Racism due to corona virus

[decoy2673]

Naming a disease is all political, like almost everything these days. Calling it the Spanish flu is ok. Calling AIDS a gay disease is not apparently. Chinese virus is up in the air. Its all political. This virus although originating from Wuhan, isn't really surprising. History repeats itself. SARS, MERS, mad cow, h1n1, avian flu, we've seen this shit before and will continue too. Par for the course. Its the government that fucked us. If Trudeau closes the border in fucking November when this virus surfaced wed all be laughing now enjoying our lives, getting laid, making money with the economy booming. But he didn't because he wanted to avoid the negative press, to save/garner votes to keep his sorry ass in power. He and (just about every other politician) would rather see thousands die, millions lose their jobs rather than miss out on another term. Disgusting.

 

[Czar]

Another report on the local news tonight about the Chinese community of the GTA claiming they are experiencing racism due to the corona virus outbreak. Another politician(Ontario NDP leader) was there providing support. My question is have there been any verified accounts of this or is it just people claiming they feel discriminated against?

I see that a federally regulated company still asks on their job application form if I am a visible minority, which apparently gets you more points. So yes....racism is still alive and well.

 

[basketcase]

i like this. interestingly enough. if you count the number of deaths by country, europe and north america has much higher death rates than asia in relation to origin of virus. does that mean europe and the americas ate more fruits
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I strongly suspect that authoritarian countries like the first two hot spots (China, Iran) massively understated their deaths.

 

[basketcase]

Naming a disease is all political,....

Yes, political which is why Trump and the alt-right are calling it the Chinese virus.

On the medical side, they have the protocol of naming the virus after the specific region (Ebola, West Nile, Zika) or the specific makeup of the virus (H1N1) or the a description of the symptoms (SARS, HIV)

 

[ActionJ]

It is what it is. It is politicized by an administration that like to dumb it down for its supporters. I've yet to experience any verbal racism, but I've gotten a few questionable stares. But who cares, I grew up in TO during the 70s where I've been subjected to all kinds of racial comments and bullying. Shit like this is nothing to me.