covid

A panicked woman rushes up to her elderly father, who is seated calmly wearing glasses. She shouts that the missiles are inbound and they have four minutes to nuclear armageddon. Rather than panic, he just sighs that things are about to get really boring and asks if they have any boardgames. A caption beneath reads: 'Living through covid-19 left us unprepared for any other type of calamity.' In the votey (bonus panel), the same glum old man, drawn close-up, frets in a speech bubble: 'Boy, I hope there's enough toilet paper to last the whole four minutes.' The joke is that the pandemic conditioned him to treat any disaster as merely a boredom-and-supply-hoarding problem rather than a genuine emergency.