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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|Created by a VACCINE RESEARCH HOBBYIST - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | |
− | The comic starts with [[White Hat]] using a common conversational tactic used by vaccine skeptics, and conspiracy theorists, in order to try to persuade others, typically claiming that they did their own research. The phrase " | + | The comic starts with [[White Hat]] using a common conversational tactic used by vaccine skeptics, and other conspiracy theorists, in order to try to persuade others, typically claiming that they did their own research. The phrase "done my own research" is often taken to mean that the speaker is skeptical of the topic, and has done only cursory fact-checking, typically consulting only nonscientific sources that confirm and validate their prior beliefs. However, subverting expectations, it seems that White Hat genuinely had researched the subject deeply, consulting a large number of primary sources, and coming to a non-skeptical conclusion. In the last panel, it shows White Hat as he asks if people are trying to give them to lots of people, to which [[Cueball]] responds with understated irony. He could be humoring White Hat for fear that revealing the scale of the vaccine rollout could cause White Hat to change his mind; but it is arguably more logical that he is playing along with White Hat's own irony, since it stretches credulity that one could read "hundreds of studies" on the vaccine most of which mention the number of recipients, and yet somehow remain ignorant of the scale of the rollout. |
− | + | At the time this strip was posted, only about 42.3% of the world population had been vaccinated against COVID-19. In low income countries, however, distribution has been negligible, and the rate is below 1.9%.<ref>https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations</ref> | |
− | + | In the title text, Randall comments that he has spent way too much time researching the vaccines, commenting that there has only been confirmation of his previous beliefs. | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
− | :[White Hat | + | :[White Hat and Cueball are standing in an empty panel talking.] |
:White Hat: I've been hearing about vaccines. | :White Hat: I've been hearing about vaccines. | ||
:White Hat: But I decided to do my ''own'' research. | :White Hat: But I decided to do my ''own'' research. | ||
− | :[In a | + | :[In a frameless panel, White Hat and Cueball are standing in an empty panel talking.] |
:White Hat: So I spent months on the Internet reading hundreds of studies. | :White Hat: So I spent months on the Internet reading hundreds of studies. | ||
− | :[Close up | + | :[Close up on White Hat's head] |
:White Hat: And wow, I gotta say, | :White Hat: And wow, I gotta say, | ||
:White Hat: these vaccines are pretty good. | :White Hat: these vaccines are pretty good. | ||
:Cueball (off-panel): Oh, really. | :Cueball (off-panel): Oh, really. | ||
− | :[Zoomed back out, | + | :[Zoomed back out, same situation as before.] |
:White Hat: Yeah, seems like it'd be great if lots of people got them. | :White Hat: Yeah, seems like it'd be great if lots of people got them. | ||
:White Hat: Is anyone working on that? | :White Hat: Is anyone working on that? | ||
:Cueball: There's been some effort. | :Cueball: There's been some effort. | ||
:White Hat: Okay, cool. | :White Hat: Okay, cool. | ||
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} | ||
+ | [[Category:COVID-19_vaccine]] | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | [[Category:Comics featuring White Hat]] | ||
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