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| title = Throat and Nasal Passages | | title = Throat and Nasal Passages | ||
| image = throat_and_nasal_passages.png | | image = throat_and_nasal_passages.png | ||
− | | titletext = I always felt like what the 'you are now aware of your tongue' thing | + | | titletext = I always felt like what the 'you are now aware of your tongue' thing neeeded in order to be truly enjoyable was an element of mortal peril. |
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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}} | + | {{incomplete|Created by someone very aware of both their throat, nasal passages and now also their lounge- Title text badly mentioned - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} |
+ | This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|2019–20 coronavirus outbreak|2020 COVID-19 pandemic}}. | ||
− | In the graph a black solid line displays how much he has been thinking about | + | [[Randall]] has even before the corona pandemic complained about sore throat caused by the cold, see [[1612: Colds]], more than once just a few weeks apart, see [[1618: Cold Medicine]]. So every year during the cold/flu season, he has been forced to think about his sore throat and stuffed nasal passages. But during the last two years he has been thinking about them much more, also when he has not been ill because of the pandemic. |
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+ | In the graph a black solid line displays how much he has been thinking about this since 2000 and up until 2022. The first 20 years the graph oscillate up and down once every year, and every spike represents the cold and flu season, so autumn and winter causes the spike, spring and summer makes it drop. There is basically a spike for every year, although some years it looks a bit different. But all in all the peaks seem low. That is when compared to how much time he has thought about it since the COVID-19 pandemic broke out around March 2020. Each summer since there has been a dip, but not anywhere close to the tops of the previous years, and around New Year 2022 the graph peaks (likely due to the {{w|SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant|Omicron variant}}). | ||
The peaks in 2020 and 2021 (2022) are about 6 times higher than those the year before 2020. So if the Y-axis begins at zero, this is how much more he thinks of his throat now than during the times when he actually had a cold. | The peaks in 2020 and 2021 (2022) are about 6 times higher than those the year before 2020. So if the Y-axis begins at zero, this is how much more he thinks of his throat now than during the times when he actually had a cold. | ||
− | There seems to be no way of knowing if Randall has had | + | There seems to be no way of knowing if Randall has had covid-19, but from his comics it seems safe to assume he is fully vaccinated. But at the moment of release the Omicron variant of covid-19 seems to ignore vaccines for about 50% of those vaccinated. Although it seems those vaccinated usually gets a milder case. |
The joke is in the dotted line at the very bottom of the graph which either is just above zero, or is actually supposed to be the zero line (which would not change the above assumption about 6 times more thinking). This line reflects how much time he actually wishes to think about them, which is probably not at all. But even before corona Randall seems to have spent way too much time pondering his sore throat. | The joke is in the dotted line at the very bottom of the graph which either is just above zero, or is actually supposed to be the zero line (which would not change the above assumption about 6 times more thinking). This line reflects how much time he actually wishes to think about them, which is probably not at all. But even before corona Randall seems to have spent way too much time pondering his sore throat. | ||
− | In the title text Randall references the trick known as "You are now aware of your tongue", which is a self-fulfilling prophecy because it will make anyone hearing it involuntarily think and be aware of their tongue. | + | In the title text Randall references the trick known as "You are now aware of your tongue", which is a self-fulfilling prophecy because it will make anyone hearing it involuntarily think and be aware of their tongue and, as long as they don't try to catch the moment they stop being aware of it, won't stop being aware. A similar technique{{Actual citation needed}} can be used to make people breathe consciously, which then makes it impossible to start breathing automatically and unconsciously again, which would usually have been the case before. Randall sarcastically remarks that the tongue trick needed an element of mortal peril to be truly enjoyable, his actual opinion is probably the opposite, that it was annoying before and that it only became worse now that it contains the danger of death. |
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− | Randall sarcastically remarks that the tongue trick needed an element of mortal peril to be truly enjoyable, | ||
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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**As neither this or the previous comic [[2562: Formatting Meeting]], the last from 2021 released on New Years Eve 2021-12-31, are [[:Category:New Year|New Year comics]], this marks the first year in a long time without an official New Year comic! | **As neither this or the previous comic [[2562: Formatting Meeting]], the last from 2021 released on New Years Eve 2021-12-31, are [[:Category:New Year|New Year comics]], this marks the first year in a long time without an official New Year comic! | ||
**Last time neither of the comics around the New Year was not a New Year comic was the New Year from 2010 to 2011. | **Last time neither of the comics around the New Year was not a New Year comic was the New Year from 2010 to 2011. | ||
− | *** | + | ***So after 10 years in a row with such a comic Randall did nothing to celebrate that it became 2022. |
**The first New Year comic came out on 2007-12-31, and one more followed the year after, before two years without. | **The first New Year comic came out on 2007-12-31, and one more followed the year after, before two years without. | ||
− | *** | + | ***So this is only the third time out of 15 without such a comic since the first came out 14 years ago. |
− | *In the title text the word | + | *In the title text the word needed is spelled ''neeeded'' with three ''e''. |
− | ** It | + | **It is expected that this error will be fixed, but that did not happen immediately! |
{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
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