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| Jeez, why is Randall so afraid to say "coronavirus"? If I didn't read the last line I would have thought this was about pregnancy tests! I've never seen a covid test before...- [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.113|172.70.178.113]] 09:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC) | | Jeez, why is Randall so afraid to say "coronavirus"? If I didn't read the last line I would have thought this was about pregnancy tests! I've never seen a covid test before...- [[Special:Contributions/172.70.178.113|172.70.178.113]] 09:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC) |
− | :a) Subtle humour that creeps up on you? (N.B., the following points suggest not, but YMMV.)
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− | :b) Didn't think it necessary. I've not seen a Covid LFT, either, but it seemed obvious from topicality, and if the last line would have been riffing on pregnancy I'd have been even more surprised...
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− | :b).i.: Actually, if it had been a pregnancy-tester joke, I'd expect it to be a sort of "conception reveal party" moment, and maybe congratulating Randall and his partner!
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− | :c) He actually does say Covid (more than he ever did in the infection-to-stop-infection comic!) and I don't think he's scared of saying it, but perhaps at ''some'' level (though he's probably failing to do this) he's just not wanting to BE IN THE FACE of some people who can't handle it.
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− | :c).i.: Though not making comics even vaguely related to viruses ''or'' testing would be the solution to that. Which is clearly not his chosen path as he still is pushing what ''some'' (not me!) would call a blue-pill agenda.
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− | :...it's all eye-of-the-beholder. I've had other comics bewilder me (or at least I wandered off down the wrong garden-path at first), and looks like that happened to you. Congratulations, you're (presumably) only human! [[Special:Contributions/162.158.159.11|162.158.159.11]] 10:45, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | :: Apart from the title text, this comic actually could apply equally to pregnancy tests (up until now the most commonly available type of lateral flow test kit) or any other single-reaction lateral flow test kit. I presume CoVID rapid antigen test kits are in the news where Randall is, because of the announcement that they would soon be made available free of charge in the US, on the day the comic was published (Citation needed). In the future when they fall out of circulation or other types of tests become more common, the joke will still stand. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.15|108.162.249.15]] 12:35, 23 December 2021 (UTC) edit: and I missed the fact that the last panel actually has the word COVID. Ahh well. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.182|108.162.250.182]] 12:49, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | :::First of all so many comics have been about covid-19 (this was no. 87 and the second this week, hope we get a corona free x-mas comic tomorrow!). Secondly the word Covid is used in the main comic, not just the title text, just as the original poster says: "Click to expand COVID menu". So no issue for Randall to mention Corona/covid. He just did not mention it specifically in the previous. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 18:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | : Yes the image is more familiar from pregnancy tests, but the repeated title says "Rapid Test". Around here that's what we call the at-home Covid tests that a LOT of people are learning to use right now before their holiday travel. It's in contrast with PCR tests, which take hours to days and require special laboratory equipment. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.110.171|172.70.110.171]] 22:43, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | ==Missing test results==
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− | Am I the only one, who is missing at least two more test results? Like:
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− | * ≠ not positive
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− | * ± positive and negative
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− | --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.148|162.158.91.148]] 11:06, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | I concur, maybe expand to
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− | * Constructive/Deconstructive interference from the approximately positive results
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− | * Taking a rapid test 14 hours after submission of a college module provides a digital read out of your grade
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− | * {{w|White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)}} plays when you move within 2 metres of a covid-infected individual
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− | * {{w|Blurred Lines}} plays when an antivaxxer gets a vaccine [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 21:40, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | The third panel refers to the mathematical symbol for "approximately" (≈). The long-winded explanation in the table misses the point.{{unsigned|172.68.234.233}}
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− | :The third panel is ''literally'' written up (first column) as "2 wavy lines resembling the approximately equal sign" (with wikilink). The long-windedness that follows in the third column is over-analysing, maybe, but the 'core' point isn't missed at all. You are of course free to edit, so long as you're aware that so are others.
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− | :PS, it is polite to sign Talk-page additions (with the four tildes, or two dashes and four tildes if clicking the right button above)) when adding a comment. HTH, HAND. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.162.147|172.70.162.147]] 15:52, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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