

Its totally acceptable (and 100 percent less obnoxious) to order a Corona at the bar, but the beers official name is Corona Extra. This suggests that the collective experience of wider society this year could be deemed a sort of shared trauma. Youre probably calling it the wrong thing. Not only is this unfunny, but it is also false information and could act as a catalyst in spreading panic. The combination of these graphics suggests that in the future, ‘corona’ will be inextricably linked to the virus and that just saying its name will induce traumatic flashbacks. In fact, memes about how you should avoid the beer to prevent coronavirus also went viral.

The background depicts an atomic bomb exploding into a mushroom cloud and is overlaid with photographs of an empty toilet roll (alluding to the rush on toilet paper that occurred early in 2020), a bottle of Corona beer (a company unfortunate enough to share a name with the virus), empty shelves (from where people had panicked bought), graphics of the virus and the muppet Elmo wearing a mask, looking into the middle distance. The background depicts an atomic bomb exploding into a mushroom cloud and. This meme uses symbolism in order to compare the pandemic to disastrous world events. This meme uses symbolism in order to compare the pandemic to disastrous world events.
HIST30060 - submitted as part of a history assignment. Watch CBS News MoneyWatch No, Corona's beer sales did not suffer from the coronavirus By Stephen Gandel Decem/ 3:26 PM / MoneyWatch Corona, the Mexican beer, has come through.
