xkcd's funny comic told from a coronavirus's point of view

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/03/31/xkcds-funny-comic-told-from.html

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Isn’t that a bacteriophage doing the narration, not corona?

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I guess bacteriophages are the everyvirus. They do look cool.

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“Luckily for us, not all of them are good at this brain thing they’re doing.”

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  1. I feel like I don’t have enough pasta now…

  2. Story idea. Demon who has lived for millennia jumping from person to person ala Fallen now freaking out because his host is in quarantine and dying.

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I really do have a LOT of pasta; even before all this chaos started…

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The title text tag is excellent:

We’re not trapped in here with the coronavirus. The coronavirus is trapped in here with us.

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I am out of pasta. :open_mouth:

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In the future, I will acquire more pasta.

Sorry.

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I lost it early at “WHO WANTS A HUUGGG” “NOOO!”

He’s always fantastic but this is the laugh I needed this year. Sigh.

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OK Rorschach

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Corona shows up in panel 5 (“One of us got good at transmission through everyday contact”).

As the strip’s title on the XKCD page makes clear, the cast are pathogens in general, not just viruses, still less just the coronavirus.

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I would have thought that bacteriophages would be our friends, killing all that nasty bacteria trying to make us sick. I suppose they are in the virus side of taxonomy.

I was hoping to do a comic about this using dandelions, but alas, i have no artistic capability and no audience.

Pastafarians rule! All hail the FSM, providing pasta for all.

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I’m snacking on his noodly appendages right now…

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I’m going to the store. Anyone need pasta?

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You can easily find smooth penne - nobody likes 'em.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERfOsJlW4AMPQsc?format=jpg

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For me, pasta is just too bulky. I do have 12 kilos of rice though.

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Yeah, that’s why you always do the full course of biotics, even if they seem really sick. Stopping early just breeds biotic-resistant humans.

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