Dilbert cartoon first published on Wednesday 1st July 2020

Dilbert//11400, first published six years ago on Wednesday 1st July 2020

Cooties Contact Tracing

Tags

2 weeks, contact, cooties, doctor, doctors' offices, infect, physical, tracing, women, zero

Official transcript

doctor: we need to do contact tracing to determine who else you might have infected with cooties. how may women have you had physical contact with in the past two weeks?

originally published on dilbert.com

Open source transcript

WE NEED TO DO CONTACT TRACING TO DETERMINE WHO ELSE YOU MIGHT HAVE INFECTED WITH COOTIES.

HOW MANY WOMEN HAVE YOU HAD PHYSICAL CONTACT WITH IN THE PAST TWO WEEKS?

ID RATHER NOT SAY.

I'LL PUT YOU DOWN FOR ZERO.

collated from github.com/jvarn/dilbert-archive

AI Analysis

Title: "The Cootie Conundrum"

Summary:

The comic strip, originally published in 2020, features Dilbert, a bespectacled man with a bald head and a red shirt, sitting at a desk. He is engaged in a conversation with his boss, who is wearing a white lab coat and a mask.

Panel 1:

• Dilbert's boss asks him to contact trace to determine if he has been infected with cooties.
• Dilbert responds that he needs to do this to determine who else he might have infected with cooties.

Panel 2:

• The boss asks how many women he has had physical contact with in the past two weeks.
• Dilbert responds that he would rather not say.

Panel 3:

• The boss tells Dilbert that he will put him down for zero.
• Dilbert looks dejected, holding a piece of paper and a pen.

Humor:

The humor in this comic strip comes from the absurdity of the situation. The boss is asking Dilbert to contact trace to determine if he has been infected with cooties, which is a made-up term that sounds like a disease but is actually just a playful way of saying "germs." The boss's request for Dilbert to disclose the number of women he has had physical contact with is also humorous, as it implies that Dilbert is somehow responsible for spreading cooties to women. The punchline, where the boss tells Dilbert that he will put him down for zero, is a clever play on words that adds to the comedic effect. Overall, the comic strip uses wordplay and absurdity to create a humorous scenario that pokes fun at the idea of contact tracing and the importance of personal hygiene.

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