Trump was not an anti-vaxxer per se but he did encourage them and pretty much encouraged every angry moron to ignore common sense and facts and shout about it loudly and publicly to make themselves feel special. So that covers the entire anti-vax crowd.
IIRC, it’s six weeks for most daily strips, and eight for the Sundays. Garry Trudeau was able to negotiate a slightly shorter lead time so he could stay more topical, but that’s very rare. And six weeks was a very long time, in terms of developments in the pandemic.
One could argue that Adams, who is quite familiar with the lead time, was extrapolating as best he could where the vaccine rollout would be, six weeks after he wrote that strip, and guessed that that would be about when folks like the PHB would be eligible. Any such prediction would of course be unreliable, but it’s at least plausible that he could have guessed right, or at least approximately so.
Yep. My second jab was April 21 off last year.
As a retired pharmacist, I’m actually enjoying this series of strips. I’m also surprised that they aren’t testing these miracle drugs on Elbonians, although maybe they haven’t gotten that far yet.
BTW, I was off work the day Vioxx was withdrawn, and we had NO prior warning. My computer was being repaired, and I saw it on Yahoo News at the library.
The strip hasn’t been the same since Dilbert abandoned his striped, U-shaped necktie.
I got my first Feb 18, 2021.
Dilbert hasn’t been interesting for decades, but everything that company does kills customers, so I’m not sure this is even an anti-drug company thing.
That’s my memory as well. Although 70 at the time I didn’t get my first jab until March thanks to the scarcity of appointments as alluded to in muldoonthief’s post above yours although I started trying in mid-January.
Here in Illinois, I found the difference between early April of 2021, and the end of that month, to be astonishing.
My wife and I are both in our 50s, and have pre-existing conditions, but we weren’t in the very-high-risk categories. I spent hours trying to book appointments for our first shots early in April, with no success. We were able to get appointments in Springfield (the state capital, and a three-hour drive away); as it had been so difficult to get the shots locally, we made a day trip down there for our first shots, and made appointments to return for our second shots.
While that facility in Springfield (at the state fairgrounds) was reasonably busy, it was by no means full, and we didn’t feel like we were “stealing” the appointments from locals.
Four weeks later, at the end of April, when the day for our second shot was coming up, I looked into whether we could avoid the six-hour round trip to Springfield, and was able to, fairly easily, get us booked for our second shots at a mass vaccination site, ten minutes from our house.
A week or two after that, and the Cook County Department of Health announced that appointments were available for everyone, because the initial demand for the highest-risk groups was done.
In one episode of the Odd Couple, Oscar is filling out an application for computer dating. Felix chides him for his response to the question “Do you believe in pre-marital sex”. Oscar had marked Yes, No, and Sometimes.
Trump does this on pretty much any issue except guns, abortion law, and taxes. Back before ‘alternative facts’, this was called’flip-flopping’.
Let’s not forget that back in the day…‘Anti-vax’ meant being skeptical of kids vaccines and trying to link them to autism and other conspiracy stuff. A number of high-profile liberals were linked to that (And im sure right-wing as well)
I’ve liked the Dilbert strip for a long time, and I think it’s still occasionally pretty good (as in the recent one below, for instance – the last panel is comic perfection!). It’s been evident for a long time that Scott Adams is an eccentric nutcase, and also that some of his best cartoons are not original but come from real-life situations submitted by readers, but for me at least that doesn’t detract from the fact that some of them are pretty funny. My first clue that Adams was a nut came many years ago when I read his first book. Many of his serious ideas on how businesses should be run were just flat-out stupid.
