The COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic resulted in social distancing, but what about carpools?
   
“I got pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane. I said that due to social distancing my passenger was in the car behind me” was posted on Twitter by Here’s Johnny on June 12, 2020. “I got pulled over in the carpool lane. Cop: Where’s your passenger? Me: Due to social distancing they’re in the car behind me” was posted on Reddit—Jokes on June 22, 2020.
 
   
Wikipedia: COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020 and a pandemic in March 2020.
     
Twitter
Here’s Johnny
@johnnyrwhitsett
I got pulled over for driving alone in the carpool lane. I said that due to social distancing my passenger was in the car behind me
5:11 PM · Jun 12, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/etnguyen03 June 22, 2020
I got pulled over in the carpool lane.
Cop: Where’s your passenger?
Me: Due to social distancing they’re in the car behind me.
         
Twitter
John Filipovic
@johnflipside
I got pulled over in the carpool lane.
Cop: Where’s your passenger?
Me: Due to social distancing they’re in the car behind me..
4:13 AM · Jun 23, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Twitter
JazmineSpirit
@JazmineSpirit
“Pulled over for driving in the carpool lane by myself & when the cop asked where my passenger was I told him, “Due to social distancing, he is in the car behind me.” 
#humor #funny #laugh #CoronavirusUSA
11:19 AM · Jul 16, 2020·Twitter for Android
 
Twitter
Funky D
@FunkyDL
I was pulled over by a cop earlier today,
@MoreTwitty, and he said I was violating the carpool lane rules.
I told him that due to social distancing rules, my passenger was in the car behind me.
9:49 PM · Aug 31, 2020·Twitter for iPad
 
Reddit—Jokes
Posted by u/VERBERD February 2, 2021
I got pulled over in the carpool lane today….
Cop: “Where is your passenger?”
Me: “Due to social distancing, he’s in the car right behind me.”
 
Reddit—Dadjokes
Posted by u/VERBERD April 28, 2021
I got pulled over in the carpool lane.
Cop,” Where’s your passenger?”
Me, “Due to Social Distancing, he’s in the car right behind me.”