Nouran El Rady
There has been a growing number of reports where members of the Chinese-Australian and Asian-Australian communities have been subjected to verbal abuse and racist slurs.
Numerous reports indicate a significant increase in harassment and violent attacks that were classified as xenophobia, daily crimes without consequences.
In many countries, the criminals face charges of assault and threat and the state protection services investigate any possible racist motives. However, in other circumstances disasters happened.
Racism also occurs in china itself for example on the 28th of January 2020, a man collapsed and died of a suspected cardiac arrest outside a restaurant in Sydney's Chinatown. It has been suggested that bystanders refused to perform CPR out of fear of coronavirus.
Speaking of medical issues, a German gynecologist broke the code of medical ethics by turning away a Chinese woman, who had not visited China in three months, claiming that the coronavirus may infect other pregnant women in the clinic. The Chinese Embassy in Berlin acknowledged a rise in hostile cases against its citizens since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Stigmatization increased and went so far as traumatizing children of Asian origin. Students were excluded from groups and mocked in middle schools near Paris.
Others take it as sort of a “fun” and “cool” opportunity to judge and mock others like an Argentinian deliveryman who decided it would be funny to say ‘What's up coronavirus’ to those who opened the door. They ended up being injured and called the authorities later.
It is NOT a joke and it will NEVER be one. A pandemic is global war against a microscopic enemy. All we have to do is to live in peace and not fight like animals; hurting and humiliating each other. All we have to do is to stay home and handle self-hygiene.
Restaurants and establishments have witnessed a dramatic drop in business, with trade declining by over 70%.Supermarkets in Germany are empty.
Italy decided to be peaceful and took a romantic scene, just that of titanic. Orchestras played live on every street, citizens sang from windows, others were playing the piano and slow dancing, showing much love to the world.
Grandmas recorded videos saying ‘I have always been telling you to wash your hands and cover your mouth with your elbow when you sneeze. You have got to listen to me someday, kiddo.’
In Egypt, however, we can't take anything seriously; the memes are endless, several challenges are going viral, the newest of which is kicking a roll of tissue paper and seeing how long you can go without dropping it.
It's a good thing not to panic anyway.
Staying inside and being safe is the number one priority to beat this virus.
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