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'I Need More Beer!!': 93-Year-Old Pa. Woman Goes Viral With Message While Staying Home During Coronavirus Outbreak

SEMINOLE, Pa. (KDKA) -- A Pittsburgh-area woman has gone viral, after a photo of her asking for more beer has been viewed more than four million times.

The growing Coronavirus outbreak has led many people to willingly staying home to help 'flatten the curve' and do their part to help keep everyone stay safe.

UPDATE: Olive Got More Beer! Click Here For The Update!

For 93-year old Olive Veronesi, staying home has forced her to ask for help in keeping an essential supply in the house.

TOO FUNNY: ♥️???? 93-year old Olive Veronesi from Seminole, PA is doing her part to stay home and stay safe, and she's sending this message to her neighbors and to her daughter. More: kdka.com/coronavirus.

Posted by KDKA-TV | CBS Pittsburgh on Thursday, April 9, 2020

A relative of Veronesi's took this photo of her holding a dry-erase board that read "I need more beer!"

She was also holding a can of Coors Light beer in the photo.

That photo has now gone viral around the world.

More than four million people have seen the photo after it was first posted on the KDKA Facebook page.

"Love you to bits all the way from England," Martin Goodwin wrote.

"Oh okay a 93-year-old does it and it's funny and heartwarming but when I do it I'm an alcoholic," Ty Mason wrote.

Several people have reached out offering to get Olive some more beer.

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(Photo Credit: KDKA)

"It's nice, something for a young lady," Veronesi said.

In fact, we have it on good authority that Olive will be getting her wish very soon.

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