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Could it just be that Megan is anthrophobic? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.62.247|162.158.62.247]] 16:22, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
:She's friendly (and socially proximate) enough with Cueball. That said, I know first hand how one can be asocial in general (in the verging on mildly enochlophobic sense) and still somehow tolerate acquaintances acquired in familial or vocational settings. (I'm pretty sure it's the obvious current mass nosophobic tendency being referenced, myself. If not, it's a far more complicated joke than it needs to be.) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.222|162.158.34.222]] 19:26, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
::To misquote The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, no, that's just the normal paranoia we all have- a couple of million years of strangers killing everybody in the tribe, leaves the survivors with a deep set instinct identifying and running away from .... strangers [[User:Seeberboringert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 21:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)


This is an instructive video [https://youtu.be/WinPcASr8xw Why the US already practiced social distancing before coronavirus] [[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 21:16, 25 March 2020 (UTC)



"Revise" seems to be British for "study." So if u 4got to revise /study, and show up in class with without a pencil and naked just tell the people that u r dreaming and as soon as the dream gets interesting you will wake up, because your dreams are boring. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.236|108.162.216.236]] 21:50, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
:I think you'll find the word in the comment is "REALIZE"[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 21:53, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
:: I'm sure I won't. Qwotegeneral "forgotten to revise for the exam"endqwote is from the explain.
Please be aware that "revise" means "edit, generally to make the text conform to a belief" to me, while to a Britisher it means what "do homework" or "study" means to me.
:Revise does not mean this in British, or as we say in the UK, Proper English.  Revise means to review/amend/take another look 
at.  [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 18:17, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
:Revise can have both meanings in Australian English, and I think the same is true for British English. "I forgot to revise for my test" means a very similar thing to "I forgot to study for my test". However, "revise" has the additional implication that you have already studied the material, you are just consolidating it more in your mind and catching all the bits that you missed [[User:ZerGreenOne|ZerGreenOne]] ([[User ZerGreenOne|talk]]) 02:45, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
::I'm British and fairly ancient and while "study" and "revise" are similar in meaning (where they overlap, i.e. aside from the respective examine/rewrite senses and other non-synonymical aspects) I would study something I did not already know but revise something I should already know and now need to make sure I haven't forgotten (probably morphed before my time from the original "review(s)", as semi-soundalike). To me, "studying for a test" is either ''very'' last minute preparation (not having attended the classes all year, now cramming from someone else's notes or textbooks) or something I'd have heard said in an imported US school-based comedy/drama. Happy Days? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.210|162.158.34.210]] 17:47, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
:These comments about "revise" make absolutely NO sense!![[Special:Contributions/162.158.214.88|162.158.214.88]] 11:23, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
:You can use the view history button on top of the page to find that where it currently says "This can be added to something such as a general "forgotten to prepare for the exam you're sitting" to build upon various[...]" it did say "revise" instead of "prepare" in an earlier revision --[[User:Lupo|Lupo]] ([[User talk:Lupo|talk]]) 11:35, 26 March 2020 (UTC)

Is it worth mentioning in the list of (non-nudity) precautions that wearing a facemask isn't actually a very good protective measure. Masks (especially everyday/ad-hoc types such as could have been seen worn by people outdoors in those in those halcyon days when anybody ''did'' still go outdoors) are practically useless in protecting the wearer from others. They'd still touch surfaces infected by non-wearers and then easily transfer the infection the next time they adjust/remove it or otherwise touch other vulnerable bits of their face. They can wash their hands before removing it, in their home 'airlock', but if the mask is breath-moistened it could still be holding the virus and retransfer onto the clean hands again.  OTOH, if someone is infected then their mask does more to safeguard others. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.202|162.158.34.202]] 17:24, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
:In my opinion, since masks aren't even mentioned in the comic, adding this would stray too far from the objective of explaining the comic. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 19:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
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 Is it worth mentioning in the list of (non-nudity) precautions that wearing a facemask isn't actually a very good protective measure. Masks (especially everyday/ad-hoc types such as could have been seen worn by people outdoors in those in those halcyon days when anybody ''did'' still go outdoors) are practically useless in protecting the wearer from others. They'd still touch surfaces infected by non-wearers and then easily transfer the infection the next time they adjust/remove it or otherwise touch other vulnerable bits of their face. They can wash their hands before removing it, in their home 'airlock', but if the mask is breath-moistened it could still be holding the virus and retransfer onto the clean hands again.  OTOH, if someone is infected then their mask does more to safeguard others. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.34.202|162.158.34.202]] 17:24, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
 :In my opinion, since masks aren't even mentioned in the comic, adding this would stray too far from the objective of explaining the comic. [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 19:31, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
-Speaking of adding things that go astray from the topic, I have a recurring nightmare that our dear author is actually as autistic as I am and coronavirus has broken his brain to the point that he cannot think of any jokes on any other topic.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 20:28, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
-: Seems to me contributors here have a worse obsession with the pandemic than Randall, since I've had no traction in pointing out that [[2278: Scientific Briefing]] isn't about COVID-19. --[[User:Pi one|Pi one]] ([[User talk:Pi one|talk]]) 22:06, 27 March 2020 (UTC)
-:: [[2283: Exa-Exabyte]] is a better example for being doubtful, as it was well into the pandemic quarantine by that time.  Your example *could* be more about Trump's reaction to the current situation than the situation itself, but it still requires the situation to make sense.
-::: The same comic could have appeared at any time and would have worked perfectly well. --[[User:Pi one|Pi one]] ([[User talk:Pi one|talk]]) 19:06, 28 March 2020 (UTC)
-::it is about 'why should I care about the future?' and is a sarcastic comment about how world leaders have reacted to covid/SARS2.
-::: It is a sarcastic comment on a general behavior whose most prominent recent example is the bungled handling of COVID-19.  It avoids restricting itself to that one case. --[[User:Pi one|Pi one]] ([[User talk:Pi one|talk]]) 13:09, 28 March 2020 (UTC)