I’m Chinese-American, and this is someone that I’ve gone to school with for almost three years, who I consider a friend. “An obscure virus arising from a meat market in eastern China.” As the Coronavirus spreads, there’s another virus spreading that we need to be talking about. And so I literally like raised my hand up and was like “I’m Chinese.” She didn’t even say sorry. Yeah, basically this Chinese restaurant was like texting their customers saying none of our staff have been to China. It seems like since the start of the Coronavirus outbreak schools have been a Petri dish for racism.

Source: New York Times March 14, 2020 19:30 UTC