WP4- Blog 1

 Ramiro Lucas-Mariano

Viruses and diseases have their own ways of spreading amongst a population and at their own

rate. In 2019, the discovery of first Coronavirus infections was detected in Wuhan China, and

was believed to have been through one of Wuhan’s many wet markets.  By January of 2020, the

coronavirus was detected in the United States and began to quickly expand just as in many other

countries. By March of 2020, the epidemic had become a pandemic that led to the shutdown of

many countries. President Trump played down the seriousness of the virus, and constantly

blamed China for the pandemic, instead of finding a way to stop the spread. President Trump

began to refer to the Coronavirus as the “Kung Flu”, and “Chinese Virus”, creating a rise in

racist harassment against Asian-Americans and China. Asian Americans were seen as hostile

and quickly experienced racially motivated violence and hatred by Americans, polarizing the

country even further. The Asian-American community deserves an apology from the United

States Government on behalf of the Trump Administration for creating a rise in racist

harassment against Asian-Americans due to the usage of racist terminology with regards to the

Coronavirus Pandemic, and to better unionize the country with an ideal environment for

diversity.