I don't know for sure, Shirley. I just see it as two unrelated figures that the author characterized perfectly with two simple statements, and it made me smile at our situation. Maybe confinement has made me simple minded.
My brother just called and told me a coronavirus joke. A policeman caught a burglar breaking into his own house. He exclaimed, "What are you doing, man????" The burglar said, "I'm working from home."
Don’t want to get too political but it has been brought to my attention that the word, PANDEMIC, is comprised of the word DEM surrounded by PANIC.