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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | 200 million times .01% (or the remainder of germs that would be left after using the hand sanitizer; .01% is equivalent to .0001 decimal, so the simple equation is 200000000 x .0001. That equals 20 thousand germs, which is still a surprisingly large number of germs. | |
− | + | Side note - Recently scientists have shown that it only takes 20 virus particles to infect someone [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2257098/Larry-projectile-vomiting-robot-helping-British-team-learn-stop-spread-norovirus.html] (with analyzed virus: not all germs are equally effective). | |
− | "Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the | + | "Hipster CDC" is a combination of the acronym for the Centers for Disease Control and prevention: an organization dedicated to studying infectious diseases and limiting their spread, with the label hipster: a cultural group associated with a distaste for popular culture often talking about how bands, authors, etc... were better before they went "mainstream" and proclaiming that they liked a certain thing "before it was cool" |
− | + | In this case, the period when the flu epidemic was "better" is probably 1918, when a world-wide flu epidemic killed tens of millions.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu] | |
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+ | The humor (if a worldwide disaster can be said to be humorous) is in the dual use of the work "epidemic". The current mainstream news media is making a big thing of an up-surge in flu cases this season: sometimes calling it an "epidemic". The comic points out that, in reality, the worldwide flu epidemic is an on-going, multi-year thing, and the current seasonal up-surge is tiny and uninteresting in comparison to previous surges. | ||
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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:Poster: An invisible sneeze droplet can contain ''200 million'' germs! | :Poster: An invisible sneeze droplet can contain ''200 million'' germs! | ||
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:Product label: Our hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs! | :Product label: Our hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs! | ||
− | + | :Cueball (thinking): 200 000 000 × 0.01% = | |
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:Cueball: Ew. | :Cueball: Ew. | ||