Many in the Chinese community are advising otherwise, but it has not halted the public from directing hate and racist comments towards the community. Justin Kong, the executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council, says that Akman’s online discrimination is impermissible. “It’s not an evidence-based approach.”SARS outbreakThe treatment that Chinese-Canadians have been subjected to is reminiscent of that during the 2003 SARS virus outbreak. In wake of the outbreak, Historica Canada recirculated a video that highlighted the stigma stacked against Chinese communities during the 2003 SARS outbreak. Drawing on the impact of SARS, Canadians need to acknowledge that their chance of infection is still relatively low, according to Wilson-Smith.

Source: National Post January 30, 2020 19:07 UTC