Chief Medical Officer Brendan Murphy has denounced the spread of racist prejudices towards Chinese-Australians as authorities continue to grapple with the impact of the new coronavirus.
Mr Murphy said there was no reason for Australians to be wearing masks in public and urged against the outbreak fomenting racist attitudes. “There is no reason for people to be wearing masks, there is no reason for people to avoid anybody of any particular background or appearance.”There remain only 15 confirmed cases of coronavirus in Australia as global figures continue to rise, reaching some 42,723 cases.
The death toll of the virus has also reached 1,013, according to health officials with all of these cases with the exception of two occurring in mainland China.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
imnotavirus
Forget the racism bullshit talk. Our national health is more important !!!
This old white man should visit Wuhan and prove how safe it is
😂😂😂...Oh dear.....🙄
Wow the Chinese restaurants that used to be filled with Chinese are empty because of racism by white Australians
Nothing wrong with Chinese Australians, just need keep China at arm's length and plot our new course.
Phew--if it comes from a medical officer---We need a medical officer to tell us this? Jesus!
Anyone racist toward Chinese over this corona-virus are absolutely ignorant! We have to deal with this. Either the Media looking for a story or, if true then those without a clue. I personally avoid anyone with a cough etc regardless which part of the planet they're born.
AdamBandt A few people’s racist attitude against Chinese-Australians do not speak for mainstream Australia. You will always find a few racists in any country, nation and ethnicity on earth While it’s not acceptable, let’s not make it a bigger issue than it is; a few isolated idiots
By far the biggest response to the coronavirus in Oz has been from Chinese people living here not visiting Chinese restaurants and increasingly wearing masks. Someone better tell them they’re being racist.............🤔🤔🤦♂️🤦♂️😂
Chief Medical Officer warns us not to racially profile the Chinese regarding coronavirusaustralia, meanwhile the Department of Home Affairs racially profiles Chinese. It’s your XYZ. auspol
All Chinese are responsible by association of all these outbreaks. They also should understand that the reason for all of the scrutiny is because nobody trust the Chinese government. Hopefully this pressure relays back to China and it is used to force transparency from government
Maybe do your job in the medical world.
AdamBandt AmbLiuXiaoMing Please ask ASIO to pay for their role in the release of the Covid-19 CoronaVirus with BuckinghamPalace. It is unacceptable that this was discussed, and then permitted to occur. Please restore Emergency communications to Sovereign, under royal decree, now. S
I hated them before the Corona Virus
FFS. When did politicians lose all common sense? People arr being careful. It's not Racism. People are Sick to death of being called racist. We're not!
Let's all catch coronavirus so we can be equally suspicious of everybody, that'll fix it.
One report stated it was those of Chinese origin who were staying away?
This is a direct consequence the the CMO's decisions not to implement travel bans and appropriately strict quarantines.
Chinese are typical liar, if you are not careful, you'd be sorry later when WuhanCoronavirus make a deep root, as winter approach, you will be the next Wuhan. It is not about racism, is about being careful. If that would raise public awareness and improve hygiene, so be it.
Well maybe if they didn’t eat bats, live mice, rats, dog and everything else than we wouldn’t need to be concerned and wanting to protect our lives.
No China no Money!
They will not forget this and will come back to bite Australia someday.
Good thing they didn't call it the Spanish flu.
You have to realise that if you go back a million years our universal fear of outsiders was primarily due to disease.
I ate at a Chinese restaurant in the Sydney CBD last Wednesday. All the customers were westerners. Who’s the racists?
AdamBandt The fact that this is even necessary is depressing.
Give it a fucking rest, SBS.
It's also false, says Australians
What a headline
Well I don’t operate that way. Didn’t keep me away from my local massage parlour last Sunday.
If a European is cautious it's racism; if an Asian is cautious it's just being cautious, or virusism.
Another PC addled suit.
My my my look at all the closet racists come out the woodwork!
Let’s look at PMLive and Rowan Dean. Two of the biggest hypocrites on SkyNewsAust
Unacceptable, yes.
It's simply reflective of years of racist division fed to us by our politicians and our idiot media
Apparently white guys dating exclusively Asian girls is racist but now we avoid Asian girls it’s also racist ? Ok 👍
Oh for gods sake stop it, trying to turn everything into ‘racism’ sick of these labels!! Stop trying to push things that exist largely only in the barrow you are trying to push, its disgraceful 🤬
We need more China simpathy
Racism is ok. It's ok to have in group preference. It's ok to want to save your country for your kin
“unfounded” Yes. Well said. The claim of racism is unfounded
only racists are at sbs the propaganda spreading parasites
Put that racism card away. Its prudence & good old commonsense. And might I just point out that they're the ones alienating themselves, running around wearing face masks & avoiding the areas they normally frequent. The racism is theirs to own not ours. Oh & China is not a race.
Of course they would play the racism card, play the victim while they infect others. It’s not racism if they show total lack of respect for the country they have adopted to call home and feel they can have a revolving door to their cesspit. coronavirusaustralia CoronaOutbreak
Racism is always unacceptable!!
Chief medical officer should stop wasting time on and focus on the coronavirus.
If the response is racist then why is China town in Sydney empty? 🤔
AdamBandt there's a rise in anti Chinese sentiment everywhere. By design. Listened to the LNP lately? They're just following orders from Orange Mussolini AKA Trump.
AdamBandt With all respect to the CMO it’s his political masters who have fomented the racism...quarantine on Xmas I, banning entry of non-Australians who have visited China, treating those evacuated like lepers. I also suspect that the CMO’s true advice has been ignored or manipulated.
AdamBandt I blame the poor communication and overzealous bans. Racism is definitely a component, but some folks are just exercising an abundance of caution due to lack of information.
AdamBandt Pray for China 🙏
AdamBandt
He has no authority to demand anything, except maybe tell the kids to clean their room. His opinion has been noted.
So how does this hypothesis work with Africans and ebola?
But it’s ok for china to be racist against the west ? Get rid of CCP then all will be well
Lolz. Tracked 100% to the eating of pangolins...By the Chinese. In China. By Chinese people eating pangolin & all kinds of wild disease ridden live animals in China. Yeah, but unacceptable & unfounded 🙄🤦♂️
To summarize, travel ban and isolation are not racism. Sign ‘ there is no coronavirus because we are Australian made’ is more stupid / ignorance than racism. Define a whole race by some people’s horrible behaviors is racism. Like i don’t even eat seafood but no one believes me😭
Our racism seems to hover at a level where it surfaces with very little provocation. Very sad.
My colleague's niece was sent home from High School IN South Australia last Friday when she coughed in case she had Coronavirus. She hasn't been to China or in contact with anyone who has. What a crock !
Just say no to bigotry 👌🏻
How dare you make this about race. My Chinese friends are the ones updating us on where those infected ate and drank. They are the ones warning us to stay away from Chinatown and the markets and they are the ones walking around with masks on.
Yes ...let’s stop the racism...
Spoke to someone who goes to ?Keysborough Meat Market. Normally packed with Chinese doing their shopping. Nearly empty last week. It's not whites etc staying away it's the Chinese.
Nope just common sense prevailing. Block Chinese visitors from entering Australia until this is under control. Simple. Take your racist rhetoric and shove it SBS.
Frig China
I agree - allegations of a rise in racism are completely unfounded.
But it's ok to attack those on welfare, disability etc Classism at its finest lol!
If you’re concerned about your health- that’s racist!
phbarratt Given how little our medical professionals seem to know about the epidemiology and virology of coronavirus, they would do well to focus their efforts on the disease and save us the unnecessary and juvenile social commentary.
'Racism' 🙄 'Chinese' in this use of the word means national origin, not race, since the virus came from a country. It's natural to be weary when the media attempts to scare people... as usual.
Even though it originated in China and spread through the Chinese population and some of those infected Chinese people chose to travel which spread it, the problem is Australians
Starting with AustFedGovtLNP, propaganda then FALSE articles by some leading Newspapers + Social Media PROFITEERING from people's fear+gullibility. Questions shouldb asked Is it MANMADE disease? How did it start? [Dr found it Reported it Gotit? 1st2die] Who would benefit from it?
SBS needs to report on African racism against us
Let’s be honest. Most Australians couldn’t tell the difference between the asians races of that region. So can we use Asian Australians and worry more about how to stop it, finding out more about it, and start investigating what else China isn’t telling us about the virus
Has this bloke been f in the a by Tim Sudafednasalspray? Where is the racism?
What does it say that this virus may have statred by people eating and using the scales of the endengered pangolin & possibly eating bats, is it permisable to question these habbits.
And where in live it’s not happening, so all these racists must be waiting for SBS news & the CMO!
The Chief Medical Officer playing politics again facilitated by fake news There’s been no rise in racism.
knarfnamduh i want to know if the gov will compensate the business with cash $$$ grants/handouts that rely on Chinese visitors over summer for their main income over the year.... banning travel. just like they are compensating business affected by the drought or bushfire over the summer...?
I understand why the people commenting might not see certain things are racist - so let me give an example: on 23/01/20 News dot com shared an article on twitter, the tweet read 'A plane from the plague-ridden Chinese city of Wuhan has touched down in Australia' pt 1.
White Australia Policy lovers must be having a field day
O noes! Evewyones wacissssss
Dutton and Porter have a hand in this. Dutton organised Christmas Is. prison camp for Aust/Chinese instead of home detention as advised. Other countries are not opening prisons for returnees.
SCUMO BEEN IN TOUCH WITH HIM
So Chinese people staying away from other Chinese people is why white Australians are racist. Got it.
Who cares
jaci_wiley What absolute garbage. It's a disease in China and the disease is spreading round the world. SBS get off your bandwagon about racism. You belong in another country. Your about as Australian as the Third Reich.
Her you go again.... RAAAACCCCIIIISSSSTTTTS
Let’s suppose someone from the infected cruise ship walked into the SBS building. Well?
Talk more about Love, SBS
uuuummmm, data please.... mediabeatup
You are a disgrace.
Lindycleeland But so Australian. All this private education isn't making people smarter.
BS. In Australia we are avoiding anyone with a cough just in case.
Ok so it’s clear not many people realise there are over 1 million people who live in China who are neither Chinese nor Asian ,seriously people cmon you all can’t be that dumb
Breaking news! Australians must pash every Asian during Wuhan flu scare to prove they're not racist
Then how does a person know which Chinese are visiting and who is resident ... only option they have to isolate them all in order to be certain
Don’t forget. China’s order our politicians to repent when our politicians spoke for Uighur & Hong Kong. Care for Wuhan people’s welfare. China however should not hijack political sympathy and ditch their responsibilities toward its own people & ongoing heartaches.
When is it right to consider China as a strategic adversary and ethnically Chinese paper Australians as a 5th column? Please tell us 'paper-of-record'.
Totally agree On a different note our medical professionals are loosing credibility very quickly when they said the virus cannot be airborne when biggest study from Chinese experts (where the shit is going down) and the UK both say it can be an airborne virus.
An unusual health conference..not much news on the health but racism ... racism is disgusting.Good to look after people’s mental health as we don’t need people being stigmatised or attacked ..that’s worse than any virus ..it’s a virus of the heart .
BoycottChina ChinaVirus
A rise in what now? Shut up wumai.
It’s less “racism” and more “fear” I’d say. I can imagine Asians feeling they are being treated differently but how much of that is perceived rather than real.
As Chinese, I dont think travel ban and isolation is racism, it’s based on health concern and tbh, if Aus has the similar outbreak we would do the same. However, racism actions do exist.
Confected BS to keep the cultural Marxist social justice Lefties in a job. Australia is the least racist country in the world.
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Kind of makes you wonder why it was released. The culprit works for those with the cure & the cause.
All he said is “don’t be racist” and then half the people in replies do the dial up internet screech
And how exactly, are these racist attitudes being manifested? Heaven forbid, some people might make jokes.
FO. only you propaganda machines spout racism.
With out Chinese, Aust. economy will be in deep shit.
So if there is an outbreak here. You don't think they would be avoiding us? 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
The ABCSBS will always push the racist agenda
If Australia's chief medical officer thinks people r avoiding Chinese instead of avoiding people who might be carrying the virus, he should go. People are going to avoid ANYone whom they suspect of being contagious, regardless of ethnicity!! SBS, you might try the hard questions
Who made this fool authority over what we can and can't say or think? It is perfectly natural to protect your own in-group from outside threats, and few things bring out our instincts more than the disease and sickness. No open borders and no corona-virus threat, this is a fact!
The main group staying away from Asian restaurants are ................Asians. An odd form of racism.
And have a look at some of your replies for the apologists and trolls
Luckily it’s fake news and just leftist media race baiting again.
people have legitimate concerns about Chinese nationals spreading this virus it's got fook all to do with racism & everything to do with them babarically eating anything that moves & then some, I mean what kind of heartless bomberclat eats a Pangolin?
This is the secondary virus spread by misinformation & bigotry.
Is it racist to notice trends amougst population groups?
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