a former deep underground missile silo, somewhere in Kansas(?) and reconstructed in the event of various apocalypses (apocalypsi?) showed up at the gate recently.

no next is these from the book of Revelation: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-b8b8f80522aab45e34d40d84a2dec04c

Not locusts. Tiny drones.

I hate to break it the younger generations, but it’s been like this one way or another for decades

I was wondering when we’d finally get through all the strips Pastis had submitted before the start of the Russian-Ukranian War and finally reach the war.

The locusts are just getting ready. They’re scheduled for next week.

If it’s not one thing, it’s another.

You got to hand it to the Russians: They ended the unmentionable virus just like that!

General Rule of “Life Can Be Horrible”: things never get better. They only and always get worse.

Cheers, Pig….

This shouldn’t be funny, but I kept laughing.

Probably.

Some of us don’t let things like that stop us from going out, living our lives, and being happy. Mmm, I hear locusts can be quite tasty when roasted.

Dang it, Stephan!

Always something goes on in the world… When the Russia Ukraine war is finished, then a new variant of COVID will come out…