2459: March 2020 - Revision history

Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */ Remove confusing reference to MacGuffin.

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‎Explanation: Remove confusing reference to MacGuffin.

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Davidy22: Reverted edits by X. K. C. D. (talk) to last revision by 172.70.126.65

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X. K. C. D. at 01:29, 4 May 2022

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X. K. C. D. at 00:32, 4 May 2022

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Jkshapiro: /* Explanation */

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 In the penultimate 2 panels, Cueball is shown getting his two doses of the vaccine, with [[Ponytail]] and [[Hairy]] administering the vaccine. Also these two panels are in March 2020, but in reality they are most likely in March 2021 and April 2021, as there are typically 3-6 weeks between first and second dose depending on the type of vaccine. In the final panel, the calendar has switched to the current month, May 2021, showing that Cueball can now resume life after getting vaccinated, and most likely having passed the two weeks after final shot mark.
-The title text refers to films, in which someone travels through time with a {{W|MacGuffin}}.  It could be based on initial production of COVID vaccine in late 2020, or a reference to films in which an earlier "original" version of a virus is necessary to produce a viable vaccine (for example, [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114746/ 12 Monkeys]). Mass rollouts of COVID vaccine ramped up significantly starting early in 2021, but vaccines were still scarce, and unavailable to most of the world.
+The title text references [[630: Time Travel]], another time-related comic. While it’s technically true that the vaccines were brought from the year 2020, it was through the ordinary “one day per day” form of time travel illustrated in this earlier comic.
 Interestingly, there are only 15 panels, so if the 'normal' months increased in sync, it would "only" be March 2021, not May 2021. This may refer to the [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7641621/ strange distortion of time during the COVID-19 pandemic]. Clearly 17 panels would have made more sense when counting months, but the point here is that time has been at a standstill the last 14 months from March 2020 to April 2021; how many panels represents those 14 month (14, 12 or 10) is not important. Using 15 panels, makes the first 3 and the last 3 stand out from the 9 in the middle, which makes sense from the flow of the comic.

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 ==Explanation==
-This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}} of the {{w|coronavirus}} {{w|SARS-CoV-2}}, which causes {{w|COVID-19}}, specifically regarding the [[:Category:COVID-19 vaccine|COVID-19 vaccine]].
+This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}, specifically regarding the [[:Category:COVID-19 vaccine|COVID-19 vaccine]].
 This comic shows 15 calendars and [[Cueball]] next to them. The first three months on the calendar are January, February and March 2020. It would be expected that the months would increase in order, but the calendar month stays at March 2020 until the final panel of the comic, where it switches to May 2021, the month this comic was released, indicating that Cueball is "stuck" in March 2020 for more than a year. The COVID-19 pandemic reached the United States in March 2020 and Cueball (probably representing  [[Randall]]) may feel that he has been unable to move on with life, or that time was at a standstill until he was fully vaccinated. It is plausible that Randall was past the two weeks after his final vaccination when this comic came out. He has made several comics centered around that of being fully vaccinated in the weeks up to this comic. Specifically  [[2450: Post Vaccine Social Scheduling]] and [[2454: Fully Vaccinated]] in April.