The world has been in a media meltdown since the outbreak of a virtually unknown disease called the ‘Corona-virus’.
The virus originated in a seafood market in Wuhan, located in Eastern China. The virus was behind a number of pneumonia cases that came to light at the beginning of 2020 and has now circulated its way around most of Western Europe, before eventually reaching the UK.
In the UK, there are currently thirteen reported cases of coronavirus, with the latest being four people who travelled to the UK via plane after their Japan cruise ship was evacuated due to panic over the illness.
But, although this has the capabilities to turn into a deadly pandemic, many are using the news of this disease to further push their racist, backwards agendas.
On February 9th, a 29-year-old woman was rushed to hospital with a concussion as she was assaulted while protecting her friend from a racist attack.
Meera Solanki, a trainee lawyer, was out celebrating her birthday with friends when an unidentified man began to harass the group.
It is alleged the man began to shout racial slurs, before saying, “take your f**king coronavirus and take it back home.”
Solanki tried to diffuse the situation and pushed the man away, who then punched her in the head and she fell to the ground unconscious.
This incident is one of the many reported racist attacks that have spiked since the coronavirus outbreak.
At times like this, the world needs to be reminded that one race is not responsible for a disease, and we need to cast our thoughts back to the AIDS crisis in the early 80’s.
This resulted in the persecution of many gay men and it is further stressed that we cannot allow another situation like that to happen again.
We need to work together as a society to battle these diseases, and not create scapegoats.
