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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete|Created by a FERRIS WHEEL OPERATOR. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
− | This is yet another comic part of the [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] on the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic}}. | + | This is yet another comic part of the [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] on the {{w|COVID-19 pandemic|2020-21 pandemic}} caused by the {{w|COVID-19|coronavirus disease 2019}} (COVID-19). |
This comic is a chart that orders things based on the level of alarm that would occur if it were revealed that someone had not done a given thing since early 2020. Many of the items, but not all, are linked to new constraints due to the pandemic. | This comic is a chart that orders things based on the level of alarm that would occur if it were revealed that someone had not done a given thing since early 2020. Many of the items, but not all, are linked to new constraints due to the pandemic. | ||
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;Eaten a vegetable | ;Eaten a vegetable | ||
− | Since vegetables are essential to a healthy diet, not eating a single vegetable in a whole year is not recommended.{{citation needed}} Anxiety due to the pandemic | + | Since vegetables are essential to a healthy diet, not eating a single vegetable in a whole year is not recommended.{{citation needed}} Anxiety due to the pandemic, disruption of social relations, may have caused people to consume more junk food than usual. |
;Opened the fridge | ;Opened the fridge | ||
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;Seen another person | ;Seen another person | ||
− | Despite the restrictions, most people will have seen another person during the pandemic | + | Despite the restrictions, most people will have seen another person during the pandemic. |
;Seen a ghost | ;Seen a ghost | ||
− | The fact that the speaker apparently has seen a ghost, both now and presumably before early 2020 (else they would simply say it was the 'first time' they saw a ghost) is unusual. | + | The fact that the speaker apparently has seen a ghost, both now and presumably before early 2020 (else they would simply say it was the 'first time' they saw a ghost) is unusual. |
;Served as a decoy | ;Served as a decoy | ||
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;Checked the news | ;Checked the news | ||
− | If someone has not checked the news since early 2020, they will likely be in for a shock upon checking. Noting that this could possibly (if increasingly absurdly) still apply to someone like [[Ponytail]] (as portrayed in strip [[2396: | + | If someone has not checked the news since early 2020, they will likely be in for a shock upon checking. Noting that this could possibly (if increasingly absurdly) still apply to someone like [[Ponytail]] (as portrayed in strip #[[2396:_Wonder_Woman_1984|2396]]). |
;Checked on the customers in the {{w|escape room}} | ;Checked on the customers in the {{w|escape room}} | ||
− | The implication is that the customers in question have been trapped in the escape room since early 2020. Most escape rooms are not equipped to support a person for that length of time, so unless the customers actually escaped, they would likely not have survived. | + | The implication is that the customers in question have been trapped in the escape room since early 2020. Most escape rooms are not equipped to support a person for that length of time, so unless the customers actually escaped, they would likely not have survived. |
;Contracted a novel bat virus | ;Contracted a novel bat virus | ||
− | As a 'novel bat virus' is what kicked off the whole pandemic, contracting another one may send the whole world into a new pandemic | + | As a 'novel bat virus' is what kicked off the whole pandemic, contracting another one may send the whole world into a new pandemic. |
;Gotten the Ferris wheel operator's attention (title text) | ;Gotten the Ferris wheel operator's attention (title text) | ||
− | It seems that the speaker has been stuck in a {{w|Ferris wheel}} for a year. It is unclear how they may have survived | + | It seems that the speaker has been stuck in a {{w|Ferris wheel}} for a year. It is unclear how they may have survived. |
Alternately, it would be perfectly normal that the speaker has not been at an amusement park with a working Ferris wheel since early 2020 - but it would be unusual to focus on interacting with the operator versus enjoying the attraction. | Alternately, it would be perfectly normal that the speaker has not been at an amusement park with a working Ferris wheel since early 2020 - but it would be unusual to focus on interacting with the operator versus enjoying the attraction. | ||
− | Several [https://ask.metafilter.com/78414/The-Rotating-Prison-in-the-Mountain | + | Several science fiction stories [[https://ask.metafilter.com/78414/The-Rotating-Prison-in-the-Mountain Citation: This discussion]] include wheel-like prisons where people stay for years, but generally they are underground and horizontal rather than in the air and vertical like Ferris wheels are. |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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: ◀ checked on the customers in the escape room | : ◀ checked on the customers in the escape room | ||
: ◀ contracted a novel bat virus | : ◀ contracted a novel bat virus | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |