Corona and the virus

[JoeShlabotnik]

Did Corona Beer Sales Drop Sharply Due to Fear About the Coronavirus? | Snopes.com

 

[UpUpAndAway]

Srsly. :woman_facepalming:t2:

 

[JoeShlabotnik]

Perhaps these people have been using too much of the product?

 

[UpUpAndAway]

Surely not.

But seriously, you may be on to something there.

 

[Mr.Phoenix]

I’ve got Gin at home, purely for medicinal purposes.

 

[Xystus]

But the trope that “people are so dumb they’re shunning Corona beer because they think it’s connected to the coronavirus” was too tempting for many news outlets to eschew, even though little or no evidence backed it up. Many of them based their articles on a survey that supposedly documented that “38% of Beer-Drinking Americans Wouldn’t Buy Corona Now,” again suggesting people were being scared off the brand due to mistaken associations between the name of the brand and a virus.

So what we have here is news outlets making stuff up… who would have thought that could happen?