Anti-China sentiment spreads around the globe along with coronavirus

[holy cow cm]

You know it is bad when you see all the land animals and even the whales and dolphins and fish around the world protesting holding signs saying: No Chinese allowed, you destroy everything everywhere. No Welcome you.

Edited January 31, 2020 by holy cow cm

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

4 hours ago, PremiumLane said:

If there was a virus outbreak in your home country, how would you feel if people suddenly start harassing you, just because of your nationality? 

 

I don't have anything against Chinese people per se...

 

I just don't want to be around potentially sick and contagious people, regardless of their nationality...

 

And it just so happens, Chinese who have been in mainland Chinese since December are the current nationality du jour.

 

Would have said the same thing for the Middle East during MERS, Africa during Ebola, the U.S. during Trump, etc etc.... 

Edited January 31, 2020 by TallGuyJohninBKK

[rabas]

1 hour ago, Bluespunk said:

How easy it is for racist xenophobes to latch onto any story to expose their prejudices.

How easy is it, even with a story about avoiding disease,  for some to pull out tired, old terms like racist, xenophobe, etc. I know it makes some feel good, but it mostly hits innocent people.

 

[klauskunkel]

Bird Flu Virus at the turn of the millennium came from China. SARS Virus a decade later came from China. Now Corona Virus comes from China. Every decade, or so...

6 hours ago, webfact said:

The Chinese government said it was determined to contain an epidemic it called a "common challenge facing mankind".

"Prejudice and narrow-minded words are no good at all," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

It is China's social behavior that keeps creating and sharing these diseases, and its political culture keeps it from addressing the problem. It is not "a common challenge facing mankind", it is China's unwillingness to change its society's practices. Well, you better start, or it will be mankind facing a common challenge called China.

[richard_smith237]

3 minutes ago, klauskunkel said:

Bird Flu Virus at the turn of the millennium came from China. SARS Virus a decade later came from China. Now Corona Virus comes from China. Every decade, or so...

It is China's social behavior that keeps creating and sharing these diseases, and its political culture keeps it from addressing the problem. It is not "a common challenge facing mankind", it is China's unwillingness to change its society's practices. Well, you better start, or it will be mankind facing a common challenge called China.

Just confirmation bias... 

MERS came from ??? 

[30la]

This is panic that is going out of control!
Stop it, it's a flu and you will find medicine very soon!

[aircooledflat4]

3 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

It is normal for the restaurant to provide extra chopstick

It isn't normal at all. Usually one has to request some kind of community serving spoon and even then it doesn't guarantee people will use it, thus continuing to double-dip anyway.

[URMySunshine]

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by URMySunshine

[Eric Loh]

44 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

where can i get me a big steamin' hot bowl of Live Bat?

 

Take time to read this link especially the misinformation regarding the origin of the bat soup.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/sci-tech/project-fear-misinformation-spreads-china-virus-panic-1.4789873

[sawadee1947]

The thing is that WE have to mess up China's health and hygiene problems. 

My doctor collegue in a big hospital in central China told me last night that before he came to this hospital both doctors and nurses did not change their dresses every day and did not wash their hands before touching ill patients. No gloves available. 

China is a high tec country on one side but on the other hand poor in hygiene 

[EricTh]

These people are really ignorant and racist.

 

China is as huge as Europe, if someone in England gets the virus, that doesn't mean all Europeans should be banned.

 

After all, Europeans can freely travel around Europe.

Edited January 31, 2020 by EricTh

[FarFlungFalang]

5 minutes ago, sawadee1947 said:

did not wash their hands before touching ill patients. No gloves available. 

China is a high tec country on one side but on the other hand poor in hygiene 

Pun intended?

[ChipButty]

I find all Asians racist, even Thai's complain about the Chinese being dirty I dont care what you think at the moment I'm not sitting in a restaurant full of Chinese tourist

[URMySunshine]

[klauskunkel]

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

MERS came from ??? 

MERS Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, I guess it came from... China. 

[metisdead]

Some "off" topic posts and replies have been removed. 

[Tchooptip]

 They only have to come to Thailand they will be consoled. All they have to do is change their Yuan into Baht

[toolpush]

5 hours ago, crabbie2020 said:

Chinese are some of the most racist people on earth, even to their own kind e.g. muslims, hill tribes. They generally despise anyone foreign.

 

I'll be happy if they are permanently banned from travel! Their fault for putting up with being in a dictatorship!

I have worked in China for 17 years and I have never found them racist at all. Most are indifferent or friendly, but very rarely hostile.

[crabbie2020]

7 minutes ago, toolpush said:

I have worked in China for 17 years and I have never found them racist at all. Most are indifferent or friendly, but very rarely hostile.

How would you know? Guessing you probably look like one!! 

 

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by crabbie2020

[PremiumLane]

5 hours ago, rabas said:

I would absolutely understand, and accept, that they were worried about catching a disease from me.

You wouldn't find it idiotic as you may not have been in your home country? I work with three Chinese girls, by you reckoning I should shun them, but they haven't been in China for over 10 months.... 

[PremiumLane]

18 minutes ago, Mark17AA said:

Pure disgusting people,... Everything they do or touch is ruined, with there class less behavior.

now now, not all members of TVF are that bad, some are quite nice ???? 

[captpkapoor]

I'm sorry, but I agree with all the anti-China sentiment. Repeatedly, simply because of the highly "adventurous" diet they eat, we have had viruses jumping from animals or birds (bats earlier) to humans. Why must the rest of the world suffer because of their dietary preferences?

[PremiumLane]

4 hours ago, TallGuyJohninBKK said:

 

I don't have anything against Chinese people per se...

 

I just don't want to be around potentially sick and contagious people, regardless of their nationality...

 

And it just so happens, Chinese who have been in mainland Chinese since December are the current nationality du jour.

 

Would have said the same thing for the Middle East during MERS, Africa during Ebola, the U.S. during Trump, etc etc.... 

yes, cos I am not an idiot

[Bluespunk]

3 hours ago, rabas said:

How easy is it, even with a story about avoiding disease,  for some to pull out tired, old terms like racist, xenophobe, etc. I know it makes some feel good, but it mostly hits innocent people.

 

The comments I quoted from the OP were as I described them. 

[JWRC]

2 hours ago, 30la said:

This is panic that is going out of control!
Stop it, it's a flu and you will find medicine very soon!

They may or they may not find medicine as you put it, sometimes there are things to worry about. if we look at history and the 1918 influenza which was estimated to have infected 500 million people, the death toll being estimated between 50 and 100 million. This influenza even found it's way to the Arctic and remote Islands, I believe people are right to be worried.

[Youlike]

6 hours ago, impulse said:

I like the people, but I still get the willies every time I'm at a group function and there's a guy across the table coughing and hacking, then dipping his chopsticks into the community bowl we're all eating from.  That's the custom, and if you don't eat from the shared dishes, you go hungry.  I don't care if it's exotic food or not.  It's not hygienic, and I guaranty you that it played a huge role in the rapid spread of the coronavirus. 

 

Then you'll be hungry in Thailand as well, Thai groups do exactly the same and in most restaurants the dishes which are for the whole group even don't have a serving spoon....

 

Then i try to be smart and order dishes for myself but before i can get some of it the other guys already took the best parts out of it with their own chopsticks or forks.

[JohnFlory]

7 hours ago, Eric Loh said:

It’s not fact and it’s a bigoted and racially charged view. 
 

You are wrong to single out the Chinese eating exotic food. China not the only country to eat exotic creatures. If you imply that eating is cause of the disease; you dead wrong as droppings and association rather than eating have been medically proven to be the causes. 
 

Again wrong to claim flu variations come from China. MERS originated from Middle East. Normal flu is just as dangerous. In US between the months of Oct - Nov, 910-2,400 people died from flu and 16,000-29,000 people hospitalized according to CDC reports. 
 

China is perhaps the only country in the world that can ordered a lockdown of a province of 11 million people by a single order. They are just as concern with the disease severity as the whole world. Many global health organizations including WHO are involved in stopping the spread. You can’t lie with such large exposure coverage by the world. 

Not getting into the rest, but this is a good quote from the above:  "China is perhaps the only country in the world that can ordered a lockdown of a province of 11 million people by a single order." I am sure the Uyghers and Falun Gong members appreciate this fact.

[Gecko123]

I'd pull in the reins on the Chinese bashing, people. This virus has already spread outside of China, and I'm starting to pick up anxious vibes from locals that, even as a non-Chinese foreigner, I might be a health hazard as well.

 

Remember how many cheered when immigration was reported to be targeting sub-Saharan Africans, and how the cheering suddenly stopped when they started clamping down on retirement visas as well? What goes around, comes around. We're all in this together whether we like it or not.

 

Edited January 31, 2020 by Gecko123

[thisisrascal]

I'm thinking of going into a big shopping mall in Bangkok with a huge sign saying 'Free hugs for the Chinese'.

 

Of course, the chest infection brought on by the pollution may make them think twice.

Edited January 31, 2020 by thisisrascal

[Scot123]

It did not take long for the self-righteous to start screaming RACIST! It is not racist to criticisise or to be worried, scared of a killer disease from any country even China. The staged click bait sign in a shop window and so many fall for it. Yes the Chinese have some very bad habits (not all and less so the young) that can easily disgust weasteners (I remember as a young man on a bus in Hong Kong, I was shocked at what I saw). Then again the Chinese have such a beautiful culture as well. Just accept There is a major outbreak and protect yourself and your family in whatever way suits you.