Starting from the initial burst of Covid-19, the trends of the news have changed a lot. From purely the reports of rates of infections, death, and recovery to the policies, racial hates and something that are not quite related to the coronavirus, the news is all connected to the virus with all the different voices oversea. The coronavirus was firstly reported in Wuhan, China, and the source of infections was initially detected to be the bats. As investigations became deeper, the source of infection was determined to be Paguma larvata. However, as the source being revealed, the country of origin became skeptical. Many countries proposed differently with their evidence that also lead to international “conflict” with all the adverse news and voices to those countries. With all the overwhelming news, what should we believe? As a person who is curious about the facts, I discovered that when people post their comments or make their proposals on platforms like social media, some of them exist a kind of behaviors that are referred to as the concept, “unconscious bias,” in the textbook. The “unconscious bias” refers to a phenomenon in which “dominant group members” unconsciously favor their own group, which means that many people post comments unintentionally based on the evidence from their own countries. Those comments also potentially induce national hates and even racial hates. Furthermore, with the requests of wearing masks coming out, the hates and conflicts became even worse, especially for Asians (Americans) in the US, some people start to use violence and insult them even on campus. After the requests became accepted in the US, Asians are seemed to be “treated” better, but without much news, it is still hard to tell if the condition has become better or not.
Here is an example of a skeptical claim about the country of origin of COVID_19: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=28&v=9DhV-1LDmp4&feature=emb_logo
Reference:
Valverde, K. C., & Dariotis, W. M. (2020). Fight the tower: Asian American women scholars
resistance and renewal in the academy. New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey, and London, Rutgers University Press.
Peter Beaumont (2020), “Where did Covid-19 come from? What we know about its origins,”the Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/could-covid-19-be-manmade what- we-know-about-origins-trump-chinese-lab-coronavirus
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