3960: I Said

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I Said

Made by: rambling evil kirby

Explanation

This strip pokes fun at the sizable amount of information, and by extension misinformation, about COVID-19 floating around shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic was formally declared in the early parts of March 11, 2020; by the later parts of that day in North American time zones, society as the world had known it prior to the pandemic would cease as the world began shutting down, accelerated by a major event that happened in Oklahoma City that evening. What was originally Pooky wearing a strange birthday hat in the original strip was overlaid with the logos of Facebook, Twitter, CNN, Fox News, NBC News, and BBC News (it is unknown how slighted Australian users were not seeing ABC News among the logos), all of which were dedicating heavy coverage to the pandemic in the days following its formal declaration as a pandemic.

Although this strip was clearly poking fun at coverage of COVID-19, the Square Root of Minus Garfield top dogs knew COVID-19 itself was a serious subject, and thus presumably accelerated this strip through the queue and attached an author's note including both serious and semi-serious requests for the readership to keep themselves safe.

The author writes:

yeah, COVID-19 sucks

[Guess you can add this website to this list! Stay safe, wash your hands, stay home when you can, keep your distance from other people when you can't, have some empathy for those who would lose their jobs and houses if they did the right thing, try and persuade your elderly relatives that bingo night isn't actually essential to human function and that diseases don't respectfully keep away because they're "just popping out to lend Maureen that book she wants", and, above all, submit to SRoMG. -Ed]

Original strip: 2019-06-18.

Transcript

Garfield: I wish people would quit reminding me about coronavirus
{beat panel}
Garfield {turning to face an assortment of media & social media company logos}: I said...