From: slider@atashram.com

A Swiss distillery has converted its production of pear schnapps to make disinfectant hand gel for use against the coronavirus.

Morand Distillery, a family-run business founded in 1889 in Martigny in
the Valais canton, is using up its stocks of "Poire Williams", a
colourless spirit made from pears grown in orchards below the snow-capped mountains.

In normal times, it is a favourite apres-ski tipple, but restrictions on
travel and gatherings have hit demand, and now, like many distilleries
around the world, Morand has lent their supplies to help stem the Alpine nation's rush for sanitiser.

### - so could this perhaps be the equivalent of us 'beating our swords
into plowshares'? ;)

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