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I wish people stop calling that Spanish Flu where it's totally unrelated to Spain...

• tcbasche 7y ago
  Yeah! Coronavirus doesn't even have anything to do with the beer!
  • BrianHenryIE 7y ago
    Since you made me wonder: > corona: "crown" (from latin corōna, meaning "crown") > virus: "poisonous secretion" (from latin vīrus, meaning "venom" or "poisonous secretion") > Coronavirus, the virus responsible for 30% of common colds, as well as SARS, has the appearance of a crown (corona) under electron microscopy, due to the spike proteins that coat the viral surface. Viruses, being so small, might have been thought of before they were discovered, to be poisonous secretions (virus) of unknown origin, hence their name. https://medicaletymology.fandom.com/wiki/Coronavirus https://medicaletymology.fandom.com/wiki/Coronavirus
  • gentleman11 7y ago
    Apparently, corona beer sales are way down due to this unfortunate coincidence
• H8crilA 7y ago
  It is unrelated but the mechanism by which the association came about is funny: it was first widely (read: honestly) reported by Spain, therefore everyone associated it with Spain, even thought first cases, including initial deaths, were in other countries which suppressed the news.
• kaffeemitsahne 7y ago
  That ship has sailed for just about a century.