2276: Self-Isolate

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Self-Isolate

Title text: Turns out I've been "practicing social distancing" for years without even realizing it was a thing!

Explanation

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The joke here being that Cueball is introverted and isolates himself constantly, and finds this as something to be proud of when people are warned to "self-isolate" to contain the Coronavirus.

The comic image is a link to one tweet in a thread of tweets about the coronavirus by @kakape, a science journalist according to their Twitter information, saying "Social distancing may mean staying further apart from each other physically in coming weeks. We should compensate by caring even more about each other than usually, because we are, of course, all in this together." (beginning of thread). This is a cautionary tweet telling everyone not to overreact to the virus, which could cause more harm than necessary.

Transcript

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[Cueball sits in an armchair watching television.]

Voice from television: Experts are saying people may need to "self-isolate" to combat the virus.

[A beat panel with Cueball continuing to sit in the armchair.]

[Zoomed in on Cueball continuing to sit in the armchair.]

Cueball: ... I've been practicing for this moment my whole life.

Off-panel voice: I don't think that's —

Cueball: Quick, make plans and watch how fast I cancel!

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Discussion

Where should it be documented that this image links to a tweet (that this feels like it is in response to)? 172.68.174.76 22:29, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Twitter link: https://twitter.com/kakape/status/1235319133585248259 Quote: "...Social distancing may mean staying further apart from each other physically in coming weeks..." -Kai Kupferschmidt 172.68.174.128 22:49, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

If this goes on next we should say this is a series. -- Overlord of oddities (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Not really a series if they do not have anything other than subject in common. --Kynde (talk) 09:32, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Changed the name used to the scientific name of the species. Gotta promote the real name before it's too late.108.162.246.227 04:58, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Should there be a category for diseases, and is there a better name than Category:Diseases ?? --Kynde (talk) 09:32, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Here is a list of comics I could just find with a quick search:

• 1612: Colds
• 1618: Cold Medicine
• 1896: Active Ingredients Only
• 1526: Placebo Blocker
• 2275: Coronavirus Name
• 1619: Watson Medical Algorithm
• 574: Swine Flu

There will likely be many more. So just a catchy name, but not coronavirus category... ;-) --Kynde (talk) 10:03, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Was the tweet published at exactly the same moment as this comic? Seems like Randall colluded with the Twitterer here.

   162.158.118.84 12:13, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

OMG, I am so in tune with Cueball here. This is a great case of RGOOMH "Randall Get Out Of My Head". Rtanenbaum (talk) 13:55, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

Misread it as Self-immolate which was confusing but ignoring the last panel, equally as funny. Anonymous (talk) 10:16, 5 March 2020 (UTC)

I so want to be back in a world in which "self-isolate" needs to be in scare quotes 141.101.98.38 21:08, 17 May 2021 (UTC)