Woman named ‘Corona’ says she gets threats, abuse

2020 is not a great year to be named “Corona.”

A British woman named Corona Newton told the BBC that she’s received a number of threatening phone calls and can’t give her name at a restaurant without getting looks from staff amid the coronavirus pandemic.

“People have said to me ‘as if I’m going to listen to somebody named after a virus,’” Newton told the news outlet.

Newton, who lives in the COVID-19 hotspot of Oldham, near Manchester, added that last week when she was driving her daughter to the dentist a man called and screamed at her because of her name.

“He screamed down the phone at me ‘what does it feel like to f—k the world over?’” she said.

At a recent parent-teacher meeting at her school, a teacher thought Newton’s daughter was being inappropriate when she was just saying her mom’s name — not referring to the virus, she told the BBC.

Newton, a native of Ireland who was named after the midwife who delivered her, said she’s faced jokes her entire life — but most of it was related to the beer she shares a name with.

“People used to call me Guinness and Budweiser,” she told the BBC. “That I could always laugh off. But this is more frustrating, especially when it gets aggressive.”

via: https://nypost.com/2020/11/09/woman-named-corona-says-she-gets-threats-abuse/

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