That’s what it is, isn’t it. Retirement in their design department, new hires and this is a Millenial message marketing to Gen Zers (and Alphas too, automotive preference starts early)

I think they want people to focus on the “agua” and the j and r are just little accents on it like its word art rather than a logo. Like, I literally picture the marketing weirdos at the meeting going off like this.

I’m in the US and I pronounce it, I think a lot of people do? Maybe I just know a lot of snobs and “regular” Americans mush the word together but I don’t think so

The earliest tests done on residual samples from the Red Cross date back to December 13th and they show a small but significant positive caseload at that time. To my knowledge no other testing was done on earlier samples so in theory it could have been present before that in the US.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7799215/

Even with researchers testing samples that were taken before Covid was known about, the earliest US cases seem to be mid-December.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Serologic+testing+of+U.S.+blood+donations+to+identify+SARS-CoV-2-reactive+antibodies%3A+December+2019-January+2020&author=SV+Basavaraju&author=ME+Patton&author=K+Grimm&publication_year=2020&journal=Clin+Infect+Dis&volume=72

I’ll be shocked if its classified as terrorism.