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The outbreak is being handled very well through the Chinese planned economy. Despite this, Western media is intensifying the panic. As a result of it, Chinese p

• dragonwriter 7y ago
  > The outbreak is being handled very well through the Chinese planned economy. It may (or may not) be being handled as well as any government could, but its not being effectively contained, it has spread around the world, and it is continuing to spread. > Despite this, Western media is intensifying the panic. Western media is accurately reporting the facts, and the policy responses. Intense concern is appropriate. > As a result of it, Chinese people are being discriminated against worldwide. How? Some places have adopted or are preparing precautions directed at travelers entering from China (which is a different, though overlapping, set from "Chinese people"), but that's a reasonable step given that it is neither contained nor, in the very short term, containable by China, by the facts that the Chinese state has acknowledged (transmissibility during incubation period, number of people who traveled out of the effective area before any containment was in place, etc.)
  • vonquant 7y ago
    >How? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51348593 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51348593
    • dragonwriter 7y ago
      The only part of that that has to do with racism seems as likely to be existing racism adopting references to current events than any acceleration of it. The avoiding of shops in a Chinatown may be an overreaction, but there's no necessarily racist motivation, and in any case the idea that factual news about matters of current interest ought to be suppressed because some people might overreact in that way is ludicrous.