At President Donald Trump’s urging, states began relaxing restrictions on businesses and individuals imposed during the coronavirus pandemic. The federal Centers for Disease Control released a brief set of “decision tools” to help them do so safely, but states and communities were largely on their own for the nitty-gritty decisions.
Editorial cartoonists captured the breadth of opinion on reopening — from too fast (Walt Handelsman) to smotheringly slow (A.F. Branco), with a dash of worry about trampled civil liberties in between (Scott Stantis).
Cartoonists are obsessed with getting a haircut. (And who isn’t after two months at home?) Newark Star-Ledger cartoonist Drew Sheneman sees the risk of getting up close and personal with a hairstylist as a date with the Grim Reaper’s scythe. Joey Weatherford puts Medusa in the chair. And Handelsman’s cartoon kids can’t tell one parent from the other.
Other topics in the news, and thus in the cartoons, include Trump’s opaque references to “Obamagate" and the unmasking of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s name in U.S. intelligence intercepts; dimming prospects for another federal coronavirus relief bill anytime soon; Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s sharp questioning of infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci; surveillance of employees working at home; arrests in the February killing of an unarmed black man jogging through a predominantly white neighborhood in Georgia; Michael Jordan for president; and coronavirus fatigue.
Cartoons were drawn by Bill Bramhall, Dan Wasserman, Dana Summers, Drew Sheneman, Scott Stantis, Walt Handelsman, David Horsey, Phil Hands, Joel Pett and Joey Weatherford of Tribune Content Agency; and A.F. Branco, Mike Luckovich and Michael Ramirez of Creators Syndicate.
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