Social Distance Warriors: Fox News Cootie Cops rebrand COVID-19 as “Wuhan Virus” because xenophobia
By annieli on March 10, 2020
Lowest Common Denominator Disinformation continues at Fox News, as they report on official attempts by Mike Pompeo and others calling COVID-19 a “Chinese Covid” or “Wuhan Virus”
The media framing at Fox News seems to have been now directed as sinophobic tropes, with an accompanying CT that COVID-19 is a Chinese bio-warfare plot. It has gotten picked up by RWNJ GOP Congress members like Paul Gosar.
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Most people call it the coronavirus.
Some call it Covid-19.
But only the most ignorant and racist among us would call it the Wuhan virus.
The spread of COVID-19 “has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in anti-Asian discrimination across the U.S., and news stories featuring photos of people of Asian descent unrelated to the context of the reporting help to perpetuate this racism.” @mmfa: https://t.co/XpU3HyzKCf
In August 2015,social justice warriorwas one of several new words and phrases added toOxford Dictionaries.[1][10][11]Martin states that “the perceived orthodoxy [of progressive politics] has prompted a backlash among people who feel their speech is being policed”.[1]
Use of the term has been described as attempting to degrade the motivations of the person accused of being an SJW, implying that their motives are “for personal validation rather than out of any deep-seated conviction”.[3]
Social distancingis a term applied to certain nonpharmaceuticalinfection controlactions that are taken bypublic healthofficials to stop or slow down the spread of a highlycontagious disease. The objective of social distancing is to reduce the probability of contact between persons carrying an infection, and others who are not infected, so as to minimizedisease transmission, morbidity and ultimately,mortality.[1]
Historically,leper coloniesandlazarettoswere established as a means of preventing the spread ofleprosyand other contagious diseases through social distancing,[5]until transmission was understood and effective treatments were invented.
An overseas Filipino worker in Italy was attacked by an Italian man for being mistaken as a Chinese national amid the novel coronavirus outbreak in the European country. https://t.co/MvpBPN666E
A Mr Bean impersonator trapped in Wuhan is being used by the Chinese government’s propaganda news outlets to praise China’s response to the coronavirus outbreak as “amazing†and “incredibleâ€Â.https://t.co/YeRfn6zxhE
"You're not mopping fast enough. (Laughter) That's a socialist mop. (Laughter and applause) Grab a mop -- let's get to work." - Barack Obama (2009); "Soyez réalistes, demandez l'impossible!"
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