2398: Vaccine Tracker

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Vaccine Tracker
*refresh* Aww, still in Kalamazoo. *refresh* Aww, still in Kalamazoo.
Title text: *refresh* Aww, still in Kalamazoo. *refresh* Aww, still in Kalamazoo.

Explanation

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Similar to 281: Online Package Tracking, Cueball is trying to "track" the status of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which was approved in the USA the week prior to the publishing of this comic, and began to be administered the day of publication.

Cueball is refreshing his state's vaccine website, hoping that it will provide updates on the status of the vaccine distribution.

The title text refers to Pfizer's vaccine plant in Michigan, and says that the vaccine has not been shipped yet.

Transcript

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[Megan walks towards Cueball. Cueball sits in front of his laptop refreshing the page.]
Megan: What are you up to?
Cueball: You know how when I have a package coming, I sit here refreshing the package tracker?
Megan: Is that the state vaccine website?
[Cueball refreshes the page]
REFRESH
Megan: You know it will be a while before you can-
[Cueball refreshes the page, cutting her off.]
REFRESH
Megan: They haven't even announced when-
[Cueball refreshes the page again, cutting her off.]
REFRESH
Megan: Are you going to sit there clicking refresh for several months?
Cueball: I am ready for the pandemic to be done.
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Discussion

🎵 A B C D E F G H I've got a cure! 🎶 162.158.74.85 02:53, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

...In Kalamazoo-zoo-zoo-zoo-zoo! 108.162.216.214 23:45, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Maybe he needs a vaccine tracker tracker 162.158.78.40 03:24, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

And if that goes missing, a vaccine tracker tracker finder? Then a—shut up.
Or a vaccine tracker tracker, but then if he loses it AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA and that transmission, at 05:52, 15 December 2020 (UTC) was the last we ever heard from Sonata. bubblegum-talk|contribs

And this on a day when I was mindlessly updating the pointless Electoral College votes just to double check that there were no faithless voters throwing the thing into more confusion. And I am not even American. Iam in priority group eight. My wife is in group nine - but might be in group eight before they get to her. The only things I know about kalamazoo are payroll and guitars - but I believe one is long superceded and the other left. Arachrah (talk) 12:29, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

Just learnt that Kalamazoo Payroll is owned by Dominion, the plot deepens. They were not corrupting the election, they were messing with the vaccine trackers. Arachrah (talk) 12:31, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

What, they are owned by Dominion? Does Tal Shiar already know that? -- Hkmaly (talk) 00:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

"*refresh* Aww, still in Kalamazoo, *refresh* Yay, 'A connection could no..' .. oh." ocæon (talk) 13:25, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

I knew my choice to live in Kalamazoo would be validated eventually. 162.158.74.31 14:49, 15 December 2020 (UTC)

I nearly put that Cueball should just get on with his attenuated life while he waits for the attenuated vaccine, but that only describes some of the possible candidates he could (eventually) be given, so isn't a brilliant pun... Also, I did computer training (Novell server administration, to be precise) at Kalamazoo, but I have no idea why they called the company that (no geographic connection, and the song lyrics I know from the Goon Show half-time version seem hardly linkable at all) and I think they went bust/changed name again not long after I 'graduated'. 162.158.155.78 21:22, 15 December 2020 (UTC)