We can’t afford to allow right-wing scapegoating China. (ODT)

This goes double for the right. In Australia, too, prominent voices are making it their business to ensure that this pandemic is blamed entirely on the PRC, and that this leads to a posture of conflict with that country. This will inevitably worsen the scapegoating of Asian immigrants which is being reported in majority-white countries.

via How the right is responding to the coronavirus: denial, contrarianism or reluctant realism | Jason Wilson | Opinion | The Guardian