[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Laurence Horn]

> On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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> Regardless, the more apt translation is "The disease, not the beer."
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> JL

Apparently consumers are still able to distinguish the two.  Contrary to some reports, sales of Corona beer are up 5%, not sharply down, since the outbreak and naming of the eponymous virus, according to both snopes.com and factcheck.com, although some consumers have expressed a reluctance to order it in public.  (The opportunities for ordering anything in public are themselves on the decline, of course.)

So reports of a steep sales downturn for Corona are as urban legendary as the claims of problems for the Chevy Nova in Mexico and Central America.

--LH (who would order Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo IPA aboard a submarine)

P.S.  Speaking of urban legends, some of you will recall the Blackout Baby Boom hoaxes of the 1960s and 1970s (cf. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/). I wonder if nine months from now (plus or minus) there will be a boom or bust in the maternity wards—I could see arguments both ways. 


 
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> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:56 AM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> For us plebeians, Gtrans says
>> Chronic disease, it is not beer,
>> If you try to stay! "(Said Julius Caesar)
>> Dung, man! What are you trying to say? (said Varrhenius  Cerevesarius)
>> Well said Ionatana!
>> Speculative Grammar written by Marcus Mandelensis
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>> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:29 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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>>> "Quid, me anxius sum?"  - Alfr. E. Neumannus
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>>> JL
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>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:17 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>> "Si conamini, prohibebo!" (ait Julius Caesar)
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>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:45 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Stercus, vir! Quid conaris loqui? (ait Varrhenius Cerevesarius)
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