Corona Virus: #Je suis pas un virus

Coronavirus feeds racist comments and raises fears of "bat soup" and biological warfare

      The fear of the spread of the Coronavirus has turned into a phobia, as soon as the virus is mentioned it comes to mind that all Asians have it. As a French citizen of Asian descent, I have not visited China in my life, I am also susceptible to it as other human beings. I am not a virus, they stopped Racism. 

      
    The tweet above carried a young Asian complaint of "the discrimination he has suffered since the new Coronavirus appeared in China," he said.

    So he, along with a group of Asian youth, turned to social media to express their displeasure by marking "#JeNeSuisPasUnVirus" (I am not a virus).

    Markers say that the jokes and racist comments targeting them have multiplied after the outbreak of the Coruna virus.

    These incidents were not limited to France, as Tweeters in Canada and New Zealand reported reports of children being bullied in schools.

The term yellow warning:

    Shen Cheng, a young French woman of Vietnamese and Cambodian descent, also decided to use the hashtag to talk about the insulting comments she was subjected to, as she described it.

    When I was getting on a bus in Paris on Sunday, I heard a passenger whisper," Shen told BBC News, "We have a Chinese woman here, all of us will pass the infection." She must return to her country. 

  

    People gave me a disgusting gaze as if I were a carrier of the virus. No one moved a finger, so I decided to ignore the matter. But the lady did not stop at that but pretended to be sick and took about of cough to frighten others.

    The French newspaper "Courré Picard", has raised the ire of its followers, after it published a picture of a Chinese woman wearing a muzzle on her outer cover, and titled it "Yellow Warning".

    Under the weight of criticism, the French newspaper apologized for the headline, saying that she did not intend to offend.

    The title brings to mind the ancient racist phrases that portray Asian customs and food as unsafe and unwelcome.

    The term "yellow alert" was used for the first time in the nineteenth century with the first wave of Chinese immigration to the United States.

    The term at the time implied a hostile tendency towards Asians in general.