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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a BUBBLE-PERSON, not a POD-PERSON. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | + | In the 2020 Coronavirus situation, various degrees of household self-isolation were often asked of people - according to their location - once it became understood that there was a virus spreading through contact/proximity vectors. | |
− | As the initial surge of cases | + | As the initial surge of cases was dampened down, in places where such drastic restrictions had been implemented and seemingly had prevented ever higher infection rates, the tricky decision on 'opening the lockdown back up' has been by staged let-up in restrictions, such as allowing any two households (neither having signs of symptoms) to meet with each other ''and only each other'', or allowing one person in a multi-occupancy residence to invite just one other person to reassociate intimately with. Further relaxation of rules may have occured since, with the caveat that any one case of Covid-19 discovered in such a co-isolating group of people should be considered a risk factor to every other member (however the local jurisdiction deals with that). |
− | A common term for the larger social unit, not to overlap with any other expanded social unit, is a 'bubble', perhaps to imply that you can only have membership of one bounded bubble at a time (unlike an | + | A common term for the larger social unit, not to overlap with any other expanded social unit, is a 'bubble', perhaps to imply that you can only have membership of one bounded bubble at a time (unlike an Euler diagram). The term 'pod' has clearly been used elsewhere. There probably is as much variation across the world about what podding ''or'' bubbling practically means than there is between any two instances of those podded ''vs.'' those bubbled. |
Despite the semantic inconsequentialities of the difference, here Cueball clearly expresses a personal preference that he would probably not like being kept in an enforced social situation with someone who uses the other term. | Despite the semantic inconsequentialities of the difference, here Cueball clearly expresses a personal preference that he would probably not like being kept in an enforced social situation with someone who uses the other term. | ||
− | Randall | + | He (as Randall) also realises that he would have not so opined, a year ago, nor probably even understood the argument if he'd heard of it. |
Cueball was shown using a ''literal'' bubble (a {{w|hamster ball}}) in [[2331: Hamster Ball 2]], but evidently got tired of being rolled around by the neighborhood kids. | Cueball was shown using a ''literal'' bubble (a {{w|hamster ball}}) in [[2331: Hamster Ball 2]], but evidently got tired of being rolled around by the neighborhood kids. | ||
− | + | <!-- So, my theory is that 'Pod' is a term used by those in the more risky US, compared with Bubble up in Canada, which explains the titletext on at least two layers of understanding and would be a very clever joke/reference by Randall. But I have no way of easily confirming it, so if you're here to edit in a titletext explanation and know (either way) the truth of this, feel free to mention it or otherwise. --> | |
− | + | ==Transcript== | |
+ | :[Cueball is walking to the right with Megan. He has raised a clenched fist.] | ||
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:Cueball: I ''refuse'' to bubble with anyone who calls it a "pod" and not a "bubble". | :Cueball: I ''refuse'' to bubble with anyone who calls it a "pod" and not a "bubble". | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Megan]] | ||
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