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X. K. C. D. at 01:00, 4 May 2022

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 *This is a rare Thursday comic, published on Thursday, April 30.
 **It is unclear whether [[Randall]] forgot to release this on the regular Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule or if there were other reasons for the delay.
-**A Friday comic was released normally, within 24 hours, thus it is likely just a problem with the release or problem with getting it finished on time.
+***A Friday comic was released normally, within 24 hours, thus it is likely just a problem with the release or problem with getting it finished on time.
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 ==Explanation==
-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}}.
+This comic is another comic in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}.
 [[Megan]] complains that the sudden rise in awareness of COVID-19 has led to many people that act as if they are {{w|epidemiologist}}s; i.e. experts on the issue of global policy and the virus's traits, while in fact most are just repeating what they have heard from various news outlets, which [https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/coronavirus-coverage-where-the-media-have-gone-wrong/ do not always get everything right]. She compares the situation to people who are suddenly expert on mountain climbing safety every time a mountaineering disaster hits the news - and uses an analogy of Joseph Beuys' "Everyone is an artist" for saying that.

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 [[Megan]] complains that the sudden rise in awareness of COVID-19 has led to many people that act as if they are {{w|epidemiologist}}s; i.e. experts on the issue of global policy and the virus's traits, while in fact most are just repeating what they have heard from various news outlets, which [https://thebulletin.org/2020/03/coronavirus-coverage-where-the-media-have-gone-wrong/ do not always get everything right]. She compares the situation to people who are suddenly expert on mountain climbing safety every time a mountaineering disaster hits the news - and uses an analogy of Joseph Beuys' "Everyone is an artist" for saying that.
-[[Cueball]] notes that her analogy fails to account that everyone is directly affected by the virus, meaning that everyone should be educating themselves on the topic as much as possible. Just like if everyone was stranded in mountains all at once, lots of people would try to become experts as fast as possible.
+[[Cueball]] notes that her analogy fails to account that everyone is directly affected by the virus, meaning that everyone should be educating themselves on the topic as much as possible, similar to how if everyone was stranded in mountains all at once, lots of people would try to become experts as fast as possible.
 Megan acknowledges this fact, but continues the mountaineer analogy to the virus saying that she wishes those that now think they are experts would at least not go out on TV saying they found out that everyone would come down fast if they just curl up in to balls and roll down because their "research on gravity" says they will get to the bottom quickly, which Cueball agrees.

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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}}.		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}}.

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 [[Cueball]] notes that her analogy fails to account that everyone is directly affected by the virus, meaning that everyone should be educating themselves on the topic as much as possible. Just like if everyone was stranded in mountains all at once, lots of people would try to become experts as fast as possible.
-Megan acknowledges this fact. But then she continues to use the mountaineer analogy to the virus, saying that she would still wish those that now think they are experts would not go out on TV saying they found out that everyone would come down fast if they just curl up in to balls and roll down. Because their "research on gravity" says they will get to the bottom quickly.
+Megan acknowledges this fact, but continues the mountaineer analogy to the virus saying that she wishes those that now think they are experts would at least not go out on TV saying they found out that everyone would come down fast if they just curl up in to balls and roll down because their "research on gravity" says they will get to the bottom quickly, which Cueball agrees.
 In corona pandemic terms, this is probably a reference to those that claim we need to get out of lockdown as fast as possible, to save the economy (the closure of which has its own costs, potentially including losses of life through e.g. depression, homelessness, displacement, and so on), and maybe to induce {{w|herd immunity}} (SARS-CoV-2 does not mutate as rapidly as e.g. the influenza family of viruses, so it is hoped that individuals who are infected and survive will develop long-term immunity, and that a single vaccine will be very broadly effective, but this is still not known for certain as of this writing). But those are not considering all the lives at stake, which is what frustrates Megan. Who should decide that those with weak immune systems should be placed in such grave risk, for the better of the economy? Maybe not the every-man who has read something on the internet... which could be wrong, see [[386: Duty Calls]].