Editing 2302: 2020 Google Trends

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| number    = 2302
| date      = May 5, 2020
| title     = 2020 Google Trends
| image     = 2020_google_trends.png
| titletext = As the 'exotic animals in homemade aprons hosting baking shows' YouTube craze reached its peak in March 2020, Andrew Cuomo announced he was replacing the Statue of Liberty with a bronze pangolin in a chef's hat.
}}

==Explanation==
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This comic is another comic in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|2019–20 coronavirus outbreak|2020 pandemic}} of the {{w|coronavirus}} {{w|SARS-CoV-2}}, which causes {{w|COVID-19}}.

Randall wants to go back in time to show a 2019 person [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2019-05-05%202020-05-04&geo=US&q=sewing%20machine,webcam,andrew%20cuomo,flour,pangolin a Google Trends graph]. The coronavirus has massively impacted everyone's lives and what they search for. This graph shows how people have been impacted, albeit in a bewildering representation. 

All of these trends are attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic.
* "Sewing machine" refers to people making their own {{w|cloth face mask}}s.
* "Webcam" refers to the massive increase in virtual meetings and video conferencing.
* "{{w|Andrew Cuomo}}" is the governor of {{w|New York (state)|New York}}, the state hit hardest by the pandemic in the United States.
* "Flour" refers to an increase in baking due to people staying at home. This is also referred to in [[2296: Sourdough Starter]].  The little lump at the end of November and December can probably be attributed to people baking for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
* A {{w|pangolin}} is a mammal found in Africa and Asia. This search term refers to the claim that the virus originated in wild animals sold in {{w|wet market}}s in {{w|Wuhan}}, China.

The title text is a possible "guess" by the 2019 person for these search terms having an increase together: a YouTube craze of exotic animals (which includes pangolins) in homemade aprons hosting baking shows which leads to a response by New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

A recent prior comic that touches on the past's possible views on the present situation was [[2280: 2010 and 2020]] where the relative costs of cryptocurrency and hygiene supplies was considered unremarkable for entirely the wrong reasons.

==Transcript==
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:[A line chart plotting the popularity of various search terms from May 2019 through April 2020: sewing machine (blue line), webcam (red), Andrew Cuomo (yellow), flour (green), and pangolin (purple).  The yellow line starts at the bottom of the chart, and rises about halfway up at the end of March 2020 before decaying to about 20 percent by the end of April.  The purple line starts at the bottom of the chart, and has a small lump in February 2020 and a slightly bigger lump in March 2020 before trending back down.  The blue line starts at about 10 percent up the chart, and then spikes up to 50 percent at the beginning of April before decaying to 40 percent at the end of April.  The red line starts at about 20 percent up the chart, has a small lump in September 2019, and then jumps up to 40 percent in March 2020 before trending back down.  The green line starts at about 30 percent up the chart, has a small lump in December 2019, and then spikes up to the top of the chart at the end of March 2020.]

:[Caption below comic:] I want to show someone from 2019 this Google Trends graph and watch them try to guess what happened in 2020.
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