Posted on 09/19/2022 9:10:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
BEIJING, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A senior Chinese health official advised people to avoid contact with foreigners to prevent monkeypox infection after the first known case of the virus on mainland China was reported.
"To prevent possible monkeypox infection and as part of our healthy lifestyle, it is recommended that 1) you do not have direct skin-to-skin contact with foreigners," Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the China Center for Disease Control and Prevention posted on his official Weibo page on Saturday.
Wu also called for people to avoid such contact with people who have been abroad within the past three weeks as well as all "strangers", as he cautioned vigilance.
His post was widely shared across social media over the weekend, but the comments section under his initial post were disabled on Sunday and in the early hours of Monday in Beijing.
Some, who commented on forwarded or screenshot versions of his post, questioned why foreigners in China, many of whom are long-term residents and have not left recently due to COVID-19 barriers, were considered more dangerous than Chinese people.
Wu did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment on this sent to his social media account on Monday.
The southwestern city of Chongqing recorded a monkeypox virus infection on Friday in an individual who arrived from abroad, marking mainland China's first known monkeypox infection amid the recent global outbreak of the virus.
The infected person was a 29-year-old Chinese national who flew to Chongqing on Sept. 14 from Spain, the Center for Disease Control said later.
The risk of transmission was low as the person was put in quarantine upon arrival in Chongqing, the municipal health commission said in a statement. All close contacts were isolated and put under medical observation.
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“It’s good to open the country’s door, but we can’t just let everything in,” one Weibo user wrote.
Several drew parallels to the wave of xenophobia and violence Asians overseas faced at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic... and don't call it "Wuhan Flu"!
“This is a bit like when the pandemic began when some people overseas avoided any Chinese people they saw out of fear,” a Weibo user wrote.
“I don’t believe these two things have any scientific basis, they are too broad and will exacerbate public panic.”
Where is the uproar from global progressives proclaiming this warning as disgustingly bigoted, xenophobic, racist, and homophobic?
Remember, it's not racist when 'they' do it... and never, ever, criticize China!
From what I’ve read, “touching” isn’t really the issue here.
Don’t lick ‘em and don’t stick ‘em.
(Except for where God designed ‘em!)
Practice suggestion for training: have monkeypox cooties game replace dodgeball immediately. eeeeeewwww
But yes, by and large, Asians are racially prejudiced.
Then for what other reason should one touch a foreigner - if not to reduce monkeypox risk?
Regards,
Maybe Xi doesn’t want to deal with woke homosexuals, so he put out this warning to keep homosexuals from sleeping with American homosexuals.
We don't talk about China!
One of my best buds from Stanford is in Japan.
UNTIL THIS WEEK, no foreigners can visit Japan UNLESS they are in a tour group AND accompanied by a govt rep, PLUS you have to submit your daily itinerary so the Japs know where you go, which is damn North korea commie nonsense. The Japs blame foreigners for the spike in covid cases but this anti foreigner visa rule has been in place since March so they cant blame foreigners any more.
I have never felt even remotely compelled to go up and touch some random foreigner, anyway.
Is that actually A Thing?
Riding trains in Asia is a touching adventure.
*One Crow On The Orient Express
Who here remembers Italy’s “Hug a Chinese person” back in about January or February 2020?
Kaiser DiBlasio said “Go to Chinatown...hug a Chinaman”
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