The 1928 Flu was sometimes called the Spanish Flu or "Spanish Influenza." This came to fruition when Spanish officials contacted London about it appearing in Madrid. Approximately 50 million people died from the 1918 flu. ... 1957-1958 a flu was dubbed "Asian flu." Approximately 1 million people died. There is also a long history of discrimination against Chinese Immigration i.e the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882 and the Geary Act of 1892. Why am I sharing this? The Coronavirus isn't the first time a country's people have been stigmatized. It also isn't the first time Asians have been discriminated against. I won't use corny phrases like "ya'll are uneducated," "ya'll are bigots," "y'all are uncultured" or anything similar to those... However, I will state that anyone discriminating against someone because of their ethnicity or nationality is racist and has always had racist tendencies under the surface, slowly waiting to show who they truly are. We shouldn't be separated, we should be unified and supportive of each other. More than 165,000 deaths have occurred because of the virus. Many people have had strokes from this virus... they also develop neurological ailments such as confusion, seizure or loss of smell. Once people get this shit, they will NEVER be the same, not to mention it sttacks your lungs. Multiple countries are now investigating Wuhan's lab role in COVID-19. It would be wrong to blame all Asians as a whole. Instead, we should wait and see the further findings of their investigation. Also, for those of you making racial comments about local Chinese/Asian restaurants... eat a dick, Panda Express is still packed. This concludes my message. P.S. I reccomend the orange chicken and shrimp fried rice.
If wanting to do your own research or curious about these facts, some helpful resources are: The Washington Post Daily Express CNN BBC (I do mean the news😂)
Flattening for now. If ppl suddenly riot and quit social distancing, we all ded ( which ppl are doing)
I don't really get why pointing out its origin in its name would lead to an increase in racial hatecrimes. Does it not just make more people aware of where it came from?
I think it just depends on the person and their point of view. Although it doesn’t change most people’s opinions on anyone or anything I think maybe some people like to have someone to blame or get angry at but that just comes with ignorance
A lot of dumbasses keep trying to do prom and party. Not to mention the spring breakers of fast ass mfs who can't stay in the house. Which is fucked up, cause it affects all of us.
Lol. What is the definition of deadly? "Causing or able to cause death." The flu isn't considered deadly yet... millions have died from it. Deadly in our modern society is opinion. More people have died from the flu in shorter periods of time. Many of the viruses I mentioned have cause more deaths... once again, in shorter amounts of time. To me, deadly is around that million mark. Or even that half a million mark, but hey some people feel the need to exaggerate and intentionally cause panic. But... compare the number of people who tested positive verses the death toll and think about the percentage. I'll let you do the math.
Americans have a knack of making foolish choices based on premeditated discriminatory feelings towards people... especially when the blame is placed on specific groups of people.
Sadly, its not just the Americans. I'm from Asia, and ever since the corona virus crisis started, a lot of people from my country had been doing the same. Its sad, really. Some even joked about it when a group of Chinese residents here tried to help by giving free face masks months ago. Also, shrimp fried rice is the best imo
I've seen so many insensitive comments regarding the virus and China. It's disgusting that people think they can get away with their stoopid remarks because apparently some guy ate a bat.
I forgot about this. High heat temperatures kill Coronavirus, right? Plus they probably have to clean the bats before they eat them and cooking at bat at high temperatures should kill the virus. Not the mention the leader of their country is basically a dictator. Who bans Winnie the Pooh?💀
There's no real proof that it came from eating a bat, as far as I found using google but the most likely carriers are considered to be bats or snakes. Heat would kill the virus but most people don't even cook beef/pork/chicken to proper temperatures and we been told what the proper internal cooking temperature for those are. The proper internal temperature for cooking a bat or snake is not common knowledge so it would be pretty easy to undercook and eat infected tissue
It has a geographical and anthropological origin. In Wuhan province in China, in the squalor of a certain wet market. In a culture that likes to eat exotic animals which would contain a bug. That shit ain't kosher, and I tell you who isn't introducing that disease to the rest of the world: people who eat kosher animals that have been a part of our diet for generations without cross-species transmission of viruses. I took swine flu as an excuse to fortify my belief and respect for kosher guidelines because pigs aren't kosher. But I will enjoy some bacon sometimes, and I know most cultures consider the meat of that high tier scavenger and disgusting plague bearer to be good and a they constitute a large portion of their diet, I can sleep on my fears. But when it comes to bats, pangolins, weird and wacky exotic creatures, you better be cooking that shit well. I would never touch it because it is a total risk. Most cultures, without necessarily thinking about it, just have these habitual foods that they stick with and know are safe because that tradition is good to follow with few drawbacks to expanding the menu. And as Wednesday just said, they might not know the right cooking temperature for those animals or even if there is one. The temp to kill the virus may be way higher than what the meat can handle and still be tasty at. That aside, will idiots be racist when a country fucks up and a cultural practice is seen as partially to blame for something? When common sense, so common it doesn't bear articulating seems missing. When the education system and cultural wisdom passed from parents to kids don't keep these protections up and a culture shows signs of moral or health practice bankruptcy. Every culture around the globe has its blindspots. And I heard there was a recent ban on the cultivation of dogs for food. I personally think there should also be one on octopodes even though I love how they taste: they are very intelligent and aren't kosher. Racists will pick up on any flaw in a culture and go with it. I don't think trying to keep them ignorant and pulling the wool over the eyes of the world about where some cultures suck is worth it. Racism isn't something that can be tolerated and I personally think everyone can afford a nuanced view on cultural blindspots because racism and hating people for where they come from is a cultural blindspot as well.