Srsly, she should have gotten a flu shot. I mean you can usually get one for free some place. Cat had a cold. Lot’s of cartoon characters get colds. How is it Cat’s fault that Girl did bother to protect herself in an environment filled with such hazards. And really its not like she’s going to die from it. Right‽ (<-interrobang)

n’t

‘Illness is a metaphor’ can’t wait until someone around me gets sick to be able to say this.

maybe it was just a hairball…

Zoonotic illnesses mean we get to share the metaphor with animal society as well! I’m not sure where this places anthropomorphics like Cat — I suppose they get the worst of both societies.

Hairballs are a metaphor…

kaf-ka …. sorry.

So if illness is a metaphor for ideas that spread through a society (I think that’s that she’s getting at), what’s the flu shot, which would prevent the spread of new ideas? Conservativism?
Am I doing this right?

some illnessess have no cure. new ideas is not an illness to society (if anything THAT’S a cure), unreasoning and narrowmindedness is. of all the times a society has been “sick” its been the rsult of one side unwilling to adapt or yield to the other side. who’s right or wrong depends on whos side your on and its hard to know when you don’t need to fight anymore.

IDKRASH, how do you get an interrobang? id read about that a while ago being a proposed punctuaion mark, never saw it outside a magazine article

Body politik!

You people are fantastic. I always thought the word influenza was apropos as if you are “influenced” by those around you.

when sick I tell people point blank that they can’t have it, its mine.

Everything is understood through the body. And our intersubjectivity is sick.

NNY,

There is no reliable alt code that I can find alt+8253 works sometimes under certain gravitational inversion circumstances. I always copy paste from the Wikipedia page. ‽ This is the Calibri version it has the bang protruding through the top of the interrogative mark. I think I like it better than the Palantino Linotype version above.

Back to the discussion: sme illn(s)2 hv no knwn cure. dth cures all. sme cures r wrse thn the illns.

CT beat me to my joke.

Although I was going to describe the comic as “Kafkafesque”, which I think maybe works on more levels. Unfortunately, none of them well.

Does this mean that different societies can pass on their malfunctions to other societies?

Actually, the comic reminded me of Kafka’s “The Country Doctor.” Suprakafkaesque.

…spreading society’s malfunctions like a contagious disease?! eeek

Everything in CnG comics reminds me of Kafka…

Language is a virus.