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

[Jonathan Lighter]

At this morning's briefing, a very friendly reporter asked President T---p
how, if "Chinese food" isn't "racist," how could his use of "Chinese virus"
possibly be so construed?  T---p suggested, more or less, that here at last
was an honest representative of the press.

I haven't noticed any Fake News (TM) people or Arrogant Elites (TM)
offering an answer to this seemingly inexplicable (I almost wrote
"inscrutable"! Sorry!) conundrum, though I assume it's obvious to anyone
here who takes the question seriously (n.b.).

(I see now that the previous paragraph may itself be something of a
conundrum. "Just what the hell is he getting at?"  Over  to you....)

JL

On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 1:53 PM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >   sales of Corona beer are up 5%
>
> Quod remedium. Id omnes sciunt!
>
> IL
>
> (But seriously, soaks, shouldn't beer sales be up more than that? I blame
> covid.)
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 11:48 AM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> > On Mar 19, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Regardless, the more apt translation is "The disease, not the beer."
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> > On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 9:56 AM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 8:29 AM Jonathan Lighter <
>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> "Quid, me anxius sum?"  - Alfr. E. Neumannus
>> >>>
>> >>> JL
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 9:17 PM Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> "Si conamini, prohibebo!" (ait Julius Caesar)
>> >>>>
>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 8:45 PM W Brewer <brewerwa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>>>
>> >>>>> Stercus, vir! Quid conaris loqui? (ait Varrhenius Cerevesarius)
>> >>>>>
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