even if we had magically cured covid i would still mask during cold & flu season it's fucking october

at some point your comic stops just being a no-COVID AU and becomes a “world which still doesn't know how respiratory illnesses work” AU

@Satsuma not all webcomics but QC is adult enough and slice of life enough that i expect people to take common-sense measures to protect each other’s health

@Lady maybe cubetown has a super strict decontamination process so everyone inside is functionally bubbled & illness free

@Satsuma like it doesn't bother me that college students in DoA never mask because college students are terrible and it isn't really a realistic webcomic but you're trying to tell me Hannelore?? is just fine walking into a stranger's apartment without a mask on??

@Lady tbf much of the western world decided to live in a “not knowing how respiratory illnesses work” AU for like, two whole decades after SARS 2002 and I would not be surprised if, in a world without covid, that state would have simply continued until the next pandemic

@Satsuma sure but is having your characters appear to be ignorant westerners really the vibe you want to give for your comic

@Lady I mean personally not but