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| title = Every Data Table | | title = Every Data Table | ||
| image = every data table.png | | image = every data table.png | ||
− | | titletext = I'm hoping 2022 is relatively normal because I don't know what symbol comes after the asterisk and the dagger. | + | | titletext = "I'm hoping 2022 is relatively normal because I don't know what symbol comes after the asterisk and the dagger." |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is another entry in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}. | + | {{incomplete|Created by a TRIPLE DAGGER. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | This comic is another entry in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic|2020-21 pandemic}} of the {{w|SARS-CoV-2}} virus, which causes {{w|COVID-19}}. | ||
− | + | The COVID pandemic has had a large impact on the entire world and one way this can be seen is through strange stats resulting from the effects of the pandemic. Various statistics such as employment statistics, spending power, holiday miles, pet ownerships, births (or at least conceptions) and — naturally — deaths may have been either grossly suppressed/increased for the majority of 2020, and for 2021 may have hardly recovered, partially recovered, renormalised, bounced back with a vengeance or be over-compensated for in the effort to catch up. | |
− | + | It is hard to know what 2022 might be like. Nothing (at the time of this comic being published) is exactly back to normal and proper recovery or the resulting compensatory readjustment may not have concluded in time for 2022 to reflect the trends expected based upon pre-2020 figures, and the additional further years that future statistics will record. | |
− | + | As an example, the cycles of Summer and Winter Olympics/Paralympics has been disrupted due to the 2020 Summer Olympics being postponed to 2021, thus causing the next Winter Olympics to be only half a year away (in early 2022) and the next Summer Olympics/Paralympics to be 3 years away (in 2024). This has not occurred since the 1990s (when both of the Winter Games were shifted away from the Summer Games' years), or the 1940s (the last major interruption in the main Summer Olympic cycle). | |
− | + | Sometimes punctuation such as an asterisk (*) or a dagger (†, also called an obelus or obelisk) is used to denote an unusual entry in a table to be explained in a footnote with a matching symbol. Common symbols that are used if the first two are taken include multiple symbols (such as †† or ***), or a series of further symbols such as a double dagger (‡), the section symbol/silcrow (§), the parallel/double-pipe (‖) and the paragraph symbol/pilcrow (¶). Alternately you can start and continue with superscript numbers (¹, ², ³ ...), especially when you expect to commonly need {{w|Terry Pratchett|multiple}} and/or {{w|Randall Munroe|nested}} footnotes on each page, or gather them as endnotes, a whole chapter at a time. | |
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− | + | The author, however, seems to have forgotten the potential monkey's paw nature of his wish. Relative is a relative term. It could well be that the whole pandemic thing becomes the new normal, thus removing the necessity of using symbols to delineate such years. | |
− | + | == Transcript == | |
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− | + | :2017........ (scribble) | |
− | : | + | :2018....... (scribble) |
− | + | :2019....... (scribble) | |
− | :2018....... | + | :2020*...... (scribble) |
− | :2019....... | + | :2021<span style="font-family: serif;"><sup>†</sup></span>...... (scribble) |
− | :2020*...... | + | :2022....... (scribble) |
− | :2021<span style="font-family: serif;"><sup>†</sup></span>...... | + | :2023....... (scribble) |
− | :2022....... | + | :2024....... (scribble) |
− | :2023....... | ||
− | :2024....... | ||
− | :[Caption | + | :[Caption under the panel:] |
:Every data table from now on | :Every data table from now on | ||
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[[Category:COVID-19]] | [[Category:COVID-19]] | ||
[[Category:Statistics]] | [[Category:Statistics]] | ||
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