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Sales at Chinese Restaurants Plummet Following Coronavirus Panic
- Thread starter ChristopherDX
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- COVID
No I'm talking about people who were doing that yesterday
I know given the state of race relations these days that its easy to come out with the pitchforks, but Im Chinese American (Hong Kong) and my family and I have been staying away from chinese markets and restaurants. Im sure theres racism partly involved in this, but mostly its paranoia and being extra cautious.
The ridiculous thing about this all is that it's not like Chinese restaurants are importing their food from China or anything. Most restaurants here buy locally.
Same in Melbourne. Old established restaurant closing temporarily due to COVID panic
I feel bad for the community being hit by irrational fear
Beloved Chinatown restaurant closes as customers stay away over coronavirus fears
Melbourne institution Shark Fin House has closed and other Little Bourke Street restaurants are teetering as customers stay away over disease fears.www.theage.com.au
I was going to post this too. It's the same in Box Hill too, bunch of weird paranoia.
This was what I thought the case must be, in Canada I've only seen Chinese Canadians wearing masks out of caution.
Meh, not just Americans.
Canadian here and I see plenty of stealth and not so stealth racism here. Fear of an untreatable virus brings the worst out of people to say dumb racist shit.
The last thing I want is to hear that some of my favorite places close in Montreal's Chinatown just because of this.
I don't usually eat out, period... but I think I'll go out a bit more, just to give them some business and check out the state of things.
I don't usually eat out, period... but I think I'll go out a bit more, just to give them some business and check out the state of things.
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yeah I don't know why people have taken that route to me it's just stupid people
NCL banned all citizens of China from its cruises, no matter their country of residence (US green card holders excepted).
Paranoia over logic.
As dumb as that sounds I could totally believe that happening.
you mean by people who may be linked to it, by which you mean skin colour that may be linked to it, by which you probably mean racism
i'll try to remember that white people are just rationally connecting the dots when i need to cover my mouth and sneeze and they move away from me, a korean person, because there is a slightly higher chance i have come into contact with a chinese person than a white person would (probably based on my skin colour)
Like goddamn, how is avoiding Asian people because you're extremely paranoid about coronavirus functionally different from avoiding Asian people because you're frothing at the mouth about the yellow peril? The end result is the fucking same and it's bullshit people are trying to excuse that.
like for all the talk about how scary this disease is and how the carriers are asymptomatic it's a little weird how the only people right now being targeted for the appearance of sickness are asian people. you'd think these people would be avoiding eating out in general! never know who'll cough into your food after all.
nah just typical paranoia, nothing else going on there
nah just typical paranoia, nothing else going on there
I thought concerns about packages was ridiculous at first but coronaviruses can live for nine days on surfaces, so I don't know.
Unfortunately few use the resource for betterment, most just use the internet for fixing their boredom by looking at silly pictures.
This is incredibly dumb, but not at all surprising.
Panda express probably isn't considered fully Chinese food by Americans.
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What's sad is it's my Chinese friends and coworkers avoiding Chinese establishments l, especially the popular ones. Traffic is down significantly in my town.
Unfortunately it ain't just because of racism, Chinese Americans are also dodging going too to avoid being around people who have been to China recently
shit like this makes people dumb and irrational, story as old as time
shit like this makes people dumb and irrational, story as old as time
You can't blame them, the coronavirus news came right after chinese new year, and chinese new year is when millions of people flew out of Wuhan to visit their relatives in other countries.
They know if they visit chinese establishments they will bound to come in contact with other chinese people who brought their china relatives to eat there or at least came in contact.
Yeah same thing happening in Melbourne. A big chinese restaurant closed down already because of this (posted on the 1st page) and there is an instagram page that was created to share restaurants that are struggling (specifically for this dumb reason) so that people go out to support them. I feel bad for all the business owners and staff impacted by this irrational fear.
I always laugh when I see this video of a proud white nationalist getting in to his philosophy over some delicious Chinese food with Eddie Huang
The way he devours the food while spewing his racist diatribe in the same breath...just amazing...
In Toronto I've been told sitdown customer traffic in China/Chinese food restaurants are way down, but a lot of people are doing takeout/delivery instead. Specialized dining like hotpot has not been doing well.
American/Chinese food has always been takeout/delivery or buffet situation. From what I've heard there has not been a decrease in traffic at buffets.
I'm in Canada, I've also witnessed a ton of racism and I'm not even remotely East-Asian.
The cut to the restaurant worker with the smirk on his face says it all